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Bernard Reginster: Associate Professor of Philosophy
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A Seat at the Table
After years of frustration, faculty members get more power to make policy
A New Civil Rights Movement
Jesse Jackson Jr. calls for a new struggle for a new century
Old Trade Secrets
The John Carter Brown Library spends $159,000–on a single book
The Ice Cream Man Cometh
New York City welcomes a very young playwright
Hot Items
V-Dub’s plastic cups are all the rage
Our Men in Havana
In Havana this past October, Professor James Blight brought together old foes Robert McNamara and Fidel Castro for the fortieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Such meetings, part of Blight’s unconventional fifteen-year study of the crisis, have led McNamara and others to a startling conclusion: we were much closer to nuclear war than anyone thought.
Thunders & Whispers
The Sayles organ turns 100.
The Good Book
What is a book? Walter Feldman is asking students to make one and find out.
Pius IX, con Gusto
Alfred Uhry takes on the battle of the faithful.
Game Over
Short stories from the first Gulf War.
Leading Man
Finally, a mainstream film with real roles for Asian-American actors.
Quest for Kinship
How adoption has changed the American family—and how our notion of family has transformed adoption.
Utah’s Wry Minstrel
Ken Shaw ’84 kicks the L out of the BLM.
California Dreaming
In Pasadena, David Ebershoff ’91 tells a complex tale of love and ambition.
The End of Writer’s Block: Selmer Bringsjord ’87 Ph.D.
Artificial intelligence may be quick, but is it smart?
The Defender
Farewell: John F. Sheehan ’53
One of the Righteous Few
Farewell: Charles A. Baldwin II
So Artists Could Thrive
Farewell: Vera List
Art for History’s Sake: Barbara Hail ’52
Filling in Native American history by studying the objects left behind.
How to Kill
Biological warfare’s surprisingly ancient past.
In The News
Alumni in the Headlines
Brunonians on the Ballot
Who won and who lost.
Attention, Sports Fans
Passing the baton to a new, more youthful regime.