Before We Succeed, We Must Decide
With summer at the University just around the corner, the campus feels less like a place of reflection and more like a recruiting fair. Everyone is in a rush to ...
Letters to the Editor
Look Up
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 ...
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 ...
Notes From a Nature Lover
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 ...
Hope Is a Discipline: Do Small Things With Great Love and In a Community
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 ...
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 ...