The Monster in Their Midst
Jean-Claude Romand, whose horrific murder spree shook France in 1993, has just left prison for a monastery. How can you tell whether a master of deception has really changed?
Michael Maor
Holocaust survivor who joined the Mossad and helped convict Adolf Eichmann
The Great Speed Forward
With the world’s fastest trains, China leaves the world in the dust
Ferry Tale
At 120 m.p.h., the AirFish 8 flies like an engine-powered albatross
Sexagenarian and the City
Candace Bushnell re-invents her invented self
Paint Chips
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Robot
Silicon Island
The Google elite jet-ski their way to saving the Earth
Head Case
Our gadget columnist tests a brain-enhancement device
Should the Rich Be Allowed to Buy the Best Genes?
A letter from Quebec City and parts west …
Where’s the Beef?
Veganistas declare war on the faux-meat movement
Norman Stone
Waspish, iconoclastic British historian was a man of the right in a field of mostly left-wingers