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Politics Sports

A Sense of Where You Are

Bill Bradley was a Rhodes scholar, a three-term U.S. Senator and a presidential candidate. But before all that, he was the best college basketball player in the country.

John McPhee New Yorker Jan 1965 1h5min Permalink

Lost in the Meritocracy

An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.

Walter Kirn The Atlantic Jan 2005 35min Permalink

Science

There Is Only Awe

On Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist who told the story of how humans learned to think.

Rachel Aviv n+1 Mar 2013 10min Permalink

Best Article Science

The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal

From the 1940s through the early 70s, incoming freshman at Harvard, Yale, Vassar, Wellesley, and several other top schools were photographed nude in the name of science–bogus science, as it turned out. Most of the photos were destroyed, but not all.

Ron Rosenbaum New York Times Magazine Jan 1995 Permalink