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

Exquisite Scandal

Nancy Lemann

The Woman in Black

Eric Jager

Map

When You Gotta Go

Miscellany

Snakes on a train.

Fleece racket.

Snitches get ditched.

Burner account.

I don’t know him.

Bible hobby lobbied.

Tea spilled.

Waste not?

Mummy dearest.

Doing it for the gram.

Et tu?

Wait a minute!

The costs of avoiding scandal.

Forever hold your peace.

Dirt candy.

The humiliating act of thrusting a radish up the anus.

Too much tunes.

Empty tanks.

Voices In Time

Secret Sinning Is No Sin at All

1664 | Paris

Accruing Interest

1796 | Boston

Conspicuous Consumption

1905 | New York City

Real Housewives of the Eighteenth Century

1777 | London

For Better or Worse

1879 | Utterden

Mixed Motives

324 BC | Athens

Noxious Fumes

1828 | London

Lines of Sight

c. 320 BC | Athens

False Negatives

1768 | London

Fie on the Beholder

c. 205 | Carthage

First in War, First in Nepotism

1872 | Washington, DC

Free the Press

1910 | London

Wretched, Wretched Mistake

1813 | Derbyshire

Oscar Wilde Pleads His Case

1896 | Reading

Gains Ill-Gotten

1906 | Hawarden

Relationship Goals

1855 | London

Revealed Truths

1802 | Richmond, VA

Overcorrection

1883 | Moscow

What Man Thou Art

1604 | Vienna

Biding Time

1818 | Paris

Aesop’s Nextdoor

c. 600 BC | Greece

Patriot Act

1918 | Eastwold

Immodest Proposal

1673 | London

Apology Tour

c. 1673 | Bath

Opinion Page

1873 | Hartford, CT

Charts and Graphs

Honey Traps

Kids These Days

The Plot Thickens

Evolution of Gossip

Out of Bounds

Better Late Than Never

Literary Fictions

Defining the Problem

Drama Kings and Queens

Contributors

Conversations

Thomas Jefferson & the Parliament of Singapore

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