from WaPo: Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), chairman of the House Budget Committee, announced Tuesday that he will not run for reelection in 2022, citing his desire to spend more time with his family.
Yarmuth has represented the Louisville-based 3rd District of Kentucky since 2007 and has led the powerful budget panel since 2019. He becomes the 10th House Democrat who will not seek reelection in 2022.
Robert “Bobby” Bradley Haas, passed away unexpectedly of cardiac complications on September 28, 2021. See a traditional obituary from the Dallas Morning News and the longer story from the Wall Street Journal below. See also, our earlier story “Bobby Haas Launches New Motorcycle Museum.”
from The NY Times, The historian Beverly Gage, who has run the Grand Strategy course since 2017, says the university failed to stand up for academic freedom amid inappropriate efforts to influence the curriculum. By Jennifer Schuessler Sept. 30, 2021 The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy is one of Yale University’s most celebrated and prestigious programs. Over the course of a year, it allows a select group of about two dozen students to immerse themselves in…
from The Boston Globe as Boycott targets college admissions boost given to children of alumni at Harvard, other elite schools By Rebecca Ostriker | September 25, 2021 A national group is launching a campaign to end “legacy” preferences, using an alumni donations boycott Viet Nguyen quickly realized what he was up against when he applied to Brown University as a high school senior. The California native, a child of Vietnamese immigrants, had top grades and…
from The Seattle Times By Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press | Sep. 25, 2021 NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Amodio’s historic run on “Jeopardy!” has now netted him more than $1 million in non-tournament play, making him the third person in the show’s history to pass that mark. The only other contestants to win more than $1 million in regular season games are Ken Jennings, whose 74-game streak netted $2,520,700, and James Holzhauer, who earned…
Elsewhere Than Vietnam, a historical novel-cum-memoir by classmate David Schwartz, is a fictionalized account of his experience as an Army language specialist and interrogator for military intelligence.
As both a novel and a memoir, Elsewhere takes us to places where Dave served and wandered, from the Army’s language school in California to Munich and even to an Israeli kibbutz.
from Ars Technica “There is no reasonable doubt here. This new analysis should put the matter to rest.” JENNIFER OUELLETTE – 9/14/2021, Enlarge / The Vinland Map purports to be a 15th-century map with a pre-Columbian depiction of the North American Coast. A new analysis has confirmed that the map is, in fact, a modern-day forgery. See also, Yale University Scholars have questioned the authenticity of a purported 15th-century map housed in Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript…
This engineering project is really extraordinary and the final result is truly beautiful,
from Yale Daily News 9/11 Reflection: Jim Sleeper JIM SLEEPER 3:04 AM, SEP 09, 2011 GUEST COLUMNIST Under the aspect of eternity, the attack on Pearl Harbor 60 years ago was eclipsed on 9/11 by a darkness more fateful, frightening and — if we can keep clear about it — instructive. —September 12, 2001 When four American civilian planes brought low the world’s only superpower and greatest nerve center 10 years ago, they made a mockery of…
The Spiders’ Way features a historical account by three former administrators, plus ninety reminiscences by alumni, fellows and former staff, extending back to the 1940s. It provides a vivid portrait of life in the College over the decades: founding, traditions, co-education, social life and famous alumni.
Note: This is an Op-Ed with a “pre-note” classmate Jim Sleeper added here for us Yale ’69ers.
As a lecturer at Yale when this joint venture with Singapore was announced, Jim had a 360-degree view of events. Here he offers evidence for his thesis that the US failed in Afghanistan AND in Singapore for the same reasons — both grounded in evangelical presumptions and military-economic motivations.
DescriptionReviews A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book —named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal “Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett’s and Oxford’s.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition) “A quotations book with footnotes that are as fascinating to read as the quotes themselves.”—Arthur Spiegelman, Washington Post Book World (on the original edition)…
Lou Casagrande died on May 27th, 2021, from complications of pancreatic cancer. The following paragraphs are lightly-edited excerpts from his obituary in the Boston Globe. More information, and pictures, are available on the class website at yale1969.org. From the Globe: An anthropologist at heart, whether in Boston or on the road throughout the country, Lou Casagrande knew what he wanted to do when he arrived to become head of the Boston Children’s Museum. In his…
from Popular Science Platforms like Twitter may amplify engrained human behaviors, but a future filled with healthy discourse and productive conversations isn’t impossible. BY CHARLOTTE HU | UPDATED AUG 13, 2021 To no one’s surprise, scientists from Yale University found that social media platforms like Twitter amplify our collective moral outrage. Additionally, they found that it was mostly politically moderate users who learned to be more outraged over time. Their findings are detailed in a new study in Science…
Note: The tragedy in Afghanistan has prompted Jim Sleeper to re-issue, with new comments, a 2017 column for The Washington Monthly. He criticizes the “Grand Strategy” methodology of Yale faculty who sought to advance foreign-policymaking developed at the post-war Yale we’d attended and that persisted up through General Stanley McChrystal’s teaching stint at Yale from 2012-17.
Note: Harry reports his experience creating a free, walking tour app for his hometown, Lexington, MA. More importantly, he created an authoring system where YOU can create tours of your hometown … or other places of interest.
He’s looking for volunteers to create their own tours. He’ll provide tech support. Is this something you might want to do?
