Guilty and Insane Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility. Daniel Kriegman 29 Jul 2022 · 19 min read
Lost Soul Behind Bars The untold story of Upheaval, a prison band that recorded one of the most sought-after soul singles of the 1970s. Max Wilson 28 Jul 2022 · 21 min read
The Delia Demolition Why is the Atlantic slinging mud at the 72-year-old author of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ on the eve of the film’s release? Kevin Mims 19 Jul 2022 · 19 min read
Cognitive Distortions How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence. Shuichi Tezuka 18 Jul 2022 · 23 min read
Honorable Men Falcone, Borsellino, and the legacy of Italy’s long and bitter war on organized crime. Maura Cremin 17 Jul 2022 · 20 min read
Why Not Polygamy? Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress? Cheryl Mendelson 28 May 2022 · 18 min read
Roya Hakakian and How to Speak About What No One Wants to Hear I. Roya Hakakian is an American writer from Iran who commands a distinctive ability to speak about large and horrific events in a chipper tone that appears to underplay the horrific quality and, by apparently underplaying, ends up subtly underlining. It is an artful tone. It is cagey, charming, disarming, Paul Berman 27 May 2022 · 33 min read
Get Ready for the Return of the Abortion Novel The abortion novels that proliferated in the late 1960s were filled with characters who are forced by carelessness and circumstance to make the most agonizing of personal choices. Kevin Mims 5 May 2022 · 26 min read
Deterrence After Ukraine—A Critical Analysis On February 24th, Russia invaded Ukraine with the explicit goal of eliminating its existence as an independent country. Why was Russian President Vladimir Putin not deterred by the risk of a response from the West/NATO? This question requires a review of the fundamentals of conventional deterrence, neglected by the Shmuel Bar 24 Mar 2022 · 22 min read
The Transmogrification of Harvey Weinstein I was a good friend of Harvey Weinstein during his early years as a concert promoter, before he became Harvey Weinstein, movie mogul. We subsequently drifted apart, and while Harvey went on to find astronomic success in Hollywood, I worked as the chief psychologist at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Daniel Kriegman 20 Feb 2022 · 36 min read
Autism or Encephalitis? My Son’s Misdiagnosis and Our Family’s Season in Hell One night in August 2021, at around 2am, my husband and I were awakened by the sound of laughter coming from our son’s bedroom down the hall. I went in to check on him. Our five-year-old, “Leo,” was awake and running around the room in circles, plowing into toys S. Stiles 21 Jan 2022 · 18 min read
How D.B. Cooper and the Golden Age of Air Piracy Changed Aviation Fiction Kevin Mims 24 Nov 2021 · 32 min read