Fred C. Robinson, the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor Emeritus of English, died at home in New Haven on May 5. He was 85 years old.
Fred C. Robinson
Robinson was renowned as a philologist gifted at tracing the shape of texts and as a critic sensitive to Old...
What follows was written by George Chochos, who on May 23 earned his Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School. That is a major accomplishment for any Yale student, but for Chochos, it was especially sweet. Just over 15 years ago, Chochos was...
Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science, grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era. He recalls that people there could easily list the regime’s injustices, but often struggled to describe a just alternative.This observation — people...