The Library As Life
Virginia Baeckler, director of the Plainsboro Public Library, was happily working as an arts and education lobbyist for the New Jersey State Council on...
A Poet In Princeton’s Service
As Princeton University evolves in the next decade, the arts are likely to play a highly visible role. The new Lewis Center for the...
Best Little Big Town in New Jersey
So what is Princeton? A big suburb that enjoys some of the accouterments of a big city but still is rooted in large houses...
Cornel West: Making Afro-American Studies Profoundly Human, Profoundly American
"Afro-American studies was never meant to be solely for Afro-Americans,” Cornel West has said. Not many people at Princeton University would make that assumption,...
Building a New Hospital by Assuming the Best in People
We are surrounded by cynicism and disrespect. Almost daily, people argue that our public institutions are “inept and inefficient” our leaders are “narrow minded,...
Waldorf School’s Roots: A Stirring Sixth Grade Teacher
Waldorf School founder Caroline Phinney has always been the optimistic sort. She was born in Rawalpindi, which was part of India under British colonial...