With increasing unemployment and unrest in the European Union and the rise of sensational books such as Thomas Picketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” there couldn’t be a more exciting...
What do you envision when you think of a philosopher? Maybe you imagine a stuffy old man in a messy office buried in archaic books ranging in subject matter from inapplicable to useless. Most of us don’t...
What exactly does a mathematician do? According to associate professor of mathematics Alexander Diesl, it involves a lot of scratch paper and is similar to art in that it requires creativity and flexibility. ...
A pacifist and literary scholar, Lawrence A. Rosenwald is probably the only phone-tax resister on the faculty at Wellesley. He serves as the director of the Peace and Justice Studies department and is...