Alexander Laban Hinton ’85
It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the U.S. (NYU Press, 2021)
Although the election of Donald Trump in 2016 came as a surprise to many, it wasn’t a shock f…
I write this column as we approach the last week of fall semester classes. What a term it has been! We arrived in Middletown in late summer as the Delta variant was surging in different parts of the country, and although…
I have a confession to make: I missed Arrival Day this year.
It’s always notable because of what it represents: new faces, new hope, a new start. This year, however, was more poignant than ever, as it wasn’t just fres…
It was with personal bemused interest and irony that I read the article Embracing Unpredictability in your latest issue. Because this was not the first time that someone at Wesleyan endeavored to apply computer code…
I read with both admiration and sadness Wesleyan magazine’s article on the life and recent death of Professor Christina Crosby, A Hard Life, Well Lived. For reasons I’ll explain, I had no idea she was at the school despi…
My family has broad roots at Wesleyan. My brother Brad was a Wesleyan athlete in the ’70s, I earned my MALS at Wesleyan when Wesleyan professors still elevated the landscape of that program, my youngest son graduated with a degree in Creative Writing and Economics in ’18, and two other sons—both teachers—have studied in th…