Gluttony from The Seven Deadly Sins, by Pieter Coecke van Aelst, c. 1550. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Frederic R. Coudert Jr., in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Murray, 1957.

Scandal

Volume XIII, Number 2 | spring 2020

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Hidden Agendas

Ron Rosenbaum

The Cleopatra’s Nose of 1914

Jack Beatty

The Woman in Black

Eric Jager

Exquisite Scandal

Nancy Lemann

Map

When You Gotta Go

Miscellany

Doing it for the gram.

Tea spilled.

Et tu?

Dirt candy.

Forever hold your peace.

Mummy dearest.

Too much tunes.

I don’t know him.

Wait a minute!

Snitches get ditched.

Fleece racket.

Snakes on a train.

Burner account.

The costs of avoiding scandal.

Bible hobby lobbied.

Waste not?

Empty tanks.

The humiliating act of thrusting a radish up the anus.

Voices In Time

Aesop’s Nextdoor

c. 600 BC | Greece

Mixed Motives

324 BC | Athens

Revealed Truths

1802 | Richmond, VA

False Negatives

1768 | London

Secret Sinning Is No Sin at All

1664 | Paris

Opinion Page

1873 | Hartford, CT

Oscar Wilde Pleads His Case

1896 | Reading

Gains Ill-Gotten

1906 | Hawarden

Fie on the Beholder

c. 205 | Carthage

Free the Press

1910 | London

First in War, First in Nepotism

1872 | Washington, DC

Biding Time

1818 | Paris

What Man Thou Art

1604 | Vienna

For Better or Worse

1879 | Utterden

Wretched, Wretched Mistake

1813 | Derbyshire

Conspicuous Consumption

1905 | New York City

Real Housewives of the Eighteenth Century

1777 | London

Patriot Act

1918 | Eastwold

Apology Tour

c. 1673 | Bath

Lines of Sight

c. 320 BC | Athens

Noxious Fumes

1828 | London

Overcorrection

1883 | Moscow

Immodest Proposal

1673 | London

Relationship Goals

1855 | London

Accruing Interest

1796 | Boston

Charts and Graphs

Honey Traps

Defining the Problem

Out of Bounds

Evolution of Gossip

Literary Fictions

Kids These Days

The Plot Thickens

Better Late Than Never

Drama Kings and Queens

Contributors

Conversations

Thomas Jefferson & the Parliament of Singapore

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