Letters to the Editor

Editor's Picks December 9, 2025

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 ...

Editor's Picks November 25, 2025

The Classroom as Liberatory Space

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 ...

Letters to the Editor November 21, 2025

Political Faith in an Age of Despair

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 ...

Editor's Picks November 18, 2025

Calibrating Your Inner Compass

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 ...

Letters to the Editor November 18, 2025

Wesleyan’s Vegetarian Plaque May Become More Persuasive

Wesleyan University in Middletown often rivals Yale University in New Haven for nutty political correctness, and that’s how many people perceived its most recent news. A group of Wesleyan students, ...

Editor's Picks November 14, 2025

Make a Difference Here and Now

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 ...

Editor's Picks November 11, 2025

A Personal Reflection on Political Life in Trump’s America

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 ...

Letters to the Editor November 11, 2025

President Roth Can’t Kill the Wesleyan Animal Recognition Memorial

It was late September 2014, and I was eighteen, marching through the streets of Manhattan in what was, at the time, the largest climate mobilization in history: The People’s Climate ...

Editor's Picks November 7, 2025

How to Sweat It

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 ...

Letters to the Editor November 7, 2025

Call to Action: Wangunk Past, Present and Future at Wesleyan, in Middletown, and in the Connecticut River Valley

Over Homecoming and Family Weekend, students, faculty, and community members gathered to learn about the history and legacy of the Wangunk (the Indigenous caretakers of Middletown and the greater Connecticut ...