Winter 2013 Issue

Articles

A New Birth of Reason

Susan Jacoby

Robert Ingersoll, the Great Agnostic, inspired late-19th-century Americans to uphold the founders’ belief in separation of church and state

On Friendship

Edward Hoagland

The intimacies shared with our closest companions keep us anchored, vital, and alive

Our Imperiled World

Owen Gingerich

It took billions of years to make the earth habitable for humans. A distinguished astronomer warns the United Nations how quickly that can be reversed

Water in the Empty Part of the Map

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Sierra Bellows

The treacherous quest for the source of the Nile was the downfall of John Hanning Speke

Survival Skills at a School in LA

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Anne P. Beatty

Street killings of students are so familiar in South Central that kids practice their own grim rituals

A Song for Molly

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Jeremy Bernstein

In which I tell how I fell hard for a dog, why I have problems with women, and what I know about Ludwig Wittgenstein

Fiction

Wait and See

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Edith Pearlman

Denial

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David Huddle

Poetry

Old Gods and Young Ghosts

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Langdon Hammer

Arts

Eviction Noticed

Bruce Falconer

Gentrification in Berlin shutters a bombed-out building where artists had squatted since the Wall came down