The Internet and the Reform of American Politics in 2021

The Internet and the Reform of American Politics in 2021

ByReed Hundt

Editor’s Note: This is adapted from a memo Reed sent to the Biden Campaign.
A President Biden will face problems larger in scale and scope than any previously presented to the United States. The conjoined COVID-19 crises (aka the “pandemiconomy”) now seem monumentally daunting. Yet they may succumb to easier solutions than the long list of secular challenges that threaten the Republic:
* economic inequality,
* immigration,
* infrastructure,
* national security, […]

Yale Loses A Prominent African Historian and Compassionate “Gentle Giant”

Yale Loses A Prominent African Historian and Compassionate “Gentle Giant”

ByTimothy Weiskel

I wanted to share a short “In Memorium” note for one of the professors who taught us while we were at Yale. His name is Prosser Gifford.  He went to Hotchkiss School and then Yale and then to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.  Then, after a stint at Harvard Law School, he returned to finish a PHD in history at Yale and start teaching African History as an Assistant Professor. The reason why he was…

The Future of Communications: Reed Hundt on Current Issues and Tough Choices

The Future of Communications: Reed Hundt on Current Issues and Tough Choices

ByDaniel Seiver

The 3rd Class Colloquium in our series was a huge success as Reed Hundt took us on a Greyline Tour of the issues being debated right now in Congress and how revolutions in communications and computing amplify both the possibilities and the threats coming soon. Here is the recording of Reed’s presentation and the Q&A.  It’s well worth listening to. After revealing “the seven tech stocks I own” — partly for fun and partly as…

How One Student Chose a College During a Pandemic

How One Student Chose a College During a Pandemic

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  How One Student Chose a College During a Pandemic Craig McFarland was accepted by all eight Ivy League schools. At first he committed to Yale, but the ongoing disruptions caused by the coronavirus caused him to change his plans. By Johnny Diaz  July 17, 2020, When he was applying to colleges last year, Craig McFarland of Jacksonville, Fla., aimed high and wide. He received 17 acceptance letters in all, including one from each of the…

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. as a way to help contextualize recent events. Yale University offers a free course, called “African American History: From Emancipation…

Echo in the Canyon     

Echo in the Canyon     

ByJohn O'Leary

Echo in the Canyon is an 82-minute rock doc that traces the music of this period—1965 to 1967—through the songs of The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Beach Boys, and Mamas and Papas.  These pop pioneers lived, hung out, and swapped songs (and occasionally lovers) in the Hollywood Hills in a woodsy region known as Laurel Canyon.  It quickly became an innovation nexus that changed music forever.
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I was hooked from the start, beginning with the opening chords of “Turn! Turn! Turn!” through “The Bells of Rhymney” and “Wild Mountain Thyme.” These Byrds’ classics played well against the sweeping aerial visuals of Laurel Canyon. Highlights […]

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 on hold Wednesday until at least January, making it the first Division I conference that will not play football as…

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 reminder of our past it doesn’t like, and if woke institutions like Yale, bloated with too much money and far…

ClassColloquium 3: Reed Hundt on the Future of Communication: Data, Privacy, and State Control

ClassColloquium 3: Reed Hundt on the Future of Communication: Data, Privacy, and State Control

ByDaniel Seiver

In 1996, as midwife to the last major overhaul of the US telecommunications policy, Reed was exquisitely prepared to address the knotty problems arising from — and possible policy responses to — the issues attendant to social media, e-commerce, and online privacy, and the dangers of media concentration, Russian trolls, Chinese hackers, “deep fake” videos, and other ills of our internet-based future.

Register now to attend: July 22nd, 1:00 PM EDT.

Save The Dates: Medved and Markovits Class Colloquia

Save The Dates: Medved and Markovits Class Colloquia

ByArthur Segal

I’m happy to report that we have two more confirmed speakers for this Autumn — our very own Michael Medved who will give his unique view of the Trump presidency and the upcoming election, and our first faculty participant, Professor Daniel Markovits, who has a very provocative book out on how “Meritocracy” has undercut key elements of American society. Click thru to REGISTER for each of the talks.

Class Notes – Jul/Aug 2020

Class Notes – Jul/Aug 2020

ByDaniel Seiver

Three more times the bell has tolled:  Dick MacKay, Jim Steffenburg, and Terry Miller are gone. Howard Newman reported Dick’s death on March 26: “Dr. Richard MacKay died today after a life of service to others and a cruelly unfair illness.” Howard and others are working on a full memorial of Dick’s life which will appear in my next column and, much sooner, on the class website. Jim Steffenburg died peacefully on February 27 at…

Podcasts: Not Yet

Podcasts: Not Yet

ByWayne Willis

Editor’s Note: This is a report from the survey about classmates “consuming” podcasts, including lists of the podcasts they listen to.
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Wow, was I wrong!  I love podcasts and spend more time listening than I do watching TV.  But of the 42 classmates responding to a “quick survey,” 12 had never listened to a podcast on a phone or tablet because they were […]

Yale named Top Ten Center of Biomedical Research by The Hartwell Foundation

Yale named Top Ten Center of Biomedical Research by The Hartwell Foundation

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 from  news.yale.edu science laboratory test tubes , lab equipment for research new medical Jun. 24th, 2020 Yale University has been designated by The Hartwell Foundation as a Top Ten Center of Biomedical Research for 2020, garnering this distinction for its strengths in child health research in alignment with the foundation’s philanthropic mission. As a Top Ten Center, Yale will have the opportunity to submit an increased number of applications to The Hartwell Foundation’s Individual Biomedical Research Award…

Conservatives troll leftists with ‘#CancelYale’

Conservatives troll leftists with ‘#CancelYale’

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from:  campusreform.org Conservatives troll leftists with ‘#CancelYale’ Jun. 22nd, 2020 As colleges move to take down statues and change building names, conservatives challenged “cancel culture” by pointing out that Yale University’s founder was literally a slave trader. “Yale University was named for Elihu Yale. Not just a man who had slaves. An actual slave trader. I call on @Yale to change it’s [sic] name immediately and strip the name of Yale from every building, piece…

Class Colloquium 2 Video: Yarmuth on Policy and Politics

Class Colloquium 2 Video: Yarmuth on Policy and Politics

ByArthur Segal

A highly successful second Class Colloquium featured John Yarmuth reporting on the current situation in our Congress … and then fielding questions from classmates on a broad variety of issues.

On a Wednesday afternoon in June, John presented some prepared remarks on the Congress’s failure to address some long-term issues he is concerned about:  AI (especially automation unemployment), climate […]

Yale’s Stephen Roach calls a 35% drop in the US dollar

Yale’s Stephen Roach calls a 35% drop in the US dollar

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from fxstreet.com Yale’s Stephen Roach calls a 35% drop in the US dollar Yale University’s senior fellow Stephen Roach, one of the world’s leading authorities on Asia, expects the US dollar to decline by 35% against other major currencies due to ballooning fiscal deficits. “The U.S. economy has been afflicted with some significant macro imbalances for a long time, namely a very low domestic savings rate and a chronic current account deficit,” Roach told CNBC’s…