Stories by pepys

Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518

Killer Queens: When women ran the empire–and their history was preserved by men

Gobblebook: On Lord Byron and Ada Lovelace

Which New York City Borough Would Win an All-Out Civil War?

Suffering, not just happiness, weighs in the utilitarian calculus

In Memory of Isaiah Berlin

The Reuse and Recycling of Woodcuts in 17th-Century English Popular Print

The second-worst poet in English

Thomas Bernhard, Karl Kraus, and Other Vienna-Hating Viennese

Design for plenty: a rich history of social, economic and agricultural ventures

Tom Wolfe, the Art of Fiction No. 123 (1991)

Sovereign Urban Intellectual: How Diogenes Laertius Influenced Renaissance Italy

Bryan Caplan on Learning Across Disciplines

Don’t Blame Phones for Narcissism

City as Character

Archaeologists investigate what life was like after dark in the ancient world

Zombie Lit

Why Do So Many Judges Cite Jane Austen in Legal Decisions?

On Radical Markets

Idle Hands Are the Dreamer's Tools

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