I published a book review of an engaging book "Civilizations of Ancient Iraq"co-authored by my former Akkadian Professor at Yale Ben Foster. …
When I Was Young at Yale
"When I Was Young at Yale." Some of the reflections in this article feel strangely reminiscent of some of my observations while at Yale. …
The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
I just downloaded the massive Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, 90 years in the making! What an invaluable resource that preserves languages and cultures from more than 3000+ years of ancient Mesopotamia. This dictionary is useful for so many reasons, …
Yale Educational Experiment in Singapore
I've been following with interest Yale's joint venture educational experiment with the National University of Singapore. Perhaps this is part of a larger trend of exporting American Higher Education abroad. Now if we could only fix the glaring …
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“Values are as Real as Grain Prices”
"Values are as Real as Grain Prices." An excellent one page article/interview by Carlos Eire, Yale Professor of History and Religious Studies. In Yale University Divinity School publication Reflections. Great quotes: "Beliefs and values actually …
Accountability and Greed in Investment Banking.
"The failure of socialist regimes: one important explanation is that the underlying informal norms of what people do with their work lives were never integrated with the planned economies in an effective way." Yale Lecture 12 on Capitalism, …
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