“We are at an extremely dangerous moment today. Never have the relations between Russia and the United States… been at this level,” said the Russian-American journalist Vladimir Pozner to a standing-room-only crowd at Luce Hall on Sept. 27. “During the...
“We must remember … that a boycott is not an end within itself,” the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. once said of the infamous Montgomery bus boycott he helped to lead. “But the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the...
Growing up in the mostly white San Francisco suburb of Mill Valley, California, the author and illustrator MariNaomi always considered herself Japanese — until she tried to learn how to speak the language. “I’m not Japanese,” she told a crowd of students...
To understand modern Chinese science fiction, argues scholar Mingwei Song, one must grapple with different forms of invisibility.
Song, an associate professor of Chinese at Wellesley College, visited Yale on March 4 to deliver a Kemp Fund Lecture on “The...
Yale’s Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Air Force cadets and Navy midshipmen will parade in full uniform at the fifth annual President’s Review ceremony on Thursday, April 4 at 11 a.m. in the Lee Amphitheater of Payne Whitney Gymnasium.
The annual...
With social distancing mandates in effect across the country, millions of Americans are preventing the spread of COVID-19 by avoiding groups of people and hunkering down at home.
But distancing, while an effective public health policy, can lead to boredom...
Writing on the occasion of his 90th birthday at his home in Fair Haven, Yale alumnus Jonathan Maltby (Class of 1779) recalled his college years “in the time of the Revolution.”
“A war spirit prevailed in all the old 13,” wrote Maltby, who arrived on...
What do John of Patmos, Mary Shelley, and George A. Romero have in common? Each is responsible for an apocalypse.
Stories about the world ending have been around almost as long as written literature — since well before John’s Book of Revelation, Shelley’s...
“I come from a people who have been institutionally, chronically, systemically, hated for 400 years, [and] taught the world so much about how to love,” said Cornel West to a packed house at Battell Chapel on Feb. 3. That theme — of grace, courage,...
When Nellie Conover-Crockett ’22 completed a gingerbread replica of Sterling Memorial Library in 2020, the Yale College junior set a standard for edible architecture that even James Gamble Rogers might have struggled to meet.
For her senior year, she...