Ted Scheinman

Senior Editor, Pacific Standard

Ted Scheinman is a senior editor at Pacific Standard and has written for the New York Times, Playboy, and Slate. His first book of nonfiction is forthcoming via Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2016.

Written by Ted Scheinman

A painting of eight men examining skulls and bones on a table, with one of them in a white coat holding a tool by a skull.

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History

What lies beneath

From Piltdown to Mormon seer stones, prehistory has always beckoned the trickster, since bad science makes for good stories

Ted Scheinman

Three tourists in sunhats taking a selfie at the pyramids with other visitors and a green landscape in the background

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Art

The Grand Tour, 2.0

Can today’s travel deliver on the promise of the Grand Tour – or is the idea of edifying travel utterly bankrupt?

Ted Scheinman