300 Years of ‘Too Big to Jail’
In Impunity and Capitalism, Trevor Jackson shows how, between about 1690 and 1830, financial crises stopped being crimes and were treated as everyone’s fault and no one’s.
April 20, 2023 issue
The Beautiful Struggle
Several scholars have been recovering the lives and ideas of antebellum Black activists by studying their involvement in early Black newspapers and conventions.
April 20, 2023 issue
Garum Masala
Dramatic archaeological discoveries—including a marble Buddha in Egypt and jars of Mediterranean garum (fish sauce) and olive oil in India—have led scholars to radically reassess the size and importance of the trade between ancient Rome and India.
April 20, 2023 issue
Poor Torvey!
A new production of A Doll’s House starring Jessica Chastain emphasizes that everyone in Ibsen’s play suffers under the binding ties of patriarchy.
April 6, 2023
Special Correspondent
As a public man, John le Carré was a model of probity and rectitude; in his private life, he was not above double-dealing.
April 20, 2023 issue
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