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2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

TOWARD A GENTLER DEATH: A Q&A WITH KATY BUTLER ’71

In Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, a New York Times Notable Book of 2013, award-winning journalist Katy Butler ’71 recounted shepherding her parents, Professor Emeritus…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

THE POLICY ENTREPRENEUR, BY GABRIEL POPKIN ’03

One federal program provides health coverage to a fifth of all Americans and more than a third of all child…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

ALL THOSE MINDS LEFT BEHIND, BY JOSEPH J. FINS ’82, MD

From the headlines, it would be easy to think that the totality of health care policy is the fate of Obamacare, the th…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

HEALTHCARE AND RACISM: A TOXIC MIX

Recasting Metabolic Syndrome Associate Professor of Science in Society Anthony Hatch, who has been living with type …

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

MEDICINE AS A MINDFUL PRACTICE: RONALD EPSTEIN ’76 MD, BY DAVID GLENN

One day in 1978, Ronald M. Epstein ’76 lay writhing in pain on a gurney in an empty hallway of an Amsterdam hospital. …

2017 Issue 3December 14, 2017December 12, 2018

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WESLEYAN HISTORY (NOT REALLY…)

To walk Wesleyan’s campus is to be surrounded by history that whispers from buildings. Presidents left their mark (or di…

2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

ORAL HISTORIES, BY CHRISTINE FOSTER

In the 1960s, Wesleyan began to grow from a small college into a somewhat bigger, more diverse university. Scores of you…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

NO PASSING ZONE: AMERICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE

Casey Dinges ’79 and his colleagues at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) developed a report card that …

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

CONFLICT OVER A MODEL OF ISLAMIC PLURALISM

BY PETER GOTTSCHALK Professor of Religion Peter Gottschalk’s research and teaching concentrate on the dynamics of cultural interpretation and conflict in the context of Islamic, Hindu, Christian, and scientific tr…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

THREAT ASSESSMENTS

BY GABRIEL POPKIN ’03 White House Situation Room, May 1, 2011, 4:00 P.M. EDT: Presiden Barack Obama and his inner circle anxiously watch aerial footage of one of the highest-stakes and riskiest operations eve…