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ARTICLES
Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity
The first code of conduct during warfare, created by a Civil War–era Prussian immigrant, reflected ambiguities we struggle with to this day
By David Bosco
Dreaming of a Democratic Russia
Memories of a year in Moscow promoting a post-Soviet political process, an undertaking that now seems futile
By Sarah E. Mendelson
Cuss Time
By limiting freedom of expression, we take away thoughts and ideas before they have the opportunity to hatch
By Jill McCorkle
Balanchine’s Cabinet
A young woman wins a drawing and learns to give and to receive
By Ann Hagman Cardinal
Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity
The first code of conduct during warfare, created by a Civil War–era Prussian immigrant, reflected ambiguities we struggle with to this day
By David Bosco
Dreaming of a Democratic Russia
Memories of a year in Moscow promoting a post-Soviet political process, an undertaking that now seems futile
By Sarah E. Mendelson
Cuss Time
By limiting freedom of expression, we take away thoughts and ideas before they have the opportunity to hatch
By Jill McCorkle
Balanchine’s Cabinet
A young woman wins a drawing and learns to give and to receive
By Ann Hagman Cardinal
Confluences
As a beloved uncle makes his final journey in the wilderness, a new life begins
By Jennifer Sinor
DEPARTMENTS
editor's note
tuning up
Sign Language
At their best, pictograms tell us clearly where to go and what to do; at their worst, things can get interesting
By Charles Trueheart
poetry
anniversaries
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fiction
commonplace book
Book essay
Souls Hungering After Meaning
In Aegypt, John Crowley's just-completed four-book masterwork, ordinary people bear a faint symbolic glow through real and mythological realms
By Michael Dirda
book reviews
The Work of Death
How the Civil War changed forever Americans’ relationship with mortality
By Ernest B. Furgurson
Subjectivity Is All
Using a lifetime of colorful examples to define the undefinable
By Robert Campbell
Latin’s Eminent Career
Is the language of empire, the church, scholarship, and Europe nearing retirement?
By A. E. Stallings
A Long Walk in the New World
Of 300 Spaniards sent to settle Florida, only four survived