Experience

Is Corporate Atonement Possible?

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-04-24T12:09:53-0400

Language Schools attendee Sarah Federman writes in the Conversation about how corporations involved in historical atrocities have reckoned—for better or worse—with that history.

Loneliness vs. Solitude

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-04-24T12:09:35-0400

Americans are spending more of their time alone, but that doesn’t mean an impending national epidemic of loneliness.

Fraught Art Landscape

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-04-24T12:09:20-0400

Lisa Phillips ’75, director of The New Museum, joined Thelma Golden, director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, for a conversation with The New York Times about launching expanded buildings and staying focused on their missions at an uncertain time for cultural institutions.

Why Zeitgeist

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-04-23T11:48:33-0400

Hear from Ryan McElroy ’25, editor in chief of The Middlebury Campus, about the rationale and methodology behind the annual Zeitgeist survey.

Family Comes First

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-04-23T11:48:22-0400

The New York Times Lifestyle section featured George Arison ’00 and his husband, Robert Luo, who have embraced domestic life with their “twiblings” while balancing rigorous professions.

Drone’s Eye View

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-26T15:36:55-0400

Jon Roth ’85 took inspiration from several decades of experience as a software engineer to write his debut novel, Birch, Mind of the Dragonflies.

Expanded Community Arts

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-26T15:27:49-0400

Town Hall Theater in Middlebury has launched new programming and performances in its newly constructed wing.

Energy and the Planet

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-05T12:12:20-0500

The University of Alaska Fairbanks highlighted one of its arctic energy research fellows, Kristen Watkins ’23.5.

Brazen Writings

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-05T12:12:11-0500

Jeff “J.T.” Price ’01 is the editor in chief of the literary magazine Brazenhead Review, which originated out of an illegal secondhand bookstore run out of an Upper East Side Manhattan apartment.

Too Busy Blurbing Books

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-05T12:11:31-0500

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, MA English ’04, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job.