The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, c. 1835. © The Philadelphia Museum of Art / Art Resource.

Disaster

Volume IX, Number 2 | spring 2016

Miscellany

Arthur Schopenhauer referred to insurance as “a public sacrifice made on the altar of anxiety.”

 

It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.

—Margaret Atwood, 2000