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Away From the Horde
Dean Andrew Fleming West won his famous feud with Woodrow Wilson a century ago. The result was a college of uncommon beauty.
Altered paths
Spared the worst of the Great Recession’s toll on young people, recent Princeton grads still had to adjust to a new reality
Commencement Voices
Life, Interrupted: Posting Your Cancer On Facebook
Freddy Fox goes to war
How a favorite son took his talent for theater to the battlefields of Europe
Inquiring mind
America’s soundtrack
As Librarian of Congress, James Billington ’50 safeguards treasured moments in U.S. culture
Designing in green
Alumni architects see sustainability as part of the job
Septuagenarians and barbarians
A 30-something visits the 5th and 50th
‘Pay attention to your life’
Is an Israel-Palestine peace deal still possible? Dan Kurtzer says yes
The joint was jumpin’
A world in a grain of sand
Paul Steinhardt’s long, improbable search for a natural quasicrystal
Before Turing, there was Veblen
Computing’s early days at Princeton
Beer for intellectuals
Warfare under the radar
Peter W. Singer ’97 explains how we can be at war and hardly notice
Daybreak of the Digital Age
The world celebrates the man who imagined the computer
A break from the party to contemplate war
ON BOOKS: The new tastemakers
Few newspapers review books these days. So who does?
Crisis Contrived
Professor Douglas Massey *78 says that most of what we think about Mexican immigration is wrong
London calling
ON BOOKS: What keeps her up at night
Jodi Picoult ’87 writes best-sellers by asking questions about the things that worry us all
Hidden Treasure
Unexpected Discoveries in Firestone Library