The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, c. 1835. © The Philadelphia Museum of Art / Art Resource.

Disaster

Volume IX, Number 2 | spring 2016

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Shock and Awe

Lewis H. Lapham

Pressure Drop

Simon Winchester

The Anomaly of Barbarism

John Gray

Katastrofa

Aleksandar Hemon

Human Error

Jennifer Jacquet

Solidarity and Survival

Garret Keizer

Map

Survival of the Fittest

Miscellany

Risk calculation.

Concealing brown.

Brimstone and fire.

Book-burning.

Glaciers.

Mineralogy.

Goodbye, locusts.

The scapegoat.

End of the world.

Oxygen catastrophe.

Charley to Eloise.

Great Famine.

Act of God.

Bomb proof.

They hadn’t noticed.

The barbershop.

Henry James.

Altar of anxiety.

Like any other town.

Never take no cutoffs.

Voices In Time

Policy Brief

1260 | Japan

Want of Foresight

1847 | Rutland, VT

Heavenly Compulsion

c. 800 BC | Britain

Water Over the Dam

1889 | St. Louis, MO

Aboard the Titanic

1912 | Atlantic Ocean

Sight Lines

1759 | Glasgow

Devil of Destruction

c. 1897 | Russia

Grim Reaping

c. 1875 | Walnut Grove, MN

Apocalypse Now

95 | Patmos

The Human Response

1906 | Palo Alto, CA

Annus Horribilis

1666 | London

Sheep to Slaughter

1874 | Wessex

Goodbye to All That

2100 | Rome

Superfluous Torment

c. 65 | Rome

Onward to Armaggedon

2015 | Syria

Into the Breach

1915 | Chicago

Fear and Trembling

1692 | Port Royal

Charts and Graphs

The Great Deluge

Katrina X-Codes

Aftershocks

Chronicles of Disaster Foretold

Scapegoats

Strangers Come to Town

Sheltered Lives

Left Behind

Madding Crowds

Contributors

Conversations

Bernard Mandeville & Angelina Jolie

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DÉjÀ Vu

Love Is Dead

2018:

Woman announces she is divorcing her pirate ghost husband.

1926:

Man sues wife for adultery with a ghost.

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