Essay Technology Prometheus’ Toolbox By Adrienne Mayor Human life as technology from Greek mythology to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. More
Essay Animals One of Us By John Jeremiah Sullivan Can animals think or feel, experience joy or sadness? Can they know their own existence? More
Essay Discovery How to Cross a Field of Snow By Robert Moor A primer for reconnoitering the unknown. 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 Medicine Early Islamic Medicine By Jonathan Lyons The history of Western medicine owes much to its encounters with the medieval Muslim world, yet this debt seems destined to go unrecognized and unrepaid. More
Essay Rule of Law Land of the Lawless By Ralph Nader How power in America has turned the rule of law into a mere myth. More
Essay The City Dickens in Lagos By George Packer In Nigeria, modernity hasn’t yet begun to solve the problems of people thrown together in the urban cauldron. More
Essay Time Time After Time By John Crowley It’s possible to live in more than one time, more than one history of the world, without feeling a pressing need to reconcile them. More
