Health Care Under Fire
There is a new medical specialty in Syria. Driven by deliberate attacks on doctors, other medical personnel, aid workers, hospitals, and ambulances, this multidisciplinary field covers...
Early Alzheimer’s
A shelf of memory calving into the sealike an Antarctic glacier on TVthese scenes of climate changeheightening the senescencewe try to fathom day by dayas yet...
A Hotter Russia
After Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky and countless ordinary Ukrainians entreated Europe to embargo Russian energy, which has long been central to...
I, the People
Before Hitler and Stalin (and Putin), there was Maximilien Robespierre, the leader of the French Revolution during the period in 1793–1794 known as the Terror. If...
Alban Berg’s Dissonances
On the day before Christmas in 1935, the Austrian composer Alban Berg was pronounced dead in a Viennese hospital for indigents. The cause of death was...
A ‘Puritan Jihadi’
When in 2002 the BBC held a national poll to identify the greatest Briton in history, the tenth place, well below notables like Winston Churchill and...
Where Does It Hurt?
For the sixteenth-century barber-surgeon Ambroise Paré, pain was a deadly liar. When French soldiers returned from battle with shattered limbs on which wounded tissue had already...
Endowed by Slavery
At the end of April, with the release of its “Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery,” Harvard made headlines by...
The Birchers & the Trumpers
During the insurrection at the US Capitol last year, the so-called QAnon Shaman, sporting a painted face and horned cap, sat on the Senate dais and...
