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Category Archives: Yale
Steven B. Smith and the Vocation of Liberal Education
Steven B. Smith (b. 1951) belongs to a fading generation of political theorists who treat the older humanistic understanding of their subject as compatible with, and even necessary for, the modern research university. Across four decades at Yale, where he … Continue reading
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Love, Marriage & Constitutional Law
Robert Post (b. 1947) and Reva Siegel (b. 1956) are a married couple at Yale Law. Post was Yale Law’s dean from 2009 to 2017. Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law. They have co-authored extensively, including the … Continue reading
David Bromwich – Critic, Moralist & The Last Man Of Letters
Yale English professor David Bromwich belongs to a lineage that has nearly run out. He is an essayist-critic in the tradition of William Hazlitt (1778-1830) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), for whom criticism is a moral activity rather than a … Continue reading
The Tacit No-Go Zones At Each Ivy League University
Every Ivy League campus runs on unspoken rules about what can and cannot be said, and by whom, and in what tone. The formal rules matter less than the atmosphere. At all eight schools, the enforcement is decentralized: comp (club … Continue reading
The Tacit Arrangements At Yale
Yale operates on a logic of terminal consecration. Harvard subjects students to a continuous status audit from the moment they arrive. Comps, final club punches, and internship cycles create a relentless ranking engine. Yale delays this process. The undergraduate years … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Yale English Department Faculty Now
Yale English faculty believe their department’s commitment to close reading as a foundational disciplinary practice represents a genuine intellectual standard that distinguishes serious literary scholarship from adjacent fields rather than a sacred value whose primary function is to stabilize the … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders At Yale University Now
Yale’s administration believes its handling of campus protests, donor relationships, and federal pressure reflects principled application of the Woodward Report’s free expression framework rather than selective enforcement that protects speech Yale’s leadership finds congenial while discovering procedural grounds to restrict … Continue reading
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Caleb Smith – The Warden’s Critic
Yale English department chairman Caleb Smith grew up in Arkansas, in a world where power operated without the psychic refinements that the northeastern intellectual tradition associates with discipline. Clinton, Walmart, Tyson Poultry, evangelical preachers: this was a political economy that … Continue reading
The Oracle Who Knows He Is the Oracle Is Still the Oracle
Charles Taylor’s buffered self is the modern identity that has learned to maintain distance from its own enthusiasms, that experiences the world through a protective layer of interpretive awareness rather than being directly moved by what it encounters. The enchanted … Continue reading
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Yale’s English Department & The Culture of Discipline
Tenured full professors, the Director of Graduate Studies, the Department Chair, and the senior hiring-committee gatekeepers at the Yale English Department do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking languages of Close Reading Excellence, … Continue reading