This erratic, piecemeal approach will not deliver lasting change. A brick-by-brick dismantling of a high-rise tower cannot shift regulatory cultures and practices. The first law of thermodynamics ...

The Tower of Babel has a surprising parallel in Greek mythology—Otus and Ephialtes’ daring attempt to reach Olympus.

People look at a thwarted building and see what they want to see. In the fifteen-fifties, when Pieter Bruegel the Elder set out to depict the Tower of Babel, he painted a structure that was ...