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

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Shock and Awe

Lewis H. Lapham

Human Error

Jennifer Jacquet

Solidarity and Survival

Garret Keizer

The Anomaly of Barbarism

John Gray

Katastrofa

Aleksandar Hemon

Pressure Drop

Simon Winchester

Map

Survival of the Fittest

Miscellany

The barbershop.

Like any other town.

Never take no cutoffs.

Concealing brown.

Risk calculation.

Great Famine.

Mineralogy.

Oxygen catastrophe.

The scapegoat.

They hadn’t noticed.

Goodbye, locusts.

Book-burning.

Bomb proof.

End of the world.

Charley to Eloise.

Brimstone and fire.

Altar of anxiety.

Glaciers.

Act of God.

Henry James.

Voices In Time

Want of Foresight

1847 | Rutland, VT

The Human Response

1906 | Palo Alto, CA

Into the Breach

1915 | Chicago

Heavenly Compulsion

c. 800 BC | Britain

Annus Horribilis

1666 | London

Aboard the Titanic

1912 | Atlantic Ocean

Onward to Armaggedon

2015 | Syria

Sheep to Slaughter

1874 | Wessex

Water Over the Dam

1889 | St. Louis, MO

Goodbye to All That

2100 | Rome

Hard as Stones

1864 | Columbia, SC

Grim Reaping

c. 1875 | Walnut Grove, MN

Sight Lines

1759 | Glasgow

Fear and Trembling

1692 | Port Royal

Superfluous Torment

c. 65 | Rome

Devil of Destruction

c. 1897 | Russia

Apocalypse Now

95 | Patmos

Policy Brief

1260 | Japan

Charts and Graphs

Aftershocks

Katrina X-Codes

Scapegoats

The Great Deluge

Madding Crowds

Sheltered Lives

Strangers Come to Town

Chronicles of Disaster Foretold

Left Behind

Contributors

Conversations

Bernard Mandeville & Angelina Jolie

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