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Mar/Apr 2013

Big man on campus

There is no building at Yale named for William Howard Taft, Class of 1878, the first alumnus of the university to serve as president of the United...

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...

Nov/Dec 2018

A Nobel Prize for counting the cost of carbon

Most Nobel Prize contenders are on high alert this time of year for the fabled early-morning call from Stockholm. But at a press conference held at...

Sep/Oct 2024

SOM's guiding spirit

To find the embodiment of the Yale School of Management’s mission to train leaders in both the private and the public sectors, look no further...

Jan/Feb 2026

Reviews: January/February 2026

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution that Changed America Sam Tanenhaus ’78MARandom House, $40Reviewed by David Greenberg ’90 ...

Sep/Oct 2014

A piece of the puzzle

What Yale collection, renowned among scholars of antiquity worldwide, is virtually unknown to all Yale students except the select few who were smart...

Jul/Aug 2008

Object lesson

A financial bubble bursts, and stock markets around the world are in free fall. Investor exuberance, greed, and folly are widely blamed. How could...

Mar/Apr 2009

First, use plain English

I gave my writing course a plain title, "Nonfiction Workshop." I wanted to serve notice that it was a craft course and that I had no fancy...

Mar/Apr 2023

Infinity has a price

One of Yale’s most intriguing investments is a 375-year-old “perpetual” Dutch bond that still pays interest. It was issued by the...

Sep/Oct 2024

Item of interest

One of the many fascinating objects on display in the newly reopened Peabody Museum is an extraordinary 4,000-year-old document: the Umma-Lagash...

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