Issue 1 Editors' Note 2025-2026

As a harbinger for this banner year in Anvil history, we have carefully re-imagined our logotype and visual brand. Not merely superficial, these alterations allow for clearer communication of our values, heritage, and significance within the Middlesex community.

We believe in this newspaper’s power to enlighten and engage our readership by platforming a diversity of perspectives. We encourage anyone with a Middlesex connection to visit anvilmx.com/contact to share a note in response to any article, to be published in the next issue under Letters to the Editor.

A central goal of The Anvil’s 121st iteration is to demonstrate both the opportunities that journalism brings and our school’s impressive alumni in the field. To that end, we are pleased to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Bret Stephens ‘91 on Friday, September 26th. He will lead a workshop on opinion-writing and journalism more broadly, open to all Middlesex students. We are looking forward to that and more special events later this fall and winter.

-George Thornton '26 & Gina Zhao '26