Rethinking Reagan

Liberal historian Sean Wilentz still disagrees with the conservative president, but gives credit where it’s due

By Mark F. Bernstein ’83

  “Welcome to the Age of Reagan.” With those words, Sean Wilentz greets the 15 students who have enrolled in the seminar he is teaching this semester, but he might as well be speaking to anyone who has lived through the past generation. The course is...

Weathering the storm

Financial aid rises with the economy’s downturn; stability expected for the budget, Aspire campaign

By Alice Lloyd George ’09

  The University has been forced to increase its financial-aid spending by more than $3 million, and the timing and scope of campus construction projects may be adjusted in response to the financial crisis. But Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said...

Bearing witness

On a journey to the Arctic, alumni get a firsthand look at climate change

By Michael D. Lemonick

On a brilliantly sunny morning in August, an ungainly vessel called the Kapitan Khlebnikov — part icebreaker, part cruise ship — stopped a mile or...

Band’s visit to The Citadel draws a frosty reception

Altercation, cadets’ hostile reaction to halftime show seen as evidence of ‘culture war’ between the schools

By Alice Lloyd George ’09

The Princeton University Band has a long-standing tradition of provocative antics, but cadets at The Citadel, where Tigers played Sept. 20 for...

A moment with...Andrew Appel '81

  This fall Princeton computer science professor Andrew Appel ’81 has been teaching a freshman seminar called “Election Machinery,” about the...