Gluttony from The Seven Deadly Sins, by Pieter Coecke van Aelst, c. 1550. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Frederic R. Coudert Jr., in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Murray, 1957.

Scandal

Volume XIII, Number 2 | spring 2020

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Hidden Agendas

Ron Rosenbaum

The Cleopatra’s Nose of 1914

Jack Beatty

The Woman in Black

Eric Jager

Exquisite Scandal

Nancy Lemann

Map

When You Gotta Go

Miscellany

The humiliating act of thrusting a radish up the anus.

Wait a minute!

Snakes on a train.

Burner account.

Waste not?

Et tu?

Tea spilled.

I don’t know him.

Forever hold your peace.

Doing it for the gram.

Dirt candy.

Too much tunes.

Mummy dearest.

Snitches get ditched.

Fleece racket.

The costs of avoiding scandal.

Empty tanks.

Bible hobby lobbied.

Voices In Time

Oscar Wilde Pleads His Case

1896 | Reading

Conspicuous Consumption

1905 | New York City

Patriot Act

1918 | Eastwold

Gains Ill-Gotten

1906 | Hawarden

False Negatives

1768 | London

Revealed Truths

1802 | Richmond, VA

Apology Tour

c. 1673 | Bath

Lines of Sight

c. 320 BC | Athens

Mixed Motives

324 BC | Athens

Wretched, Wretched Mistake

1813 | Derbyshire

Accruing Interest

1796 | Boston

Aesop’s Nextdoor

c. 600 BC | Greece

Relationship Goals

1855 | London

Real Housewives of the Eighteenth Century

1777 | London

Noxious Fumes

1828 | London

First in War, First in Nepotism

1872 | Washington, DC

Overcorrection

1883 | Moscow

Biding Time

1818 | Paris

What Man Thou Art

1604 | Vienna

For Better or Worse

1879 | Utterden

Opinion Page

1873 | Hartford, CT

Secret Sinning Is No Sin at All

1664 | Paris

Immodest Proposal

1673 | London

Free the Press

1910 | London

Fie on the Beholder

c. 205 | Carthage

Charts and Graphs

Out of Bounds

The Plot Thickens

Evolution of Gossip

Drama Kings and Queens

Literary Fictions

Better Late Than Never

Kids These Days

Defining the Problem

Honey Traps

Contributors

Conversations

Thomas Jefferson & the Parliament of Singapore

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