…“The Monster of Monticello,” describing Jefferson as “a creepy, brutal hypocrite”), the brief was signed by several eminent historians — among them, Eric Foner (Columbia), David Blight (Yale), James McPherson…
…them and what wording to use. By specifying that questions must be asked by “the accused student or his agent,” Baum rejected the submitted-questions model. [Is Yale More Dangerous than…
Two American elite universities, Yale and Harvard, are now in the crosshairs of the Education Department. Why? They accepted money from foreign countries like China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Iran…
Yale is ending the teaching of one of its most storied courses—a survey of Western Art history from the Renaissance to the present. The Yale Daily News called the action…
…Jack Montague’s lawsuit against Yale, the court denied summary judgment on both breaches of contract and basic fairness, and in a variety of areas—including whether Yale found Montague guilty despite…
…not be truthful—and therefore would be “at fault.” A system that rules out such a possibility is biased from the start. [Is Yale More Dangerous than Detroit?] The Cuomo administration…
…To which one can only respond: if only! Leave aside such student abuse of the adults in charge as the scourging of Nicholas Christakis at Yale, of Bret Weinstein at…
…can’t find a job as a professor at a good university. One of my former bosses had a degree from the highest-ranked law school (Yale) and had published scholarly articles…
…decide what can be said and what speech is allowed and what must be suppressed; it is what former Yale University president Bartlett Giamatti characterized as the “tyranny of group…
…had done the same thing. History at Yale, English at Cornell and Harvard, and philosophy at Penn, it added, had already decided to skip the GRE. [Columbia Adds Multiculturalism to…
…academic quality or any of the other measures of excellence valued by Harvard.”(This reminds me of the position attributed to critics of Yale’s decision to go co-ed: they didn’t object…
…Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite. Markovits is a professor of law at Yale, and while he paints a much broader canvas of American inequality, he is especially…
…Nine allegations, meanwhile, were filed against Yale professors. The increased number of complaints filed by female graduate students (who are a smaller percentage of the overall Yale community than female…
…trauma-informed approach as an antidote to the criminal justice process—a remark that revealed more than perhaps she intended. [After Vilifying Its Basketball Star, How Much Did Yale Have to Pay?]…
Anthony Kronman, my long-time Yale Law School colleague and perhaps the most eloquent individual I know personally, has written a brave, high-minded, argumentative, and largely persuasive book about the values…
…new edition of the study “Neo-Segregation at Yale” in New Haven on September 23rd and launching their next edition of Beach Books, which tracks these college reading programs, at First…
…risk. If you find for her, no one is likely to complain.” Gertner expanded on her perspective in a 2016 article for Yale Law Journal. Elizabeth Bartholet, meanwhile, accurately predicted—in…
…sexual assault, not alcohol. [After Vilifying Its Basketball Star, How Much Did Yale Have to Pay?] The CARE statement was forwarded to Purdue dean Katherine Sermersheim, who oversaw an “investigation.”…
…Princeton, Columbia, Yale Harvard drew them not only because of its prestige, but because, as the college brochures and the president’s speeches told them, Harvard is a wondrous domain of…
…by David Post, chair of Yale’s Title IX tribunal, At the meeting, Yale told the accuser they’d set up a special process for her—in which Yale’s Title IX office would…
…percent of the students at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania are now Jewish. At Yale, Harvard and Cornell, the Jewish student number between 20 and 25 percent, while between…
…UMass school hearing was played.” Nevertheless, jurors found Amara guilty, and the judge sentenced Amara to five years in prison. [Major Victory for Montague in Yale Lawsuit] Perhaps Amara would…
…one might assume that Berkeley-Yale-Hopkins-Chicago-et al had formed a conspiracy to keep anyone not-white and not-male out of the faculty ranks. They truly believe that. Their version of the past…
…when it broke the story about Adversity Scores. Coleman himself is the very model of resourcefulness, or resourcefulness melded to privilege. The son of the president of Bennington College, Yale-educated,…
…standing up to college’s feckless administration, “Cowardice and Courage at Middlebury.” Yale University Yale’s follies in the last few years are kaleidoscopic. AEI’s Michael Rubin, writing in the Washington Examiner…
…to serve as the complainant, so Yale’s Title IX office, desperate to see a case against Montague proceed, filed the charges itself. Once the hearing commenced, however, Yale allowed the…
…same pattern regarding Jewish admissions documented by Jerome Karabel’s impressive 2005 book, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. In fact, Unz noted…
…fearful of questioning the prevailing attitudes and ideas is fairly common nationwide. In 2018, the Buckley Program at Yale asked a national sample of undergraduates, “[Have you felt intimidated in…
…my opinion. The extreme irony of this is demonstrated by Jerome Karabel in another superb book, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton….
…these places can seriously claim to be a leading university—that is, an elite institution comparable in quality and ambitions to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, or Stanford. Not only I but several…