The Public "I"

I am of two minds about "Typhoid Mary". The officials could not prove in court that Mary Mallon was spreading typhoid fever. That...

I doubt that you have ever heard of George Soper, but he is the perfect example of the ways that new technology and new ways of thinking pr...

I think Gaius Caligula was the stupidest Roman Emperor of them all. According to Tacitus, who was never wrong, after having bee...

I lived in Manhattan for six years and remained only vaguely aware that the East River is not a river. It is a tidal race, the southern arm...