17+ hour, 42+ min ago   (668+ words) The podcast, produced by The Atlantic in partnership with Yale, will bring together academics and other experts to examine life’s “permanent questions.” David Brooks (at right) with Yale philosophy professor Shelly Kagan. David Brooks, a Presidential Senior Fellow at the…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (280+ words) YaleNews In the dark days following the Sept. 11 attacks, a Yale alumnus helped the nation see a bit of light again. Richard Nash Gould ’68 ’72 M. Arch. co-created “Tribute in Light,” the now-iconic public art installation of two beams of light…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (175+ words) Nancy Yousef, who joined the Yale faculty in 2025, explores the interplay between Romantic literature, the philosophers who shaped them, and the thinkers who came next. Nancy Yousef, a scholar of Romanticism whose research explores the vital intersections between philosophy and…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (411+ words) YaleNews Marlene L. Daut, a literary and intellectual historian of the Caribbean, has been named the Chester D. Tripp Professor of Black Studies and of French, effective July 1. She joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2022. Her most recent book, “The…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (891+ words) In this edition of Humanitas, a podcast celebrates 100 years at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, a Yale student reflects on ‘America at 250,’ and new faculty books (and summer recommendations) offer a bounty of reading. The latest edition of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (307+ words) Focal Point A meditation on urban loneliness YaleNews What to know: American realist painter Edward Hopper’s works frequently explore themes of urban isolation in the postwar era, when psychology first recognized loneliness as a modern-day problem. Unlike Hopper’s other masterpiece…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (211+ words) For a middle-school teacher, engaging in a collegial exchange of ideas for the classroom. “The professor was amazing,” she said. “We learned so many things about Russia, and my project was a comparison between Panama — because I’m Panamanian — Russia, and…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (954+ words) An iconic sculpture has been restored and relocated to the Yale Art Gallery’s sculpture garden, improving public access to a campus landmark that caused a stir when it was erected on Beinecke Plaza in 1969. In the fall of 1968, a group…...