This Emperor Had Clothes
History has been kind to Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome from 161-180 A.D. Born to a patrician…
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Crime and the Criminologists
Since its inception as an academic discipline, criminology has concerned itself first and foremost…
A Lexicon for the Linguistically Curious
Ever wonder what the six teeth on all Venetian gondolas signify? (The six districts of Venice.) Or…
Kicking and Screaming Against America and Israel
In the 1970s, after the Six-Day War had time to sink in, an impressive number of Western academics,…
Membership Has Its Privileges
London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious, by historian Seth Alexander Thévoz, is the rare book…
There Has Always Been Politics at the Kennedy Center
Hardly a day goes by without news of some performers performatively announcing that they'll…
Medicine’s Descent Into Madness
The Minnesota chapter of White Coats for Black Lives, a medical student group, greeted the October…
To Accept the Things I Cannot Change
Menstrual cycles are not an illness, and medicating them as if they are—suppressing the body's…
How the Greatest Comic Collab Came Together
"It wasn't easy, but enthusiasm can move mountains," wrote Marvel Comics publisher…
Witness to the Great Unsettling
The poet Marianne Moore is credited with describing what poets do as "the art of creating…
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