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.

Class Notes – Nov/Dec 2020

Class Notes – Nov/Dec 2020

ByDaniel Seiver

Your scribe has been notified of four more deaths of classmates: Jerry Schnitt, Gregory Kampalas, Morrison Bonpasse and Gene Buzzard.

Steve Bemis forwarded this New Haven Register obituary: “Jerome M. Schnitt, MD (“Jerry”), 73, of Guilford, CT passed away peacefully on Tuesday morning, June 9, 2020 after a decade-long battle with cancer….An academic by nature, Jerry graduated from Yale University (Trumbull College) in 1969 before attending Medical School at West Virginia University. He subsequently completed his psychiatric residency […]

Report and Recording from Class Colloquium 6: Akhil Amar on The Presidency, Vice-Presidency and The Constitution

Report and Recording from Class Colloquium 6: Akhil Amar on The Presidency, Vice-Presidency and The Constitution

ByRussell Osgood

Here is the recording of Class Colloquium 6, Akhil Amar on the constitution.

We opened this event up to Yale classes 67 – 73 and had almost 500 registrants! Given the impending election, the crowd was restive, but Professor Amar, a gifted teacher, gave us a great context with which to view current events.

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…

Suing Google Won’t Help Consumers

Suing Google Won’t Help Consumers

ByGeorge Priest

Editor’s Note: This is an op-ed published by classmate George Priest, a professor at Yale Law School.

The U.S. Justice Department and 11 states filed an antitrust claim against Google Tuesday alleging illegal monopolization. The lawsuit follows the release earlier this month of a voluminous report by the House Judiciary Committee arguing that the four major U.S. internet platforms—Google, Amazon,  Apple and Facebook —are monopolies and ought to be broken […]

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

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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…

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…