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27Jan By 3 Comments
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Reflections on Christina Hoff Sommers

The Buckley Program's recent guest speaker, Christina Hoff Sommers, gave a lecture on her vision for "freedom" feminism, and sparked an important conversation around campus about feminism and women's rights. In the hopes of providing a small snapshot of this reaction, The Beacon features both an opinion piece of a current Buckley fellow, Karina Kovalcik, and an official statement issued by the Yale Women's Center. It is our hope that these two responses foster additional discussion and reflection. Opinion Piece by Karina Kovalcik On Thursday night, Christina Hoff Sommers came to Yale’s campus and gave a talk on modern-day feminism. Since Yale is a breeding ground for motivated, driven, and strong, independent women, a feminist coming to give a talk doesn’t seem that out of place. How...
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1Oct By No Comments
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Prof. Kagan on Democracy & Education

Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics at Yale and a member of the Buckley Program's Board, recently penned an editorial in the Wall Street Journal. In his piece, Prof. Kagan explains the importance of instilling civic values through school curricula. His argument comes in the wake of multiple protests by students and faculty in Colorado opposing changes in a school district's history curriculum that would promote citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority. Prof. Kagan underscores the need for "justified and informed patriotism" through a historical analysis of ideas about education. The civic sense that America needs can come only from a common educational effort. In telling the story of the American political experience, we m...
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14Sep By No Comments
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This Week’s Update

This week has been a long one for members of the Buckley Program. Here are a few links to some of the Program's media coverage, as the lecture with Ayaan Hirsi Ali nears: First there's Rich Lizardo's op-ed in the Yale Daily News, as well as the National Review's editorial on the subject. Additionally, Megyn Kelly's show on FOX News, The Kelly File, featured the Buckley Program on Friday night's show. See here. Some other articles that may be of interest: - National Review: Yale's Buckley Program Under Fire for Inviting Ayaan Hirsi Ali to Campus  - Yale Daily News: Groups embroiled in controversy over speaker - Breitbart: Yale Buckley Program to Continue With Hirsi Ali Lecture Following Pressure to Withdraw Invite
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3Sep By No Comments
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Yale Daily News Writes about our Latest Efforts

Today, the Yale Daily News published a story on the Buckley Program's latest efforts. The piece includes descriptions of some of our fall programming, as well as quotes from our Executive Director and several of our board members. It also discusses the origins of the Buckley Program, and the mission that continues to guide our work to this day. We encourage you to check it out!  
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30Aug By No Comments
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TWIB: Failed Foreign Policy in the Middle East

Editors' note: This week, following President Obama's recent "We don't have a strategy yet" gaffe, we turn to WFB's take on the foreign policy of a different president. As part of his syndicated column called On the Right, Buckley wrote the following piece with the title "Now Do You Understand?" and with a bit of his usual wit. Originally published on August 22, 1980, this piece criticizes President Carter for trying to resolve the hostage crisis in Iran by appealing to the Ayatollah through none other than Muammar Qaddafi. We've added in some links for a few other figures as well. Take a look.  (more…)
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20Aug By No Comments
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TWIB: Bill Buckley and Big Words

Editors' note: Every week, the Editors will select an article by or a video of Bill Buckley as part of our "This Week in Buckley" series, or TWIB for short. We hope you enjoy!In all his years of writing, Bill Buckley had a penchant for using big words, and this style of his did not go without criticism. In fact, an editor once wrote to him, saying that he assumed that Buckley used big words because "(1) you like to show off, and (2) you take delight in irritating people." In response to these charges and others, Buckley defended his vast vocabulary in a noteworthy op-ed in The New York Times from 1986.  (more…)
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19Aug By No Comments
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Were Gov. Malloy’s Accusations True?

Here in Connecticut, Governor Dan Malloy recently made some false accusations against his opponent, Tom Foley, in the upcoming gubernatorial election. Our executive director, Lauren Noble, contends in the New Haven Register that Malloy is just trying to distract from his own record. (more…)
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