Category: Yale

Yale Launches Probe of China Investments Over Human Rights Concerns

A committee at one of the world’s most prestigious institutions of learning, Yale University, has launched a probe of the investment of funds from the university’s $42.3 billion endowment in companies active in China that may be complicit in repression and human rights abuses there, the Yale Daily News reported on Jan. 26. According to…


Fighting the Good Fight: Small Wins Against Radical Feminism

Commentary There’s been an exciting outcome to a seven-year battle against an Australian university in Victoria, who torpedoed a man’s PhD. This tenacious man—I’ll call him “Philip”—has just achieved a confidential settlement, which is a tribute to his fighting spirit but also a lesson to us all about the importance of fighting back against anti-male…


COVID-19 a Pandemic of Fear ‘Manufactured’ by Authorities: Yale Epidemiologist

The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of fear, manufactured by individuals who were in the nominal positions of authority as the virus began to spread across the globe last year, according to Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch. In an appearance on EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program, Risch, an epidemiology professor at the Yale School of…


China’s ‘Billionaires’ Are Fake

Commentary Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Joseph Tsai apparently can’t afford their own private jets. They had to borrow money from Credit Suisse to get them, despite each having cashed out over $5 billion in stock since 2017. Where’s all that cash gone? Is it even real? Do they keep it in banks for which they…


Admirable Evasions and the ‘Psychopathic Problem’ at Yale

Commentary In 2015, in my role as publisher of Encounter books, I published “Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality,” a gimlet-eyed analysis of the profession by Theodore Dalrymple. The title, as many readers have recognized comes from “King Lear.” The line is spoken by Edmund, bastard son of the Earl of Gloucester and one of…


Yale Is Dead—and That’s a Good Thing

Commentary When I read the various reports on the virtual talk given at the Yale School of Medicine by Aruna Khilanani, MD, MA—“The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind”—my initial reaction was to cringe at yet another installment of berserk social justice idiocy on campus. How berserk? Here’s a sampling of what the forensic psychiatrist…


US Agents Arrest Man Accused of Killing Yale Student

Federal agents in Alabama on Friday arrested a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student accused of killing a Yale University student in February, ending a months-long nationwide hunt, local media reported. The U.S. Marshals Service said it took Qinxuan Pan into custody in Alabama, an ABC news affiliate in New Haven, Connecticut, reported. Pan was…