On Saturday, May 23, at 8:30am at The Study at Yale (1157 Chapel St, New Haven), the Buckley Institute is hosting a panel titled, “How to Improve Intellectual Diversity at Yale” with Yale Sterling Professor of English David Bromwich, Yale Law School Guido Calabresi Professor of Law Daniel Markovits, and Manhattan Institute Director of Higher Education Policy and Senior Fellow John Sailer.
Breakfast will begin at 8:30am followed by the panel at 9:00am. Advance registration is required. This event is free.
Space is limited. RSVP by May 17 to Isabelle Hargrove at 203-745-0571 or Isabelle@BuckleyInstitute.com
David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. A cultural critic and literary scholar, Bromwich has written and edited a number of volumes, which span the fields of Romanticism, modern poetry, moral philosophy, and political writing. He began his academic career at Princeton University, where he was named Mellon Professor of English. Bromwich began teaching at Yale University in 1988. From 1991 to 1994, he served as Director of Yale University’s Whitney Humanities Center. Bromwich’s titles include
How Words Make Things Happen (Oxford University Press, 2019),
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke (Harvard University Press, 2014), and
Moral Imagination (Princeton University Press, 2014). Bromwich’s first book,
Hazlitt: The Mind of A Critic (Oxford University Press, 1983), was named a 1984 National Book Critics Circle finalist in criticism. Bromwich has edited critical editions that include
On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters of Edmund Burke (Yale University Press, 2000) and, most recently,
Writing Politics: An Anthology (New York Review of Books Classics, 2020). He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Daniel Markovits is the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Private Law. Markovits publishes widely and in a range of disciplines, including law, philosophy, and economics. His writings have appeared in
Science,
The American Economic Review,
The Yale Law Journal,
PNAS,
The New York Times,
The Washington Post,
Time, and
The Atlantic. In 2021,
Prospect Magazine named him to its list of the world’s top 50 thinkers.
His current book,
The Meritocracy Trap (Penguin Press, 2019), develops a sustained attack on American meritocracy. The book places meritocracy at the center of rising economic inequality and social and political dysfunction. The book takes up the law, economics, and politics of human capital to identify the mechanisms through which meritocracy breeds inequality and to expose the burdens that meritocratic inequality imposes on all who fall within meritocracy’s orbit.
Markovits is also working on a new book, tentatively called
The Good Life after the Age of Growth.
After earning a B.A. in Mathematics, summa cum laude from Yale University, Markovits received a British Marshall Scholarship to study in England, where he was awarded an M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the L.S.E. and a B.Phil. and D.Phil. in Philosophy from the University of Oxford. Markovits then returned to Yale to study law and, after clerking for the Honorable Guido Calabresi, joined the faculty at Yale.
John D. Sailer is the director of higher education policy and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His research and investigations cover issues of academic freedom, free speech, and ideological capture in higher education.
Sailer’s work has been published in
The Wall Street Journal,
The Free Press,
Tablet Magazine, and more. He has been cited in
The New York Times, on CNN, and in
The Chronicle of Higher Education. His investigations have led to significant policy changes at universities across the country.
He holds a master’s degree in philosophy and education from Columbia University, Teachers College, and a bachelor’s degree in politics, philosophy, and economics from The King’s College. Prior to joining the Manhattan Institute, he was a senior fellow at the National Association of Scholars.
