Essay Travel Nowhere Need Be Foreign By Pico Iyer What should travel writing look like in a world where the global and local are more indistinguishable than ever? More
Essay The Future Buying Tomorrow By Jennifer Szalai The future has become a financial fetish, sliced into probable outcomes to be calculated and bet upon. More
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Essay Politics The Great Rift By Jeffrey Gettleman Jeffrey Gettleman on the 2007 Kenyan election crisis, and why in Kenya all politics is tribal. More
Essay Time The Grand Illusion By Jim Holt Does time have a future? Yes, but how much of a future depends on what the ultimate fate of the cosmos turns out to be. More
Essay The Future Quack Prophet By Colin Dickey The prophecies of Nostradamus were cryptic and garbled—but they also let us see what we wanted to see. More
Essay Intoxication Players Club By Rebecca Lemon From Falstaff to Cassio, intoxication to addiction, a brief history of Shakespeare and alcohol. More
Essay Magic Shows Healing Spirits By Daniel Mason The uneasy relationship between magic and medicine. More
Essay The City Waiting for Goffman By Michael Dirda There are few better interpreters of modern metropolitan life than sociologist Erving Goffman. More
Essay States of War Imperial Hubris: A German Tale By Fritz Stern War, Wilhelm II, and the consequences of leadership. More
