One of the most moving experiences journalist April Ryan has had during her 28 years of covering the White House happened while attending an art exhibition with former First Lady Laura Bush.Bush had invited Ryan to walk from the White House across the...
Publishing professionals from around the world will gather at Yale in July for five days of lectures and interactive discussions at the Yale Publishing Course (YPC). Now in its 7th year, YPC offers two programs for mid-to senior-level professionals: “...
In a conversation on “Character, Flourishing, and the Good Life” on Feb. 22, New York Times columnist David Brooks and Yale theologian Miroslav Volf agreed on at least one major point: In today’s world, people are “thirsty” to find deep meaning in their...
Before taking part in a conversation on “Character, Flourishing, and the Good Life” with New York Times columnist David Brooks (see related story), Yale Divinity School professor and long-time associate faculty member in the humanities Miroslav Volf...
April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, will speak at Yale on Thursday, Feb. 25 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.Her talk, titled “The Presidency in Black and White,”will take place at 2 p.m. in the School of Management’s...
The story of American abolitionism is often told in a way that discounts the significance of slave resistance in the antislavery movement and is unnecessarily divided along racial lines, historian Manisha Sinha said in a Feb. 18 panel discussion on campus...
In her just-released book, “The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups” (Viking), noted early childhood educator and Silliman College associate master Erika Christakis argues that most of today’s youngest schoolchildren...