Taylor Beck is a teacher and writer based in Westport, Connecticut. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Scientific American, and other publications.

Taylor Beck

Cousins Like Us: Black Lives and John Maynard Keynes

Economics and Finance

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Insane

Asylum, Again: Why We Need to Stop Punishing the Mentally Ill

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

Another Kind of Madness

Moody Genes

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Taylor Beck is a teacher and writer based in Westport, Connecticut. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Scientific American, and other publications.