Lauren RubensteinReview: "All We Know" is "erudite and exquisitely written," "suitably dishy and remarkably humane"
Government's Eisner comments on the success, historically, of presidents who embrace regulation
Yohe: The recent storm and other extreme weather events raise important questions about climate change
The Wesleyan Media Project's new study finds more than 915K presidential ads aired in the general election
Dupuy cautions that outside investors stand to gain more than Haitians from the $300M project
In an op-ed, Peter Rutland questions whether the EU deserved the Nobel Peace Prize
Greenwood comments on new evidence the lunar surface is rich with water coming from the sun
Film Studies Chair Jeanine Basinger was honored as one of the most powerful women in show business
The President holds an advantage in 14 of 15 top markets, says a new Wesleyan Media Project study
To prevent cheating, Libor should be replaced with a market-based rate, says Grossman
The Magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Education featured a story this month on Professor of Theater Ron Jenkins' Dante Project, "a program he created that attempts to use theater as a catalyst for positive change in prisons throughout the world." According to the article, the program, which has been facilitated in places as far flung as Italy and Indonesia, encourages incarcerated men and women to "write about points of connection between their own life stories and the experiences of the characters" in classics like Dante's Inferno. These writings are then used to create a script that is performed…
On Aug. 31, "Where We Live," a program on WNPR public radio, featured two segments about music at Wesleyan. Rob Rosenthal, provost, vice-president of academic affairs and the John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, and his son Sam Rosenthal, a writer and musician in New York City, discussed a new collection of Pete Seeger's personal writings that they co-edited. The book is Pete Seeger: In His Own Words (Paradigm Publishers). They described the experience of combing through decades of Seeger's writings in the folk singer's Beacon, NY home while he hovered nearby. "He would drop in from time to time…