Essay The City Necropolis By Colin Dickey The corpse has proved to be a bedeviling problem for the city—how do we live with our dead? More
Essay About Money Prometheus Unbound By Jack Weatherford From the invention of coinage to the present day, each technological innovation in currency has further expanded money’s role in our lives. More
Essay Philanthropy Treasure in Heaven By Peter Brown St. Augustine and other early Christians challenged the Roman idea of charity by invoking the ultimate authority—God. More
Essay Magic Shows Healing Spirits By Daniel Mason The uneasy relationship between magic and medicine. More
Essay Music How Deep Is Your Love? By Alison Kinney How Ludwig II’s love for Richard Wagner inspired the world’s greatest work of fan art. More
Essay Book of Nature The Art of Nature By Frederick Turner Human art, fiction, invention, and technology are not unnatural forces that have suddenly erupted into nature, but rather the natural continuation of nature’s own evolutionary processes. More
Essay Ways of Learning Portraits of the Artist By Howard Singerman If today there is no longer any particular set of skills that must be learned in order for one to make art, how does one become an artist? More
Essay The City City of Seeds By Daniel Mason With an influx of people from all over the world, the city can become a hothouse for foreign flora. More
Essay Religion The Courtesy of God By Garret Keizer Never mind does God exist—does the God debate exist? Reexamining the relationship between faith and reason. More
