Guest Essay

We, the Class of ’01, Grew Up In an ‘Unfathomably Lucky’ Moment

Boris Fishman ’01 writes about the forces that gave the world ‘its most hopeful decade in nearly a century’

Meeting My 19-Year-Old Dad, Eight Years After His Death

Chuck Dressel ’71’s daughter remembers her dad, an All-Ivy heavyweight wrestler who taught her ‘that hard work mattered’

From Imposition to Imagination in a New Middle East

‘Prince’ Tenure Stands Out in More Than 60 Years of Princeton Connections

Revisiting My PAW Columns After 50 Years

One Question Can Change the Way Kids View the World

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How Princeton Can Save Young Minds from Themselves

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How Zoom Bonded The Class of 1971

‘For me these calls are heartfelt,’ writes Michael Pepper ’71

How a Dinosaur From the Utah Desert Came to Princeton

In 1996, William W. Warner ’43 penned the story of alumni who dug fossils and forged friendships in the summer of 1941

Princeton’s Overlooked NFL Ironman

Carl Barisich ’73, who played more games than any other Princeton alumnus, has volunteered to help researchers study CTE

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The Secret I Left Inside Princeton’s Picasso Sculpture

Jay Paris ’71 explains how a student job at Princeton’s art museum turned into an irresistible opportunity to prank Pablo Picasso

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A Case of the Bends

‘Rising fast can be painful. … But the condition is rarely fatal, and the pain disappears with time’

Finding Famed Physicist John Wheeler

Robert Fuller *61 ponders what would happen if six physicists sought out their former mentor by applying his theory of wormholes leading to different worlds

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How Edmund White Entered My Life at the Right Time, Several Times

Before he met White, Benjamin Bernard *22 knew him as the writer and Princeton professor who ‘brought gay experience out of the closet and into literature’

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