Policies matter

Larry Bartels studies presidential influence on the gap between rich and poor

Published in the Oct. 8, 2008, issue

In a provocative new study, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Princeton University Press), Larry Bartels, professor of politics and public affairs, finds that the widening income gap between America’s rich and poor is not due...Read more

Tangled Vines

Published in the Oct. 8, 2008, issue

October is a busy time for Los Angeles-based artist Mary K. Weatherford ’84, whose work will be featured in three exhibitions opening this month. The painting above, appropriately named “vines”, will be included in a solo exhibit titled “Vines” opening Oct....Read more

A play to inspire

Whitney ’45 and Gabriel Seymour ’80 tell the story of Nazi resisters

Published in the Oct. 8, 2008, issue

Several months before Whitney Seymour Jr. ’45, then a 20-year-old sophomore at Princeton, reported for service in the Army in 1943, two German college students were executed by a Nazi tribunal for speaking out against Adolf Hitler and Nazi atrocities. It...Read more