This year’s inaugural lecture in the series “In the Company of Scholars” will be broadcast in real time on the Yale LiveStream channel at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30.
Jacob Hacker, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science and director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, will deliver the lecture, titled “Is American Politics Undermining the American Dream?” Hacker will address how rising economic inequality is linked to changes in American politics and policy, with a special emphasis on the current election season.
The lecture will be held in Rm. 119 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. A reception will follow in the McDougal Center common room.
The lecture series, hosted by the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is designed to bring students and professors together across the disciplines to hear talks by distinguished faculty members. It takes its name from the opening words of “Yale: A Short History” by historian George W. Pierson: “Yale is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends.”
