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Toward a More Human-Centered Future of Work
Category 2021-2022 Winter IssuePosted on January 18, 2022

Toward a More Human-Centered Future of Work

By Steve Cadigan ’86 Most of the discussion around the future of work today tends to be dismal. It centers on the notion that robots, AI (artificial intelligence), and automation will displace mill…
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Category 2021-2022 Winter IssuePosted on September 10, 2021January 17, 2022

From Uncommon Journeys, Universal Truths: An Interview with Vinod Busjeet ’73

After growing up on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, Vinod Busjeet ’73 arrived in the United States in the fall of 1971—to start his first semester at Wesleyan. At the time, he was one of only a few international st…
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No Place Like Home
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 24, 2020

No Place Like Home

Through archival photographs, maps, portraits, and drawings, a new book traces four centuries of Middletown history, foc…
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Recommended Reading: Books by Barot ’92, Sokol ’93, Schneider ’97, and Others
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 24, 2020

Recommended Reading: Books by Barot ’92, Sokol ’93, Schneider ’97, and Others

Rick Barot ’92 The Galleons: Poems (Milkweed, 2020) In his fourth collection of poetry, for which he won the 2020 Poet…
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“Gandhi and Guerrilla”: Present-Day Echoes of the Mayday Protests
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 17, 2020September 24, 2020

“Gandhi and Guerrilla”: Present-Day Echoes of the Mayday Protests

  Debates over Black Lives Matter tactics and approaches to public dissent have parallels in historic civil diso…
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Lessons from Thoreau, Social-Distancing Pioneer (Sort Of)
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 17, 2020September 24, 2020

Lessons from Thoreau, Social-Distancing Pioneer (Sort Of)

  Bob Pepperman Taylor ’80, P’06 brings a classic text into a contemporary light. In his new book, Lessons fr…
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Good Boy: My Life In Seven Dogs
Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 1, 2020May 3, 2020

Good Boy: My Life In Seven Dogs

Above all, author Jennifer Finney Boylan '80 is interested in storytelling and its capacity (and limitations) in express…
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Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 1, 2020

A Meditation on Loss, Love, and Survival

[caption id="attachment_15757" align="alignleft" width="212"] Run Me to Earth, a novel by Paul Yoon ’02, brings Laos’s difficult history to light.[/caption] While conducting research for his 2017 story collection, The…
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Scenes from Shangri-La, by Michael Yamashita ’71
Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

Scenes from Shangri-La, by Michael Yamashita ’71

Michael Yamashita ’71 (©Michael Yamashita) For more than 35 years, photographer Michael Yamashita ’71 has worked for Na…
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Recommended Reading: Books by Vidich ’72, P’00, ’03; Moezzi ’01; Wiener ’09; and Others
Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 1, 2020May 3, 2020

Recommended Reading: Books by Vidich ’72, P’00, ’03; Moezzi ’01; Wiener ’09; and Others

Paul Vidich ’72, P’00, ’03 The Coldest Warrior (Pegasus, 2020) In Paul Vidich’s latest work of spy fiction, governme…
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