Essay Epidemic The Virus and the Martians By Mike Jay In H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, an all-conquering civilization had no defense against a humble microbe. More
Essay States of War The Persian Way of War By Tom Holland Unlike the Greeks, Xerxes viewed war as more than a simple matter of strategy. Rather, it was a means of flaunting global mastery. More
Essay Ways of Learning Academic Virtue By Stanley Fish What is the job of higher education and what is it that those who teach in colleges and universities are trained and paid to do? More
Essay Family Working Arrangement By Justin Smith-Ruiu Marriage as we know it today is a very recent invention—one that has very little in common with the unions of old. 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 Rivalry & Feud Love’s Labors Lost By Jayne Anne Phillips The resolution of America’s best-known feud. More
Essay Migration The Right to Leave By Stephanie DeGooyer Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of open migration. But who qualified as a refugee? More
Essay Revolutions No Smoke for Camilo By Garret Keizer Can one be a Christian and a revolutionary? Consider the case of Camilo Torres Restrepo, and the meaning of liberation theology. More
