Stories by benbreen

How drug companies triggered an opioid crisis a century ago

Swipe Left: Privacy Practices of Online Dating Apps

The Strangely Revealing Debate Over Viking Couture

Loulan Kingdom

Renaissance Imitations of Arabic Script (2010)

Viking Age script deciphered – mentions ‘Allah’ and ‘Ali’

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: A Review (2009)

A Refugee in Puerto Rico, 1942: Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Burden of Archives

Barbarian Virtues

Cagot: a persecuted and despised minority found in the west of France

A President Felled by an Assassin and 1880s Medical Care (2006)

Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)

The Present Value of the Distant Future in the Early-Modern Past (2013) [pdf]

Hunt and House: Depictions of Medieval Life in German Playing Cards (2016)

‘Chain of Yogis’: A Persian Manuscript in the Mackenzie Collection

Nassim Nicholas Taleb vs. Historians

John Gregory Bourke’s “Scatalogic Rites of All Nations” and the American West

Twenty-First-Century Alchemists (2016)

On the Pinkster King and the King of the Kongo: An Interview with Jeroen Dewulf

Luso-Asian cryptozoology or early modern zoology?

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