Tag: Yale University

A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?

His pronouncements could hardly sound more drastic. In interviews and public appearances, Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, has taken on the question of how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in […]

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The Road to a Supreme Court Clerkship Starts at Three Ivy League Colleges

WASHINGTON — When Ted Cruz attended Harvard Law School, he liked to study with people who had undergraduate degrees from Harvard, Yale or Princeton. “He said he didn’t want anybody from ‘minor Ivies’ like Penn or Brown,” one of his law school roommates told GQ. That may strike you as slicing the baloney of elitism […]

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