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May | Jun 2026
Vol. 124, No. 5
Features
Semiquincentennial Sampler
To mark the impending 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: a package of articles looking back to the Revolutionary War era on campus, examining the printing of the Declaration and highlighting Bicentennial dissent, and profiling the alumnus planning Philadelphia’s celebrations this year.
Witness and Judge
In his first book, Presidential Professor of Law Shaun Ossei-Owusu—a self-described “dark-skinned, sneaker-wearing, hip-hop referencing, first-generation everything with an unmaskable New York accent” and scholar given to “big swings”—offers a wide-ranging, eye-opening account of a legal system that “distributes pain and privilege unequally.”
By Julia M. Klein
Fresh Angle
How to see the Golden Gate Bridge.
Photographs by Arthur Drooker C’76
Departments
From the Editor | Here comes 250, our unequal legal system, Golden Gate views.
From College Hall | Universities advance individual success and the public good.
Letters | AI, advertising, architecture, and more.
Views
Alumni Voices | Remembering Dan.
Salvo | “My grandfather was a piano maker.”
Rabbit Hole | Escape the algorithm.
Gazetteer
Sports | Ivy championship and a taste of March Madness for men’s basketball.
Commencement | Historian Michael Beschloss named as speaker.
Heard on Campus | Tom Nichols on “the therapeutic model of education.”
World Trade | Economist Hanming Fang compares China and the US.
Education Costs | 2026–27 costs and aid to rise 3.8 percent.
Medical History | Pennsylvania Hospital opens museum to mark 275th anniversary.
Campus | With a space-doubling addition, the Morgan Building is now Weitzman Hall.
Sports | This time, the women’s squash team won a national championship.
Arts
Calendar
Exhibition | Adam Levine C’80 uncovers Lost Creeks of Philadelphia.
Fine Art | In Dear John, John Wind C’83 fashions cross-generational connections.
Briefly Noted
Alumni
Justin Marozzi G’95 is a writer who believes in “getting out and about.”
Mimi Stillman G’03 is “grateful for my life as a musician.”
Duke Lacroix C’15 helped lead Haiti to this summer’s World Cup.
Events
Notes
Obituaries
Old Penn | The Gazette covers the Bicentennial.