Slouching Towards Elegance
In her new book, Trustee Professor of French Joan DeJean counts the many ways—from padded sofas, to “casual” clothing, to flush toilets—that France taught the world how to make itself comfortable.
Letters
Mar|Apr 2010
Hyphen Anxiety
A Franco-American worries that he’s not quite French enough.
Journey Into Silence
Can I renounce speech, and almost everything else, for three months?
Private Shetznitz
Why would a peace-loving, left-leaning, lactose-intolerant Jew from the Chicago suburbs join the Israeli Army?
From Words to Buildings
What good is language to an architect?
$20 Million Gift for PIK Professorships
Weiss $20 million gift will fund four PIK professors
Findings
Rethinking Depression Treatment, BlackBerry Nation, and the Cholesterol Cure
Harnessing PIK Power to Engage Alumni
“Engaging Minds” takes PIKs on the road
Crime and (Incoherent) Punishment
Legislative haste makes legal waste
You Want Science With That?
Science Cafe examines DNA screening and more
College Green Snow
Snow more
Reality Check
Basketball’s woes
Scoring a Hearing
When an artful dodger is interrogated by sopranos, music breaks out.
Philagrafika (throws out the) Rules
A celebration of printmaking crosses all kinds of boundaries
Not Your Typical Pop-up Book
Works in paper. Pop Up Architecture
Ready, Aim, Speak!
Essays on the challenges of protecting free speech in dangerous times.
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2010
Reporting Live, Among the Dead, from Port-au-Prince
Ross Levitt C’97
The Business of Faith
Kirbyjon Caldwell WG’77
Cheers for Big Bad Boo
Shabnam Rezaei C’95 EAS’95
Painting a Message of Melting
Diane Burko GFA’69
Alumni Notes
Mar|Apr 2010
Obituaries
Mar|Apr 2010