The Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale is excited to celebrate the publication of Ed Rugemer’s new book, Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World. On Wed., February 27th, at 5pm in LC101, Ed will be joined in conversation with Jim Oakes and Anne Eller, with David Blight moderating.
David Blight, the 1954 Professor of American History at Yale, was recently honored with the 2019 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize from Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History for his book “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.”
Yale senior Fernando Rojas and alumnus Dhruv Nandamudi are among 34 Americans selected as 2019 Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge.
Yale senior David Yaffe-Bellany and alumna Amelia Nierenberg ’18 have been selected for the inaugural class of fellows at The New York Times for 2019-2020. The New York Times Fellowship is a one-year work program aimed at “cultivating the next generation of journalists.”
The two, who both wrote for the Yale Daily News during their time at Yale, were selected from among some 5,000 applicants for the fellowship, which for recent graduates of college and graduate school.
There’s a deeply ingrained image of Connecticut that has just a few core characteristics. It’s a place of small towns, a Colonial heritage, prosperous suburbs, great schools and Yankee innovation and ingenuity. Connecticut, according to this image, is a place of respite, where the rich, powerful and famous have getaway homes. It’s a place that’s pro-business. It’s fiercely local, with 169 defiantly independent towns crowded into a tiny state.
Having ignored questions of economic inequality for decades, economists and other scholars have recently discovered a panoply of effects that go well beyond the fact that some people have too much money and many don’t have enough. Inequality affects our physical and mental health, our ability to get along with one another and to make our voices heard and our political system accountable, and, of course, the futures that we can offer our children. Lately, I’ve noticed a feature of economic inequality that has not received the attention it deserves. I call it “intellectual inequality.”