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Sep/Oct 2014

Remembering Rob

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Jeff Hobbs ’02 Scribner, $27 Reviewed by...

Nov/Dec 2014

Stephanie the Riveter

These photographs of Stephanie Cewe working in a New Haven toy factory—on toy trains (right) and, during World War II, on a flare...

Nov/Dec 2014

Iconic. Almost by accident.

When the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale unveiled one of the largest murals in the world, shortly after World War II, the New York Times...

Nov/Dec 2014

The Prince of Peace?

In a provocative reading of the Gospels, a Yale professor suggests that Christ and his disciples were—at least on one fateful...

Jan/Feb 2015

When everything’s in a name

How important are the names of Yale’s two new residential colleges? When the colleges open, in fall 2017, they’ll be just two Yale...

Jan/Feb 2015

Challenging the unchallengeable (sort of)

“The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable...

Jan/Feb 2015

Yale’s World War I flying ace

“I found myself all alone against four Germans with only one motor,” wrote pilot William Thaw, Class of 1915, in a 1915 letter to his...

Jan/Feb 2015

Works received

CDs Gerald Cohen ’82 Sea of Reeds: Works for Clarinet and Chamber Ensemble Navona Records, $14.99 Brendan Hughes ’04CDR The Pizzicato...

Mar/Apr 2015

Works received

Books Peter Ahrensdorf ’80 Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue: Creating the Foundations of Classical Civilization Cambridge University Press...

Mar/Apr 2015

Nature, nurture, and nativity

The link between obesity and the FTO gene—the so-called “fat gene”—is so well established that it’s literally a...

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