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If you had to name just one, what’s the Yale course that will always stay with you? Here’s what Angela Bassett, Alan Dershowitz, David McCullough, and others had to say.

In the 1920s, leading thinkers—including the greatest economist America ever produced—focused their efforts on eugenics, preserving the Nordic stock, and the problem of “race suicide.”

Three web entrepreneurs are trying to build a wiki empire on analysis of rap lyrics. Lit crit, yo.

At a recital of all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, some performers brandished sickles, typed on laptops, and sliced onions. One senior just tried to remember her 14 lines.

A love of questions, a suicide in the family, and, in the end, an epiphany.

The endorsement process should balance the interests of the university with those of its applicants.