CONVERSATIONS: Peter Rutland

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

CONVERSATIONS: Peter Rutland

Peter Rutland has mentioned in the past that many Americans know little about the European Union (E.U.), and what they know may be based more on myth than fact. With a major debt crisis threatening the E.U. ́s very existence, we thought it might be a good time to discuss some of these misconceptions…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

Malamut’s Astronomy Draws on Hubble Observations

In the summer of 2010 Craig Malamut traveled to the Easter Islands to study and photograph a rare solar eclipse. Soon after his eclipse observations were completed, NASA used one of his photographs in their official mate…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Trusted Source

During the last six weeks of the 2010 elections, The New York Times, Politico, NPR’s All Things Considered, Bloomberg News, CBS Evening News, ABC News and more than 100 other news media outlets repeatedly referred to one…

2009 Issue 1January 29, 2009September 29, 2014

CONVERSATIONS: Recession in Historial Perspective

Another Great Depression? Richard Grossman, professor of economics, doesn’t think so. By David Pesci Richard Grossman, professor and chair of economics, specializes in economic history, among other areas. He came to We…

2008 Issue 2June 20, 2008April 28, 2014

Working the Blank Canvas

The blank canvas is an object of wistful romance, of hopes and dreams. It waits for color, texture, context—for talent—to transform it into something that has beauty and meaning. People see the finished painting and make…

2008 Issue 1January 29, 2008September 29, 2014

Politics ’08 and Foreign Policy

Wesleyan foreign policy expert Douglas Foyle says that national debate about foreign policy follows the headlines, which is a troubling aspect of our political system. By David Pesci Douglas C. Foyle is the Douglas J…

2006 Issue 3September 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Rainforest Classroom

NORA CONNER ’07 KNEW that “Tropical Ecology” would be wildly different from any other class she’d taken at Wesleyan. Still, she hadn’t expected to wake up and find a tarantula the size of her hand above her bed. “An eve…

2006 Issue 2June 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Front Office Player

ON A COOL OCTOBER NIGHT JUST AFTER A GAME, Jed Hoyer and a friend walked across the field in Yankee Stadium and sat down just beyond the left center field fence to have a few beers with Babe Ruth. Barely two years earli…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Valley of Extremes

IT ALL CAME DOWN TO THE WIND ON VENTIFACT RIDGE. The wind—thousands of years' worth of sand-filled storms and sustained breezes blowing in excess of 50 miles per hour—had carved dramatic features into the solid rocks an…

2005 Issue 3September 20, 2005May 16, 2014

The Trouble with Haiti

It started out as one of the most inspiring stories in human history: slaves rebelled against their masters, fought a long, bloody revolution, and took control of an oppressive nation. But since that auspicious beginning…