If the first translation of a text on smallpox vaccination in Japan was finished in 1820, how did it take…
We’re heading to the Roman Republic for two stories about women getting their day in court. Asking the gods to put a supernatural hit out on your illicit lover, that’s a-okay according to the Romans. But being a sugar baby? That’s against the law.
This week: the elimination of smallpox is probably one of the greatest medical accomplishments in human history. The vaccine that…
This week, we’re looking at the implosion of the Japanese New Left with a focus on the factional conflicts of…
We’re starting the year off with a civil law case involving some very uncivil language. One of our nation’s most important legal battles over the First Amendment was a battle between a Nyquil-chugging preacher and an American flag diaper-wearing porn publisher. Does the right to free speech protect your right to be really, really gross?
This week, we’re looking at a very different kind of 60s protest movement: an attempt to build a cross-sectarian, non-ideological…
On a lonely island off the coast of North America, one man shot another man’s pig for eating his potatoes. The legal question of who had the right to arrest him nearly upset the fragile peace between two nations.
This week, for the final episode of 2022: the Zenkyoto movement arrives at Japan’s largest private school. Plus: how did…
This week, we’re beginning a month on radical activism in the 1960s with a look at the student uprisings of…
While Japanese officials were investigating a case of illegal baseball betting, they uncovered a shocking secret about the integrity of one of the country’s most famous sports. Who actually runs the world of sumo, and why would some of the most elite athletes in the world feel so much pressure to fix their matches?