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Giving Up the Ghost

The eternal allure of life after death

Head Cases

From hypothetical situations imagined by U.S. Supreme Court justices during oral arguments presented in the 2013 term. Compiled by Viviane Fairbank.

Our Town

by Ariel Sabar,

How Roger Barker made Oskaloosa, Kansas, his laboratory

The woman who felt no fear

by Justin S. Feinstein,

The wearin’ of the mean

by Harper’s Staff,

Out of control

by Celia Farber,

AIDS and the corruption of medical science

The No-Futures Market

by Harper’s Staff,

From a series of “confidential case histories” of AIDS patients prepared in June by Life Partners, a Waco, Texas, company. The company acts as an agent for investors seeking to…

Obstacles and desire

by Adam Phillips,

From the mouths of babes to a jail cell

by Dorothy Rabinowitz,

Child abuse and the abuse of justice

Freud and his own patients

by Donald M. Kaplan,

The Jet-Propelled Couch

by Robert Mitchell Lindner,

Part II: Return to Earth