Essay Politics The Woman Who Would Be King By Kara Cooney The extraordinary rise and reign of Hatshepsut. More
Essay Trade Maken Engelond Gret Ayeyn By Paul Strohm How the contest between free trade and protectionism sparked fervor and unrest in medieval England. More
Essay Education Schoolboy, Where Are You Going? By Moudhy Al-Rashid Scribal education in the ancient Mesopotamian tablet house. More
Essay About Money Disaster at Dunkirk: A Nightmare Fantasy By Ian Kershaw A fictional reimagining of one of Hitler’s most fateful decisions. More
Essay Swindle & Fraud We Buy Broken Gold By Clancy Martin Why would a wealthy diamond merchant in a three-thousand-dollar suit want to cheat me out of a hundred bucks’ worth of gold? More
Essay Book of Nature Funhouse Goddess By D. Graham Burnett It has never been easy to decipher what nature is trying to tell us, but that hasn’t stopped us from filling in the blanks. A look at the sexual politics of natural law theories. More
Essay Eros Fear and Loathing By Dagmar Herzog How the Kinsey Reports forever altered America’s sexual landscape—and not for the better. More
Essay Travel Take Nothing, Leave Nothing By Simon Winchester How I came to be banned from the world’s most remote island, Tristan da Cunha. More
Essay Scandal The Cleopatra’s Nose of 1914 By Jack Beatty The story of the Caillaux affair—a murdered newspaper editor, a web of adultery, and the road to World War I. More
