Letters
Jul|Aug 2025
Beyond Salvation
Repeat salvation seeker.
Trash Tribe
Collecting cans, finding community.
Bar Soap
Soap story.
Staying Power
From the Editor | Existential despair, global engagement, comedy royalty.
What Do Penn Alumni Remember?
From College Hall | The power of your Penn story.
Letters
May|Jun 2025: On transplants, postcards, stereotypes, and more.
Unlikely Camper
Brothers and allies.
Close Your Eyes
“Three months, I told myself.”
Uh-oh
How every fatal plane crash echoes the first one, in 1908.
Foundational Work
From the Editor | Housing assistance, transplant history, highway to the ’60s.
Letters
Mar|Apr 2025: “Course” ratings, celiac disease, Bell and Bednarik, and more.
The Milan Affair
“Naturally I suggested that Scott just pee out the window.”
Sweet Chariots
Witold’s wheels.
Postcard Time Machine
The satisfaction of three sentences, a signature, and a stamp.
Close Study
From the Editor | Course guides, a family’s fight, meritorious alumni.
The Values Proposition
From College Hall | Values in action.
Letters
Jan|Feb 2025: The upside of population decline, and more.
The Orphan Trap
Losing my parents as a teenager saddled me with an identity I felt powerless to shape—until now.
Lying to the Irish
But failing to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes.
Point, Counterpoint
Are American commas and periods destined to be on the outside, looking in?
Role Models
From the Editor | Motherhood, “Mungermen,” monuments.
Letters
Prize support, not nothing, and more.
Self-Portrait
Alumni Voices | The man in the mirror.