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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2 old rightwing yale donors want prestigious program taught "the way Henry Kissinger would"
Leader of Prestigious Yale Program Resigns, Citing Donor PressureThe historian Beverly Gage, who has run the Grand Strategy course since 2017, says the university failed to stand up for academic freedom amid inappropriate efforts to influence the curriculum.
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The donors, both prominent and deep-pocketed, are Nicholas F. Brady, a former U.S. Treasury secretary under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and Charles B. Johnson, a mutual fund billionaire and leading Republican donor who in 2013 made a $250 million donation to Yale the largest gift in its history.
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But she said the tone abruptly changed last November, a week after the presidential election, when Bryan Garsten, a Yale political scientist who teaches in the program, published an opinion article called How to Protect America From the Next Donald Trump.
The next day, Professor Gage received an email from Mr. Hill saying Mr. Brady had called to grouse about the article, complaining that there was no grand strategy in it. According to the email, which was viewed by The Times, Mr. Brady also said that this is not what Charlie Johnson and I signed up for. (Mr. Hill died last March, at 84.)
In a phone call with Professor Gage that day, Mr. Brady reiterated his view and began asking about the syllabus and practitioners. It was strange, because none of that had changed much in the past three years, she said.
Representatives for Mr. Brady, 91, and Mr. Johnson, 88, said they were unavailable for comment.
In another phone call, on Nov. 13, Professor Gage said, Mr. Brady lamented that the program isnt what it was. When she pressed for specifics, he said she wasnt teaching Grand Strategy the way Henry Kissinger would.
I said, Thats absolutely right. I am not teaching Grand Strategy the way Henry Kissinger would, she said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/arts/yale-grand-strategy-resignation.html
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2 old rightwing yale donors want prestigious program taught "the way Henry Kissinger would" (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Oct 2021
OP
If the class was retitled "Wat Crimes and the Criminals who Commit Them" that would be
Comfortably_Numb
Oct 2021
#1
These two geezers want the professors to teach in big handlebar mustaches holding buggy whips ...
marble falls
Oct 2021
#2
Comfortably_Numb
(3,806 posts)1. If the class was retitled "Wat Crimes and the Criminals who Commit Them" that would be
befitting the grand strategy of Henry Kissinger.
marble falls
(57,081 posts)2. These two geezers want the professors to teach in big handlebar mustaches holding buggy whips ...
... by candle light?
Response to marble falls (Reply #2)
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Tetrachloride
(7,839 posts)3. Kissinger is why i came to be against all Nobel Prizes for politicians
Kid Berwyn
(14,901 posts)4. Henry Kissinger on democracy in Chile...
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
Source: https://www.tni.org/es/node/13324
So Nixon and Henry ordered CIA director Helms to overthrow President Allende. Gee. That sounds exactly like how the GOP oligarchs feel about democracy in the USA today!
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)5. The fact he and David Rockefeller were behind the Shah
being let in in 1979 and causing the Iranian revolution and hostage taking should be taught in every school.
Autumn
(45,071 posts)7. Fuck that war criminal and his sycophants.