• Freedom to Riot

    Police cars were overturned and shops looted as the mob descended on the city’s central square. Rioters tore the police station’s outer door off its hinges and...

  • Women and Children First

    The infants had been arranged into neat rows, swaddled in aseptic white cloth the way precision instruments would be secured for shipping. Masked, hooded and gloved nurses cautiously moved down the aisle...

My Slate article “Promiscuity is Pragmatic” was selected as the Top Quark in the 3 Quarks Daily Science Prize. I am very grateful to Frans de Waal, the 3 Quarks Daily editors, and everyone who voted for my post.