Chris Hedges / TruthdigDec 8, 2008
The multiple failures that beset the country can be laid at the feet of our elite universities. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford, along with most other elite schools, do a poor job educating students to think. They focus instead on creating hordes of competent systems managers. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 14, 2007
Nearly two weeks after a group of San Francisco high school students assaulted the members of a Yale all-male a capella singing group -- leaving two hospitalized -- charges of homophobia, a police cover-up and local political indifference are making headway in the national news media
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Cops finish questioning singers (two weeks late)
<!--Check out a recent (non-attack) video of the Yale singing group, The Baker's Dozen-->. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 21, 2006
Politics trumped academic integrity, says Nation writer Philip Weiss, when a neocon network torpedoed the appointment of Mideast scholar and blogger Juan Cole to a faculty position at Yale. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 10, 2006
The 37-year-old former Rhodes scholar, who is black, won in a landslide. (His last mayoral campaign was the focus of the Oscar-nominated "Street Fight.") Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 20, 2006
The liberal U. of Michigan historian and outspoken Bush administration critic is reportedly close to receiving a tenured teaching position at Yale University. But a group of conservatives, led by a Yale and a Harvard student, are trying to queer the deal by painting Cole as anti-Semitic. Glenn Greenwald has the goods; Jane Hamsher has more. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 13, 2006
The bold and unconventional former Yale chaplain became internationally renowned for his activism against the Vietnam War and in support of civil rights. He died at 81 of congestive heart failure. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 14, 2006
In the wake of The New York Times Magazine's cover story on the former Taliban official attending Yale, alumni are setting up protest websites designed to hurt fundraising efforts. Yale mostly won't talk, but one university official responded by calling the critics "retarded." (Hat tip: Huff Po) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 28, 2006
How did the Taliban's chief spokesman abroad end up a student at Yale? The New York Times Magazine has the story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 18, 2006
A prudish Harvard student, writing in a conservative campus newspaper, says the following of Yale's annual ode to sex: "I don't see how bringing a Playboy stripper to campus is helping anything."
No surprise there. The Yale contingent at Truthdig knows from experience that Cantabs are sooooo uptight. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 9, 2006
Profile of rise through right-wing ranks; "Constitution does not protect a right to abortion." | moreAlso: Check out our extensive paper trail on the nominee. | link Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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