Corporate capital and Trump’s coup: Will business elites take a stand?

Corporate capital and Trump’s coup: Will business elites take a stand?

ByJim Sleeper

Corporate capital and Trump’s coup: Will business elites take a stand? Trump’s war on democracy is clearly bad for business — but the leaders of corporate America helped create this mess By JIM SLEEPER Nov. 20th, 2020 The latest news out of Michigan — in which the current occupant of the White House has not only summoned Republican legislative leaders to meet with him but pressured two members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers into attempting to rescind their…

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.

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, the beginning of a lifelong process of extending your knowledge and awareness well beyond what you know today … and…

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.

FDA approves COVID-19 saliva test developed at Yale

FDA approves COVID-19 saliva test developed at Yale

ByAdmin

from USA Today FDA approves COVID-19 saliva test developed at Yale in partnership with the NBA, NBPA Jeff Zillgitt USA TODAY A saliva-based COVID-19 test developed by researchers at Yale in partnership and funding from the NBA and National Basketball Players Association was approved on Saturday for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Called SalivaDirect, the test uses saliva samples to detect COVID-19. SalivaDirect is non-invasive and requires just a small sample, reducing…