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

Exquisite Scandal

Nancy Lemann

The Woman in Black

Eric Jager

The Cleopatra’s Nose of 1914

Jack Beatty

Map

When You Gotta Go

Miscellany

Waste not?

Snakes on a train.

Et tu?

Tea spilled.

The costs of avoiding scandal.

Too much tunes.

Empty tanks.

Fleece racket.

Forever hold your peace.

Bible hobby lobbied.

The humiliating act of thrusting a radish up the anus.

Dirt candy.

Snitches get ditched.

I don’t know him.

Wait a minute!

Doing it for the gram.

Mummy dearest.

Burner account.

Voices In Time

Overcorrection

1883 | Moscow

First in War, First in Nepotism

1872 | Washington, DC

Opinion Page

1873 | Hartford, CT

False Negatives

1768 | London

Aesop’s Nextdoor

c. 600 BC | Greece

Lines of Sight

c. 320 BC | Athens

Apology Tour

c. 1673 | Bath

Secret Sinning Is No Sin at All

1664 | Paris

Conspicuous Consumption

1905 | New York City

Gains Ill-Gotten

1906 | Hawarden

Fie on the Beholder

c. 205 | Carthage

Patriot Act

1918 | Eastwold

Biding Time

1818 | Paris

Oscar Wilde Pleads His Case

1896 | Reading

Real Housewives of the Eighteenth Century

1777 | London

What Man Thou Art

1604 | Vienna

Mixed Motives

324 BC | Athens

Revealed Truths

1802 | Richmond, VA

Relationship Goals

1855 | London

Accruing Interest

1796 | Boston

Noxious Fumes

1828 | London

Free the Press

1910 | London

Immodest Proposal

1673 | London

For Better or Worse

1879 | Utterden

Wretched, Wretched Mistake

1813 | Derbyshire

Charts and Graphs

Better Late Than Never

Kids These Days

Defining the Problem

Literary Fictions

Drama Kings and Queens

Honey Traps

Evolution of Gossip

Out of Bounds

The Plot Thickens

Contributors

Conversations

Thomas Jefferson & the Parliament of Singapore

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