A Very Addictive Thing

In her book, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara described how she spent hours a day trying to help identify the Golden State Killer, who committed dozens of violent crimes in California in the 1970s and 1980s. She admitted, in fact, that her “frenetic searching” of case information—decades after his attacks and to

Rife with Paradoxes

In the seventeenth century the Jesuits placed themselves on the wrong side of history by opposing Galileo’s defense of Copernicus and heliocentrism. Less well known is their stalwart opposition at almost the same time to a much more arcane—but equally seminal—idea. In his book, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, Amir