President’s Letter: Interdisciplinary Education

2018 Issue 3December 6, 2018December 7, 2018

President’s Letter: Interdisciplinary Education

IDEAS is now a minor, and I suspect before too long it will take its place among the interdisciplinary majors offered at the university. I can hardly wait to see what faculty and students make of this addition to our educational offerings.” There is now broad recognition that given the intense inte…

2018 Issue 3December 4, 2018December 7, 2018

Letters: Reflecting on an Interview with Muhammad Ali

Dear Editors: Congratulations on the “Journalism's Brave New World” issue of the magazine. It reminded me of my earli…

2018 Issue 3December 3, 2018December 7, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: Ideas on Design: Dualities

As this magazine has come together, I’ve realized that this issue has been all about dualities—holding in one’s mind two separate, sometimes contrasting things as part of a whole, while still moving forward. Since Sep…

2018 Issue 2September 7, 2018December 12, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: A STETHOSCOPE, A CAMERA LENS, AND A BATPHONE

This issue on journalism and media has felt more personal than most, particularly as we prepared for the retirement of editor Bill Holder ’75. While collecting stories of the journalists profiled in these pages, I’ve bee…

2018 Issue 2September 7, 2018

LETTERS: AN ALLY IN PROF. HATCH, REMEMBERING MANFRED STASSEN, LEADERSHIP IN POPULATION HEALTH

It’s Good To Find An Ally In Associate Professor Hatch It was encouraging to read the Wesleyan magazine article, “Health Care and Racism: A Toxic Mix,” (2018, issue 1) concerning the work of Associate Professor of Sci…

2018 Issue 2September 7, 2018December 12, 2018

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

“Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning prayer,” wrote Georg Friedrich Hegel. “One orients one’s attitude toward the world either by God or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the l…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

The question took me by surprise. I had just finished lecturing to about 75 undergraduates at Peking University on the virtues of American-style pragmatic liberal education. My book Beyond the University: Why Liberal Edu…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: MY FAREWELL COLUMN

Lately I’ve been exploring the devilish complexities of Medicare as I approach my 65th birthday and a time of change in …

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018May 11, 2018

LETTERS

ROLE OF SAYRE (1917) IN AEP ACQUISITION I enjoyed your article on the history of Wesleyan but was disappointed with the rather cursory description of the University’s good fortune derived from the acquisition of the Ame…

2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 30, 2017

LETTERS

COULD THIS BE WHY? Looking back at Wesleyan sports over half a century ago, among the NEICAA champions I remember were broad jumpers Ernie Dunn ’59, Jim Thomas ’61, and Dick Huddleston ’60, miler Steve Paranya ’61, wres…