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?
Richard Seltzer keeps up the torrid pace of publishing with the release of his latest novel, Shakespeare’s Twin Sister. He reports, “I had a LOT of fun with this one!”
The plot device is clever: Shakespeare’s twin sister Kate wakes up in the body of a 99-year-old woman in a nursing home in 1987. She has […]
from the New Haven Register Yale University PhD student Matthew Amodio has become an eight-day returning champion on television quiz show, “Jeopardy!” earning $52,000 on Tuesday night’s episode, and defeated Christina Leone of East Hartford. In his winning streak, Amodio has won $362,400. Heading into the Final Jeopardy! round, Amodio’s earnings totaled $36,000 while Leone’s were $9,600. Both Amodio and Leone answered the final question correctly — Leone’s wager was enough for her to finish in second…
from NH Register With over a dozen athletes heading to Tokyo, Yale remains a consistent college presence in the Olympics Maggie Vanoni July 16, 2021 With 16 athletes scheduled to compete in the Tokyo Olympics that have Yale ties, and three more to potentially receive confirmation later this month, the university will continue its presence as one of the top schools consistently represented at the Olympics. Yale’s 2021 Olympic athletes, which include 11 in the…
Class Colloqium 11, held July 14, 2021, featured Classmate Richard Breitman in a thought-provoking discussion of ‘Refugee and Immigrant Crises’, an area of his broad expertise. See the video below.
Professor Emeritus, after a 40-year career at American University, Richard commented based upon his knowledge of early 20th century German History, extensive Holocaust documentation and […]
Yale recognized for fast growth of lower-income student enrollment The American Talent Initiative, a national alliance that aims to increase the number of lower-income students enrolled in colleges and universities, has highlighted Yale as a leader in achieving this goal. Since 2015, the percentage of Yale students eligible for Pell Grants grew by 55%.
Guy Cooper writes, in what may be his first submission to the Class Notes, that “just wondering if any other member of the class of 1969 has survived a tornado? My wife Molly and I were at home on the night of October 20, 2019, half-asleep and half-watching the Dallas Cowboys on a Sunday night, when an E3 tornado zeroed in on our block. We have rebuilt the house and moved back in this month…
from nytimes.com Yale Drama Goes Tuition-Free With $150 Million Gift From David Geffen By Michael Paulson|Jun. 30th, 2021 The $150 million gift will allow Yale School of Drama to stop charging tuition.Credit…Thomas McDonald for The New York Times June 30, 2021 The billionaire David Geffen is giving $150 million to Yale School of Drama, allowing one of the nation’s most prestigious programs to stop charging tuition. The graduate school, which enrolls about 200 students in programs that…
We have an opportunity that I’d like you to consider: Representing the Class to the Yale Alumni Association (YAA), and vice-versa, as our “Delegate” to the YAA.
Formerly known as the AYA, the YAA coordinates all reunions, Class activities, and alumni programs. As our delegate, you’ll participate in the annual November “Assembly” (virtual this year).
Click thru to learn more. If interested, contact me at the email I provided in the article.
Along the way, they said, the university expects the campus to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2035, or “zero” emissions after offsets and other campus reductions in emissions are factored in.
Salovey and Strobel also shared an initial list of fossil fuel companies now ineligible for investment by the Yale endowment in accordance with recently adopted ethical investing principles. And they provided an update on the Planetary Solutions Project, an ambitious campus-wide initiative launched in December 2020 that is bringing the full weight of Yale’s expertise and resources to bear on pressing global crises.
A group of Yale University students and alumni is calling on the Yale Corporation, the university’s governing board, to reinstate a petition process through which aspiring trustees could become candidates for open board seats.
