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 Disaster The Anomaly of Barbarism By John Gray The brutality of Islamist terrorism has many precedents. 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 Scandal Exquisite Scandal By Nancy Lemann Disgrace comes in various forms. Some are better than others. More
Essay Fashion When Women Ruled Fashion By Joan DeJean In the late seventeenth century, haute couture was produced by women, for women. More
Essay Rule of Law The Daimons’ Wisdom By Erica Benner How do you preserve the rule of law when tyranny is on the rise? Lessons from the Florentine republic. 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 Fashion The Climb of Ivy By W. David Marx The styles of the American Ivy League transform the fashions of 1960s Japan. More
Essay Youth The Long Goodbye By Michael Wood A reconsideration of Gustave Flaubert’s A Sentimental Education—and the very idea of growing up. 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
