Essay Crimes & Punishments Law & Order By Michael Dirda A reconsideration of Aeschylus’ The Oresteia. More
Essay Death Mournful Creatures By Virginia Morell Humans may be the only animals who understand our mortality, but when it comes to grieving, we are not so unique. More
Essay Disaster The Anomaly of Barbarism By John Gray The brutality of Islamist terrorism has many precedents. More
Essay Medicine Great Expectations By Noga Arikha Medicine was once a humanistic endeavor, an art as well as a science. Today both doctors and patients fail to see that we are more than just our bodies. More
Essay Foreigners Enemy Aliens By Andrea Pitzer The life of Austrian painter Paul Cohen-Portheim and the forgotten history of World War I internment camps. More
Essay Food The Imperial Kitchen By Jason Goodwin Ottoman cuisine developed over centuries as the imperial center of an empire of food. More
Essay Technology Prometheus’ Toolbox By Adrienne Mayor Human life as technology from Greek mythology to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. More
Essay Climate In the Shadow of Caesar By Kyle Harper On the volcanic eruption that set an ominous stage for the death throes of the Roman Republic. More
