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In the year 564 b.c., a pankratiast named Arrichion stepped into the ring at the Olympic games. Pankration was a nasty mélange of wrestling and boxing, very popular with the…

The Tale of the Tape

by Lili Anolik,

The miracle of Straight Life

Badlands

by Vladimir Pozner,

From diary entries made during a 1936 visit to America by Vladimir Pozner (1905–1992), a French novelist and screenwriter, included in his travelogue The Disunited States, published last month for…

Phony Capitalism

by Joseph Stiglitz,

By Joseph Stiglitz, adapted from a white paper published in May by the Roosevelt Institute, where he is chief economist. Stiglitz received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Tramp Stamp

From the more than one hundred terms incorporating “slut” that have been filed for trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

William Deresiewicz on Excellent Sheep

by Trevor Quirk,

William Deresiewicz discusses the miseducation of the American elite

Francis and the Nuns

by Mary Gordon,

Is the new Vatican all talk?

The Octopus and Its Grandchildren

by Rebecca Solnit,

When an 1882 cartoon in San Francisco’s Wasp newspaper depicted the Southern Pacific Railroad as an octopus with the whole state of California in its far-reaching tentacles, it launched an…

Untitled

by Max Whittaker,

Beretta Homes and Gardens

From a handgun-storage guide published on Guns.com in May. The firearms manufacturer Beretta, originally cited as a collaborator, retracted its affiliation with the guide soon after it appeared.

War Games

by Brian Turner,

By Brian Turner, from My Life as a Foreign Country, out next month from W. W. Norton. Turner, a veteran of the Iraq war, is the author of two books…

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