Jay Baron Nicorvo

As with the science supporting climate change, confirmation of masculine weakness is capable of inspiring stubborn cases of denial.

Some seventy-two years from the last American execution for desertion, the firing squad is a tough-guy pantomime for hacks and hams.

Purification does little good for political history. For a long while, we in the West have awarded the sash proclaiming World’s First Democracy to ancient Athens. But as imperial power loosens its insistent white fist—in fits and starts—our understanding also opens. Maybe ...