As a teenager in the army learning the French horn, Willie Ruff ’53M, ’54 M.M. was taught that “music don’t mean a thing unless it tells a story.” Though he will retire this May after 46 years on the School of Music faculty, the 85-year-old Ruff says he...
When democracies fail, they often do so gradually at the hands of elected leaders who enjoy robust support from voters, according to Milan Svolik, associate professor of political science at Yale. In fact, since the 1990s, executive takeovers have...