CONVERSATIONS: A Fresh Look at Hoover and FDR

2009 Issue 2June 29, 2009September 29, 2014

CONVERSATIONS: A Fresh Look at Hoover and FDR

Many people think that Herbert Hoover took a hands-off approach to the Great Depression and that FDR embraced deficit spending. Not so, says Professor of Economics and CSS Tutor Richard Adelstein. By William Holder ’75 The dramatic financial crisis that confronted President Barack Obama when he to…

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Ask the Crowd

Jonathan Spector ’78, chief executive officer of the Conference Board, has a story he likes to tell that contains a revolutionary message for American business. A mining company called Goldcorp had worked an area until …

2008 Issue 4December 20, 2008April 28, 2014

Microscopic Puzzle

WELL BEFORE CHARLES DARWIN WROTE THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, the concept of “species” seemed clear enough. Put simply, species don’t interbreed. Oak trees beget other oak trees with, at most, minor genetic changes over long p…

2008 Issue 4December 20, 2008April 28, 2014

Unigo Takes on College Guidebooks

IN HINDSIGHT, THE INTEREST JORDAN GOLDMAN ’04 DEVELOPED in the college admission process seems easy to explain. New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg selected Goldman for a principal role in The Gatekeepers, Steinber…

2008 Issue 3September 29, 2008September 29, 2014

Conversations: Credit Crisis Poses Challenges for IMF

John Lipsky ’68 of the International Monetary Fund discusses the changing role of this key organization. By William L. Holder ’75 The Number Two official of the International Monetary Fund, First Deputy Managing Direct…

2008 Issue 1January 20, 2008February 28, 2014

A Death in Vietnam

FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, JILL HUNTING had never dared to hope that this moment would come. But now she had a map in her hand, an interpreter at her side, and thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, the coordinates where…

2008 Issue 1January 20, 2008April 28, 2014

The Race to Cover Politics

BY WILLIAM HOLDER ’75 · PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY BILL BURKHART, LAUREN VALENTINO ’10, NICK RUSSELL ’08, AND STEVEN JACARUSO THE POLITICO, a newspaper best known to ardent fans of politics through its Web si…

2007 Issue 4December 20, 2007April 28, 2014

A Brighter Stage For Science

ASK ANY SCIENTIST ON CAMPUS HOW THE SCIENCES AT WESLEYAN STACK UP AGAINST OTHER LIBERAL ARTS INSTITUTIONS, and you will hear an exclamation that our peers aren’t even in the same league. A lot of data exists to support …

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007April 28, 2014

A Voice For Immigrants

TOURISTS FLOCK TO NASHVILLE FOR GRAND OLE OPRY SHOWS that have defined the city as the capital of country music since 1925. Downtown, in the Tennessee statehouse, a different spectacle has provoked considerable attention…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007April 28, 2014

Vineyard Havens

JEFF MORGAN ’75 POURS A TASTE OF HIS COVENANT WINE at a picnic table in the backyard of his home in California’s Napa Valley. It is an outstanding cabernet, highly rated by both Wine Spectator and the hugely influential …