A 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 filmmaker to vouchsafe an emotion. And for good reason: it requires the greatest …
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The 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…
IDEAS: 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…
Historical 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…
Men 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 …
The 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…
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…
Q&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…
MEET OUR ELEPHANTS, BY REBECCA WINKLER ’16
Rebecca Winkler '16 writes about her experience working with the Mahouts Elephant Foundation in the latest issue of Wesl…
BOOK EXCERPT: ENEMY OF THE GOOD, BY MATTHEW PALMER ’88
From Enemy of the Good, by Matthew Palmer, published on May 23, 2017, by Putnam, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Gr…