Social Sciences

A new study suggests that White Americans with liberal views use language that makes them appear less competent in an effort to get along with minorities.

In a close election, we’ll never really know who “really” won. We’ll just know that the second, error-filled count decided.

Stephen L. Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law (Henry Holt and Co.)

David W. Blight, the Class of 1954 Professor of History (Simon & Schuster)

Thirukodikaval Nilakanta “T.N.” Srinivasan, the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale, died on Nov. 11 in Chennai, India. He was 85.

The legend of cultural Marxism recycles old anti-Semitic tropes to give those who feel threatened a scapegoat.

On Nov. 13, Rebecca Corbett, Alex Wagner, Meredith Talusan, and Patricia Russo will discuss “#MeToo Evolving: People, Politics + Power” as Poynter Fellows.

Yale’s newest Sterling Professor, sociologist Elijah Anderson hopes his work can broaden our understandings of race, life, and culture in America’s cities.

Renowned urban ethnographer Elijah Anderson was recently appointed Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies.

Douglass argued that “we ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe.”