Conversations

Spanning the 2012–2013 academic year, Music & Public Life is a series of events, lectures, exhibitions, and courses celebrating Wesleyan’s rich musical cul- ture and examining the role music plays in public life arou…

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 exist…

Michael Lynton, chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment, visited Wesleyan in the spring to talk to students interested in working in the film and television industry at a luncheon arranged by …

By David Low ’76 In his latest book, A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government (Princeton University Press), Professor of English and American Studies Sean McCann examines 20th–century Ameri…

Author Wells Tower ’96 garnered rave reviews across the country for his first book, the short story collectionEverything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Farrar Straus Giroux), when it was published in March. The book was fea…

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 …

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…