Category 2019 Issue 1Posted on May 20, 2019May 20, 2019More Moneyball, More Math Problems In the movie adaptation of Moneyball, Michael Lewis’s seminal 2003 account of the sabermetrics revolution in baseball, actor Jonah Hill plays a newly-hired member of the Oakland Athletics in charge of…
Category 2019 Issue 1Posted on May 20, 2019May 20, 2019Giving Done Right: Effective Data For Philanthropy Philip Buchanan ’92, the president the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), has some tips on what to look for in an …
Category 2019 Issue 1Posted on May 20, 2019May 20, 2019A Line in the Sand, by John F. Ross ’81 Turning a phrase well is often celebrated in our culture, as is the ability of a painter to capture an expression or a f…
Category 2018 Issue 3Posted on December 6, 2018May 21, 2019The Big Hopper Reveal (video) The 32 students in Professor Voth and Assistant Professor Moller's sections of IDEAS 170 spent half the fall semester cr…
Category 2018 Issue 3Posted on December 6, 2018May 20, 2019IDEAS: Putting the Art in Smart Design Biographer Walter Isaacson—who wrote about Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Steve Jobs—has said, “Those who thriv…
Category 2018 Issue 3Posted on December 5, 2018January 2, 2019Historical Row: The WESt Coast The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the best-known landmarks in American history, at once an engineering marvel and an aest…
Category 2018 Issue 3Posted on December 4, 2018December 14, 2018Men in the Machine: Playwright Haymon ’16 Explores Kafka in Contemporary America (Photo of Miranda Haymon ’16 by Jejomar Ysit ’19.) This September 5–17, at The Tank in New York City, Miranda Haymon …
Category 2018 Issue 3Posted on December 4, 2018May 21, 2019The Troll Under the Bridge The Fremont Troll is 28 years old, 18 feet tall, and lurks beneath the Aurora Bridge in Seattle. It was Steve Badanes ’6…
Category 2018 Issue 3Posted on December 4, 2018February 2, 2020Letters: 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…
Category 2017 Issue 1Posted on October 2, 2017December 12, 2018Q&A WITH J.R. RHODES ’90: OFFERING MUSICAL PRESENCE WITH HER NEW ALBUM, “I AM” With the newest album by J.R. Rhodes ’90 titled “I Am”—a sentence both as simple and complex as existence—the message is…