Greetings from New Haven, the city of my birth, Yale’s home, and, more to the point, home of the Buckley Institute. Named after Bill Buckley, it promotes intellectual diversity and free speech at Yale.
The Institute held its annual conference last week, and I was on one of the six panels. What a wonderful experience — I was astonished to know there are so many conservative students at Yale. Granted, Yalies aren’t stupid. I taught there when I was a graduate student in the early ’90s, and even the football players were writing biographies, making documentaries, performing in operas, and discovering unknown celestial bodies. The Institute has close to 850 Yale Fellows, or student members, who, inspired by Bill Buckley’s work and personality, learn about conservatism and restrain Yale leftists’ lust for conformity to false values.
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