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Sep/Oct 2008

Our readers respond

Education and morals Stanley Fish revels in the moral irrelevance of education, but his essay ("Education: The Deflationary View," Forum...

Sep/Oct 2008

In print

The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about ItRobert J. Shiller, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of...

Sep/Oct 2008

The Yalie behind the American dictionary

Noah Webster (1758–1843), Class of 1778, was the son of a West Hartford, Connecticut, farmer who mortgaged the family farm to pay for his...

Nov/Dec 2008

Love it? Hate it? Or both?

"Just one thing I want you to know up front," I replied when the editors of this magazine asked if I'd come back to New Haven to review Yale's...

Nov/Dec 2008

Press run

Yale University Press is celebrating its hundredth anniversary; perhaps some self-congratulation is in order. By way of being 100, YUP has spewed...

Nov/Dec 2008

Robert Shiller, the Cassandra of capitalism

I have a confession to make. In October 2007, I read a New York Times column by Robert J. Shiller. "The economy is feeling a chill," he wrote. "Is...

Nov/Dec 2008

The man who invented radio

In 1924, Lee De Forest (1873–1961) returned to his alma mater to speak about his new invention, "talking movies." De Forest, who had graduated...

Jan/Feb 2009

Abraham Lincoln spoke here

In 2009, the nation will mark the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. As the Bicentennial Commission established by Congress stated...

Mar/Apr 2009

School Notes

School of Architecture Robert A. M. Stern, Dean www.architecture.yale.edu Perspecta issues publishedThe latest issues of Perspecta, the widely read...

May/Jun 2009

It's not just pizza anymore

Try an analogy from your SAT days: New Haven : Food :: A) oil : water B) swamp : malaria C) Old Lyme : ticks D) beach : rash E) Tahoe : skiing...

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