My 1970 book is re-released as Aaron Sorkin movie premieres

My 1970 book is re-released as Aaron Sorkin movie premieres

ByGeorge McNamee

Today, Friday, October 16th, The Trial of the Chicago 7 premieres on Netflix.  Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, it is a powerful movie that captures the emotion and excitement of being alive in 1969.  That was our time.

Fifty years ago, two of my movement friends and I produced the Tales of Hoffman which became the definitive edition of the transcript of the trial. […] This year, Simon and Schuster re-released it, renaming it The Trial of the Chicago 7.   Aaron Sorkin has written an introduction to the new edition.

Sorkin also created a screenplay from the book; Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks and Netflix developed it into a film; and it was released today, quickly appearing on Netflix’ “trending …

Class Colloquium 6: Akhil Amar: The Presidency, the Vice-Presidency, and the Constitution

Class Colloquium 6: Akhil Amar: The Presidency, the Vice-Presidency, and the Constitution

ByArthur Segal

On October 28th at 1:30 pm Eastern, Yale Law Professor Akhil Amar will present trenchant observations about the Executive Branch and his recent research into the Vice Presidency and the Constitution.  With a possible electoral crisis in November, having his views and live Q&A may be especially salient.

Join us on the 28th and see why Professor Amar won the DeVane Medal for teaching as well as the Sterling chair for scholarship.   Register in advance now.

How’s that privilege doing? Here’s a report from Class Colloquium 5: Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap

How’s that privilege doing? Here’s a report from Class Colloquium 5: Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap

ByJohn O'Leary

Editor’s Note: This is a summary and video of Professor Markovits’ presentation and Q&A .

The first Colloquium featuring a speaker from the Yale faculty didn’t shy away from challenging some basic assumptions about our “elite education.”

Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits brought his new book, his grasp of econometrics, and his A-game to our September 30th Class Colloquium.

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

ByAdmin

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…

Stopping Trump’s Coup

Stopping Trump’s Coup

ByJim Sleeper

Editor’s Note: from dissentmagazine.org
Stopping Trump’s Coup By Jim Sleeper ▪

Tuesday night’s presidential debate can best be characterized by two of Donald Trump’s favorite words: it was a “disgrace” and a “disaster.” Our challenge now is to think not just morally or theoretically but also politically, in the way that Trump himself […]

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…

Connecting Across the Racial Divide: Two Men at Yale

Connecting Across the Racial Divide: Two Men at Yale

ByWayne Willis

In September ’65, two freshmen arrived at Bingham Hall, assigned to the same entryway. Both had come from highly segregated high schools.  One was black, and he confessed such shock at the sea of white faces that “I couldn’t tell you all apart!  So, I just said ‘hi, there’ and hoped I didn’t need your…

Democratic House chairs: Here’s how we can protect democracy from a lawless president

Democratic House chairs: Here’s how we can protect democracy from a lawless president

ByJohn Yarmuth

Editor’s Note: This is an op-ed John co-authored with other Members of Congress.

In the years following the Watergate scandal, Congress enacted a series of landmark reforms to protect our democracy and restore Americans’ faith in government. […] Though some presidents have bridled at those laws or stretched them, they have fundamentally abided by their limits for 50 years. Until Donald Trump.

Lifelong Learning, New Offering. Are You In?

Lifelong Learning, New Offering. Are You In?

ByWayne Willis

“The main thing I learned at Yale,” I heard more than one classmate say at the reunion, “is how to learn.” Other key features mentioned were the breadth of delicious subjects we had no clue about and a commitment to lifelong learning. “Commencement is not the end,” Kingman said at our graduation.  “It’s the beginning,…

Gregory P. Karampalas – May 26, 2020

Gregory P. Karampalas – May 26, 2020

ByDaniel Seiver

From the North Andover, MA Eagle-Tribune: Haverhill – Gregory P. Karampalas, 73, of Haverhill, passed away Tuesday, May 26, at Carney Hospital in Dorchester. He was born in Haverhill on March 20, 1947, the son of the late Peter and Chrystine (Costarides) Karampalas. Gregory attended the Haverhill Public School System and was a graduate of…

Class Colloquium 5: Professor Daniel Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap; September 30th

Class Colloquium 5: Professor Daniel Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap; September 30th

ByArthur Segal

Professor Markovits’ provocative bestseller, The Meritocracy Trap, compellingly argues that the Meritocracy system, which began with our generation and governs the period of our own Yale Admissions, has become a system with unintended negative societal consequences.

This Class Colloquium will be our first with a speaker from the Yale Faculty. He will challenge bedrock meritocratic assumptions, and he promises to include some “two-way dialogue.”

Register in advance for the event; details will be emailed to you.