Echoes of Lost Conversations: A Review of ‘Bright College Years’
…College Years could help serve as a model for the restructuring ahead. Set at Yale in the 1980s,, the story tells of a gang of friends going through their four…
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To Renew Faith in Education, Look to Passover and Resurrection
…translation of the Bible. Yale’s Hebrew motto, Urim v’Thummim, is from the Hebrew Bible’s oracle worn by the High Priest Aaron (Leviticus 8:8). Harvard University’s Latin motto of “Veritas” began…
Hope for Harvard?
…Widener Library. Now that number is 45, somewhat fewer than are taught at the University of Michigan, and considerably fewer than the 75 taught at Yale. Such, apparently, are the…
The Takeover
…They are also hotbeds of left-wing and anti-Israel activism. Both Harvard and Yale received funds from Saudi Arabian donors to establish Islamic Studies centers, totaling $30 million. Brown and Columbia…
Yale University Decides It Needs Better Students Again
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from National Review’s article titled “Yale University Decides It Needs Better Students Again,” published on February 22, 2024. To delve deeper into the…
The New 2024 Law School Rankings: The Sociology of Law
…be a corrective factor. As former University of Chicago Booth School of Business dean and Yale professor Edward A. Snyder recently stated, “Yale is nearly fully disconnected from much of…
Why FairAdmissions@MIT is Challenging MIT’s Illegal Sex Discrimination
…can at Harvard, Yale, Penn, and other Ivy League universities. But why is it morally and legally acceptable to reject an objectively superior male candidate to make room for a…
Biden and Universities Launch Sneak Attack on Free Speech
…taking place often enough to detract from the victim’s education. Universities around the country will often change the “and” to an “or,” like at Yale University. Language is important when…
Saving Free Speech
…2021, has grown to induct members from 24 major American universities, including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, MIT, and UCLA. A 2023 survey of 802 undergraduate students by Yale’s Buckley Institute found…
Racial Preferences as Conspicuous Consumption
…degrees from both Stanford and Harvard, it is hard to imagine a grander prize. Eat your heart out Yale! The fact that she survived so long despite her despite all…
Has Anyone Noticed How Cheap it Was to Bribe the Biden Crime Family and Our Universities?
…of mainland Chinese money from 2014 to 2019, and Yale’s take during the same period was $43.5 million, according to public records. The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn’s own student newspaper, reported…
When Savages Exult in Selfies, What’s a Statesman to Consider?
…His mold, ever be a Statesman? The others Hill recommends are: Kim, Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses. How fortunate one of our elite universities—Yale—let my friend…
Nazism, Anti-Semitism, and Today’s Islamo-Fascism at American Universities
…the hiring process at American institutions to exclude Jews. Yale chose Hanns Oertel (1868–1952) as its delegate. German-born, he studied linguistics, comparative philology, and Vedic Sanskrit at Yale, completing his…
Law Professors Hate Free Speech and Embrace Control
…and Method [6] An element of “cherished delusion” that still centrally animates the law academy is reflected by Yale Law professor Owen Fiss and his book “Pillars of Justice: Lawyers…
Politik Kills and the Intelligentsia are Complicit
…Yale Professor of American Studies blamed the attacks on Israeli settler colonialism and White supremacy. A former Emory Professor of Medicine chanted “Glory to all resistance fighters” at a pro-Palestine…
Gerber For Faculty Positions
The law school deans at places such as Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Penn rarely turn to me for advice. Ok, never. That’s partly because I am not a lawyer but…
The Collegiate War on Men
…quality American higher education. Seven of the nine schools have female presidents. The two with men in charge, Yale and Princeton, probably won’t for long, as their presidents are both…
Elite Capture in Israel – An Anthropological Perspective
…must be supported by this latest world power. And, he knows that the wokeness and anti-democratic ideologies that afflict most Ivy League institutions in the U.S. such as Harvard, Yale,…
Silence and Violence
…was the puerile rhetoric of “Yalies4Palestine.” In the world of fantasy the Yale students inhabit, Gaza has been an “open-air prison” since the Israelis left it in 2005, notwithstanding Israel…
GILLEN: Support for the Hamas Reveals Two Truths: DEI is a Lie and Institutional Neutrality is Essential
…“major achievement of the resistance.” Zareena Grewal, a professor at Yale: “Prayers for Palestinians. Israel is a murderous, genocidal settler state and Palestinians have every right to resist through armed…
American Academia’s Hate for Israel and Love Affair With Iran
…among the most vocal, as signatories from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Brown University are counted among the BDS movement’s ranks. Last year, the anti-Semitism watchdog, StopAntisemitism, ranked Columbia University and…
WU: The Visible Hand vs. Equal Justice
…student body. Yale University, another school subject to a federal complaint and a lawsuit over alleged racial discrimination in undergraduate admissions, has vowed to create “an inclusive, diverse, and excellent…
The Closing of the American Law School
…opinion, and emboldens partisan judges, especially when law professors from the “elite” law schools like Yale and Harvard (where eight out of nine Supreme Court Justices are alumnae) fancy themselves…
Ending Affirmative Action is Good for Everyone
…the Law. The president of Yale University, Peter Salovey, pledged compliance with the ruling. But by stressing Yale’s continued commitment to “diversity,” Salovey left open the possibility that his pledge…
Minding the Sciences — The Not-So-Silent Spring
…outstanding biography of this fascinating scientist, see Slack, N. G. and Wilson, E. O. (2011). G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology, Yale University Press. Image: Adobe Stock…
Reforming American Higher Education: Intended and Unintended Consequences
…Yale professorship and curriculum for embracing atheism, collectivism, and Keynesianism, which he considered a perversion of academic freedom and contrary to the views of most Yale alumni, which he believed…
Elite Schools are Leading the Illiberal Charge
…silencing dissent compared to their male counterparts. This gender gap is more pronounced at elite schools—like Yale, Stanford, Oberlin, and Middlebury—which place their many graduates, who hold illiberal views about…
The Affirmative Action Failure Machine
…as financial advisors are required to explain risks to potential investors. Then, if the educational investment turns sour—i.e., choosing Yale over Boston University despite middling SAT scores—nobody is to blame…
How to Harpoon the DEI Leviathan
…at a liberal arts university like Yale, which may be beyond hope. A sympathetic president who realizes she has a problem, rather than one that has drunk the DEI Kool-Aid,…
All Hail Mailer! A Belated Eulogy for a Fellow Jeffersonian
…Mailer looks to me like George Bush, Jr. after an all-night bender at Yale. That’s where the resemblance stops, I think. Mailer counts among the greatest novelists of the Beat…