Peter C. Baker is a writer in DeKalb, Illinois.
How did “one person, one vote” become the rule for statehouses across the country?
How turning the Murder of Kitty Genovese into a parable erased its particulars.
Robert Neer’s Napalm: An American Biography; Juliette Volcler’s Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon
One anthropologist’s place in his field’s ongoing battle over questions of power, means and ends.
How thrillers inform spycraft, and the fictions that belie them both.