Community is Not Comfort
It’s 10:30 p.m., and I’ve just realized I haven’t finished my English essay, the one due at midnight. Apparently taking four writing-heavy classes as an English major was not, in ...
Letters to the Editor
Notes From a Nature Lover
We are certainly in a time of shocking assaults on democracy. For many of us it can be hard not to slip into moments of incredulity and, at times, hopelessness. ...
Hope Is a Discipline: Do Small Things With Great Love and In a Community
I’m the daughter of a civil rights activist and union organizer who dropped out of high school at the age of 16 to start working in a factory in Pittsburgh, ...
Strategic Hope and the World We Inherit
This piece is part of Letters on Pragmatic Hope, an essay series in which Wesleyan professors and administrators reflect on a daunting question: How can students act with purpose and efficacy ...
Learning in a Time of Genocide
This piece is part of Letters on Pragmatic Hope, an essay series in which Wesleyan professors and administrators reflect on a daunting question: How can students act with purpose and ...
Treat Despair with Cautionary Care
This piece is part of Letters on Pragmatic Hope, an essay series in which Wesleyan professors and administrators reflect on a daunting question: How can students act with purpose and efficacy ...
Letter From the Editors: Reading the News, Holding Our Gaze
It's the 1980s in Iran; a young Marjane Satrapi has more than one moment where she considers turning an eye to the changing world around her—or so we learn in ...
Pragmatic Hope Needs Radical Hope
This piece is part of Letters on Pragmatic Hope, an essay series in which Wesleyan professors and administrators reflect on a daunting question: How can students act with purpose and ...
How “Minding One’s Words” Can Contribute to Pragmatic Hope
This piece is part of Letters on Pragmatic Hope, an essay series in which Wesleyan professors and administrators reflect on a daunting question: How can students act with purpose and ...
Letter From the Editors: At 45 Broad Street, Someone Like You Cares a Whole Awful Lot
Dear Reader, A friend, a fellow at NPR, recently recounted a morning when six journalists had to look over a sentence they’d written before it could air. That number made ...