Curated playlist
Yale University faculty
- David A. BellHistorian David A. Bell argues nationalism was built, not natural. He traces it in France from 1680 to 1800.
- Joseph StiglitzJoseph Stiglitz explained why wages stay high in recessions even when workers are desperate for jobs.
- Odd Arne WestadOdd Arne Westad argues the Cold War was not mainly a European story. His work made "global Cold War" a standard term.
- James TobinJames Tobin proposed a tax on currency trading to throw sand in the wheels of speculation.
- C. Vann WoodwardC. Vann Woodward argued that Jim Crow was chosen late, not inherited from Southern tradition.
- Scott BessentScott Bessent won Senate confirmation as United States secretary of the treasury on the 27th of January 2025, by a vote of 68-29. On that same day, a man carrying several Molotov cocktails and a knife, who intended to murder him, was…
- Wendell WallachCan a machine be built to make genuinely ethical decisions? Bioethicist Wendell Wallach studies that question.
- Harold BloomHarold Bloom argued that every poet struggles to escape the shadow of earlier poets.
- Yves BonnefoyYves Bonnefoy refused to call himself a poet. He said he was a critic or a historian.
- Cornel WestYale punished Cornel West for a protest arrest by canceling his 1987 spring leave. He then commuted to Paris to teach.
- Robert J. ShillerRobert J. Shiller called the stock market a bubble in his 2000 book Irrational Exuberance. He shared a Nobel in 2013.
- David W. BlightYale asked historian David W. Blight to investigate Yale's own ties to slavery. His 2024 book gave the answer.
- John Lewis GaddisGeorge F. Kennan trusted historian John Lewis Gaddis with his papers, and the biography won a Pulitzer Prize.