Should-Read: When Yale made the long overdue decision to dename the Residential College Formerly Named After the Odious John C. Calhoun, a bunch of alumni–who had never before remarked on how odious John C. Calhoun had been–came out of the woodwork to protest that we will be impoverished if we do not memorialize even the … Continue reading Should-Read: Sidney Blumenthal (2017): Wrestling with His Angel, 1849-1856