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

Wait a minute!

The humiliating act of thrusting a radish up the anus.

Too much tunes.

Et tu?

Dirt candy.

Mummy dearest.

The costs of avoiding scandal.

Snitches get ditched.

Tea spilled.

Fleece racket.

Doing it for the gram.

Bible hobby lobbied.

Empty tanks.

I don’t know him.

Waste not?

Burner account.

Forever hold your peace.

Snakes on a train.

Voices In Time

Immodest Proposal

1673 | London

Biding Time

1818 | Paris

Overcorrection

1883 | Moscow

Apology Tour

c. 1673 | Bath

First in War, First in Nepotism

1872 | Washington, DC

Noxious Fumes

1828 | London

Real Housewives of the Eighteenth Century

1777 | London

Lines of Sight

c. 320 BC | Athens

Mixed Motives

324 BC | Athens

Revealed Truths

1802 | Richmond, VA

False Negatives

1768 | London

Gains Ill-Gotten

1906 | Hawarden

Accruing Interest

1796 | Boston

Wretched, Wretched Mistake

1813 | Derbyshire

Free the Press

1910 | London

Fie on the Beholder

c. 205 | Carthage

What Man Thou Art

1604 | Vienna

Opinion Page

1873 | Hartford, CT

Patriot Act

1918 | Eastwold

Relationship Goals

1855 | London

Secret Sinning Is No Sin at All

1664 | Paris

Oscar Wilde Pleads His Case

1896 | Reading

Conspicuous Consumption

1905 | New York City

For Better or Worse

1879 | Utterden

Aesop’s Nextdoor

c. 600 BC | Greece

Charts and Graphs

Literary Fictions

Drama Kings and Queens

The Plot Thickens

Evolution of Gossip

Kids These Days

Defining the Problem

Better Late Than Never

Out of Bounds

Honey Traps

Contributors

Conversations

Thomas Jefferson & the Parliament of Singapore

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The Colosseum, attributed to Robert Eaton, c. 1855.
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Monumental Mistakes

2023:

Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.

c. 1850:

Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.

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