Richard Blanco, who gained national renown when he read his poem “One Today” at President Obama’s second inauguration, will be at Yale on Tuesday, Feb. 5, for a tea hosted by Stephen Pitti, master of Ezra Stiles College.The event, which is Blanco’s first...
North Korea, which just conducted its third nuclear test, is using its weapons program to deter the United States by holding its allies “hostage,” according to Paul Bracken, who teaches management and political science at Yale.The spread of the atom bomb...
In the Dwight H. Terry lectures to be delivered at Yale March 26–April 4, Philip Kitcher, a preeminent scholar of the philosophy of science, will defend secular humanism against common criticism and explore its positive benefits.Philip KitcherTitled “...
Roman Catholics around the world learned yesterday (March 13) that they had a new pope. Among them was Teresa Berger, professor of liturgical studies at Yale Divinity School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, who has a keen interest in Vatican...
In an interview with Laura Bush that aired April 25 on NPR, the former First Lady mentioned that her husband had taken up the hobby of painting at the suggestion of Yale professor John Gaddis. YaleNews asked the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian how he...
As a lead-up to the forthcoming History Channel series “Vikings,” Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR’s “On Point,” talked with a foremost authority on the subject — Yale’s Anders Winroth — to de-mystify the legendary raiders of the North.
Winroth is professor and...