Overconsumption Has Ruined Collecting
It’s no coincidence that the decline in collecting as a hobby corresponds with the decline in the consumption of physical ...
Editor’s Picks
Letter From the Editors: Our Nights at the Newsroom
Dear Reader, If you’re ever at the Argus office on a Thursday evening, you’d likely hear someone shout “You’re all ...
Spike Tape’s “Spelling Bee” Brings the Laughs While Challenging the Audience to Spell
You could feel the excitement building to a fever pitch before Spike Tape’s production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County ...
The Cost of Convenience: How Ease Undermines Sustainability
The University’s obsession with convenience has embedded itself into everything we do. Take me, for example: I couldn’t think of ...
Senior Thesis “Tears of Gold” Offers Us A New Kind of Fairytale
A staged reading of Senica Slaton’s ’26 “Tears of Gold” debuted at Ring Family Performing Arts Hall on Tuesday, April ...
Roth in The Argives: Michael Roth ’78 Prior to Presidency
Wesleyan President Michael Roth ’78 has been named in no less than 229 editions of The Argus. Six of these ...
Finding Hope in Prison
When asked by the editors of The Argus to contribute to the “Letters on Pragmatic Hope,” I was at first ...
In Interview With Distinguished Writer in Residence Cal Flyn
Every year, world-renowned writers are hosted to mentor students on campus by the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. ...
On the Correct Usage of Em Dashes
The hottest punctuation mark today is the em dash. From that of steadfast devotees, for whom it is a mark ...
Tired of Choosing Between Selling Out and Shouting? The Case for the Tempered Radical
Each day, we as students are called to abandon our generational nihilism: to show up at every protest, sign every ...