Pine Brook’s Howard Newman Defends ‘Fracking for Export’

Pine Brook’s Howard Newman Defends ‘Fracking for Export’

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Editor’s Note: This is an interview from The Wall Street Journal.

Howard Newman, co-founder of private-equity firm Pine Brook, believes the winner of Tuesday’s presidential election should pursue a bigger role for the U.S. in the global fight against climate change and that the nation’s abundant natural-gas supply can be a means to that end.

Mr. Newman spoke to WSJ Pro about some of the energy policies he’d like to see the next administration adopt.

Yale’s David Swensen Puts Money Managers on Notice About Diversity

Yale’s David Swensen Puts Money Managers on Notice About Diversity

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wsj.com Yale’s David Swensen Puts Money Managers on Notice About Diversity By Juliet Chung Close Juliet Chung Biography Juliet.Chung@wsj.com and Dawn Lim  The national discussion over race has resulted in an accelerated push for diversity on boards and in companies across the U.S. It has also prompted some investors to look at investment management, one of…

How Yale, the country’s best college golf course, is back from the dead

How Yale, the country’s best college golf course, is back from the dead

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from GolfWorld How Yale, the country’s best college golf course, is back from the dead By Joel Beall September 30, 2020   He walked off the course as if witnessing a resurrection. There was a glance back at the green and down the fairway, as to confirm what happened had happened. “It’s miraculous, really,” Robert Massimilian…

How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition

How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition

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from the atlantic.com How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition By Daniel Markovits  Aug. 19th, 2019 . Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. Maybe there’s a way out. Updated at 4:38 p.m. ET on September 4, 2019. In the summer of 1987, I graduated from a public high school in Austin, Texas, and…

John Randolph Elliott, August 31, 2020

John Randolph Elliott, August 31, 2020

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from: Erie Times News The Rev. John Randolph Elliott (“Randy”) was an extraordinary, ordinary man. Randy will be long remembered as a man of prayer with deep faith, warm spirit, unwavering integrity, rigorous self-discipline, large intellect, and contagious laughter most often heard with a big family that he loved and gave him great joy—a family…

FDA approves COVID-19 saliva test developed at Yale

FDA approves COVID-19 saliva test developed at Yale

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from USA Today FDA approves COVID-19 saliva test developed at Yale in partnership with the NBA, NBPA Jeff Zillgitt USA TODAY A saliva-based COVID-19 test developed by researchers at Yale in partnership and funding from the NBA and National Basketball Players Association was approved on Saturday for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration….

Justice Dept. Accuses Yale of Discrimination in Application Process

Justice Dept. Accuses Yale of Discrimination in Application Process

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from the New York Times Justice Dept. Accuses Yale of Discrimination in Application Process The Trump administration said the university discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants. Yale defended its practices and vowed to maintain them. by Anemona Hartocollis, Aug. 13, 2020 The Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of violating federal civil rights law…

Harvard, Yale enrollments down 20 percent after moving online

Harvard, Yale enrollments down 20 percent after moving online

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from Campus Reform by Ben Zeisloft  Pennsylvania Senior Campus Correspondent on Aug 06, 2020 at 10:30 AM EDT One-fifth of Yale and Harvard students will not enroll for the fall semester. Universities across the United States are anticipating drops in enrollment. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, about 20 percent of Harvard and Yale University students will not re-enroll…

Deeper breathing can help reduce stress among college-goers, Yale researchers say

Deeper breathing can help reduce stress among college-goers, Yale researchers say

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While institutions are being forced to put in place mental health awareness protocols, advisories, counselling centres and have full-time psychiatrists on campus, among other measures, a new study from researchers at Yale University has backed the multiple benefits of breath work in increasing mental well-being among students, in a short period of time. 

New Book: Beyond The 4th Door

New Book: Beyond The 4th Door

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Richard Seltzer is accelerating his output of novels, having published Parallel Lives only 6 months ago.  (See our review of it — Richard Seltzer’s New Novel: Parallel Lives.). Rumor has it that he has two more novels accepted for publication and another under contract.  Can you say “prolific?”
Beyond The 4th Door is now available on Amazon, which describes the novel thusly:
Without knowing why or how, two college students wake up 50 years older than they were when they went to sleep and with no memo […]

Yale University offers free course on African American history ‘from emancipation to the present’

Yale University offers free course on African American history ‘from emancipation to the present’

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from fox5dc.com Yale University offers free course on African American history ‘from emancipation to the present’ Jun. 10th, 2020 NEW HAVEN, Conn. – As protests against police brutality and systemic racism have swept across the country following the death of George Floyd, many have been encouraged to educate themselves on the history of the black experience in the U.S….

Ivy League Places All Sports on Hold Until January

Ivy League Places All Sports on Hold Until January

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from nytimes.com Ivy League Places All Sports on Hold Until January By Billy Witz, Jul. 8th, 2020 The league’s decision could be influential for other university presidents as they consider how to handle the coronavirus pandemic. It is the first Division I conference to suspend football for the fall. The Ivy League presidents placed all sports…

Canceling Yale

Canceling Yale

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FROM amgreatness.com Canceling Yale By Roger Kimball • June 22, 2020 I see that #CancelYale is trending on Twitter and elsewhere in social media. It’s a development I’d like to encourage—not, to be frank, because I think that canceling things is a good idea. Quite the opposite. But if the Left is going to pursue its dream of destroying every…