Dr. Anthony Kronman is the author of the new book, The Assault on Excellence (Free Press, 2019). He is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School and served as the Dean of Yale Law School from 1994-2004. Professor Kronman teaches in the Law School and the College in areas from contracts to philosophy. He has written a number of interesting books including Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life (Yale, 2008) , Max Weber, Contracts: Cases and Materials (Stanford, 1983), and Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan (Yale, 2016). Professor Kronman received his B.A. from Williams College, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and J.D. from Yale.

Read Tony's Work:

Some Highlights: 

Tony's background and history in education

Tony's recent Wall Street Journal Essay: "The Downside of Diversity"

New York Times on Kronman

Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Truth in education

The definition of "American Excellence"

What is the "Assault" and who is carrying it out?

The topography of American Universities

Weekly Suggestions:

Steven: Read great literature - check out Oxford World's Classics, or one of my favorites in the collection, Stendhal's The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford World's Classics)

Tony: 

Research Yale's Curriculum for Directed Studies - Online Syllabi will direct you to the works that Yale Freshmen read with. 

Read Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855 Edition) Availble from the Internet Archive, free and online

Pick some fruit and make a cobbler! Nothing brings people together like a peach cobbler in the middle of the table.

 

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