Essay Freedom Our Medical Liberties By Nadja Durbach The aftermath of a nineteenth-century vaccination mandate. More
Essay Democracy A Story of Use and Abuse By Arlene W. Saxonhouse Athenian democracy in the political imagination. More
Essay Religion Church & State in America By Elisabeth Sifton The Founding Fathers approached the church-state conundrum with an intellectual clarity that was characteristic of their times. More
Essay Memory The Sensitive Plant By Virginia Morell The two-hundred-year search for botanical memory. More
Essay Revolutions Market Corrections By Orlando Figes “Is this what we made the revolution for?” Examining the origins and legacy of the New Economic Policy. More
Essay Medicine Course of Illness By Iain Bamforth Reconsidering an epic of illness—Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. More
Essay Education Schoolboy, Where Are You Going? By Moudhy Al-Rashid Scribal education in the ancient Mesopotamian tablet house. More
Essay Lines of Work Treasure Hunt By Alain de Botton A person’s vocation has become more than a job—it should transform us into who we are. More
Essay Education A Speculative Endeavor By Eleni Schirmer Education has become an investment. But what are its returns? More
