Toward a More Human-Centered Future of Work

2021-2022 Winter IssueJanuary 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…

2021-2022 Winter IssueSeptember 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…

2020 Issue 2September 24, 2020

No Place Like Home

Through archival photographs, maps, portraits, and drawings, a new book traces four centuries of Middletown history, foc…

2020 Issue 2September 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…

2020 Issue 2September 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…

2020 Issue 1May 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…

2020 Issue 1May 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…