Features

PAW’s annual reader-photo contest

Searching for Palestine, and Herself

In the shadow of her father, Najla Said ’96 forges her own identity

LIVES: Nicholas deB. Katzenbach ’43

Unflappable civil-rights hero and shaper of history

After Sandy

Can Princeton professors help to prevent such damage from future storms?

Talking metaphors with John McPhee ’53

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.

LIVES: Malcolm R. Warnock ’25

Princeton’s oldest son

Science as art

A photo exhibition shows the beauty born in Princeton’s labs and field research

Some don’t like it hot!

In a Nation’s Service

This new college has roots in Princeton, but it was created for a place 5,700 miles away

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