Category: Yale University

Historian Likens America To Nazi Germany, Calling Bannon’s Media…

In an interview with German newspaper SA1 4ddeutsche Zeitung , Yale University history professor Timothy Snyder said the threat posed by President Donald Trump means “we have at most a year to defend the Republic” and highlighted the role chief strategist Stephen Bannon is playing in that threat, including the administration’s interaction with the media. The Trump presidency has created no shortage of concerns about the stability of the republic.

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Administrators at Yale University announced on Saturday that a college named for John Calhoun, a former US vice-president who was an ardent supporter of slavery, will be renamed after sustained protest and activism from students. “This is a victory for the New Haven community,” Kica Matos, one of the leaders of the Change the Name Coalition and a fellow at Yale’s Stiles College, told the Guardian.

Yale drops slavery proponent Calhoun from college name

After years of debate, Yale University is changing the name of a residential college that honors a 19th century alumnus who ardently supported slavery. After years of debate, Yale University is changing the name of a residential college that honors a 19th century alumnus who ardently supported slavery.

Few Asian-Americans hold top legal jobs, new study says

California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu is interviewed in his office in San Francisco, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. A new study co-authored by Liu, a prominent Asian American judge, finds Asian Americans are well-represented among the nation’s attorneys, but still missing from leadership positions in the legal profession.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson gets hearing for HUD chief

In this Dec. 8, 2016 file photo, Yale University alumnus Dr. Benjamin Carson, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, speaks at Yale, as a guest of the William F. Buckley Jr. Program, in New Haven, Conn. Carson is preparing to take lawmakers questions about his vision for the nation’s housing policies.

[Peter Singer] The empathy trap

Soon after Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, he told a young girl, “We don’t have enough empathy in our world today, and it is up to your generation to change that.” Obama expressed a widespread view, so the title of a new book, “Against Empathy,” by Yale University psychologist Paul Bloom, comes as a shock.