Jim Sleeper, a writer and teacher on American civic culture and politics and a lecturer in political science at Yale, is the author of 'The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York' (W.W. Norton, 1990) and 'Liberal Racism' (Viking, 1997, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). More of his articles and commentary are available at jimsleeper.com.
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Published in: HomeGlobe-trotting universities serve diplomacy and markets, not democracyAmerican liberal arts colleges are embracing collaborations with authoritarian regimes worldwide, with implications...
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Published in: HomeThe significance of the resignation of Yale's President
Yale's President lost the support of his faculty. His preplacement must understand that the University, enshrining...
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Published in: HomeHow Yale becomes more Confucian, rather than Singapore more civic-republicanYale's Singaporean adventure, continued ... The crucible of civic-republican leadership is compromising its soul for...
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Published in: HomeYale's Singaporean adventure - a victory for the ideals of the republic?
Yale's Singaporean adventure may still be going ahead, even after a faculty rebellion over the issue. But the vote...
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Published in: HomeUniversity campuses in the Far East - money, power or democracy?
Yale should have proud independence from the lures of power and money in its bones. That does not mean shunning...
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Published in: HomeRessentiment: how sniping at OWS feeds a dangerous populism
The right criticises OWS because it lacks order ... or surreptitiously injects hierarchy; because it respects...