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The Yale Political Union (YPU) is a debate society at Yale University, founded in 1934 by Alfred Whitney Griswold.It was modeled on the Cambridge Union and Oxford Union and the party system of the defunct Yale Unions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which were in turn inspired by the great literary debating societies of Linonia and Brothers in Unity.
In his sophomore year, Kerry became the chairman of the Liberal Party of the Yale Political Union, and a year later he served as president of the union. Amongst his influential teachers in this period was Professor H. Bradford Westerfield, who was himself a former president of the Political Union.
In the 1950s and 1960s, both major American political parties included liberal and conservative factions. The Democratic Party had on one hand Northern and Western liberals and on the other generally conservative Southern whites. Difficult to classify were the Northern urban Democratic political machines. The urban machines had supported New ...
Cornel West. Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, theologian, political activist, politician, social critic, actor, and public intellectual. [13] [14] The grandson of a Baptist minister, West's primary philosophy focuses on the roles of race, gender, and class struggle in American society.
Senator George W. Norris (1861–1944), Republican and independent from Nebraska. Governor and Senator Hiram Johnson (1866–1945), Republican and Progressive from California. Senator Robert F. Wagner (1877–1953), Democrat from New York. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), Democratic president from 1933 to 1945.
The American academic and commentator McGeorge Bundy, a Yale graduate himself, wrote in The Atlantic: "God and Man at Yale, written by William F. Buckley, Jr., is a savage attack on that institution as a hotbed of 'atheism' and 'collectivism.' I find the book is dishonest in its use of facts, false in its theory, and a discredit to its author."
e. Modern liberalism in the United States is based on the combined ideas of civil liberty and equality with support for social justice. It is one of two major political ideologies of the United States. Economically, modern liberalism supports government regulation on private industry, opposes corporate monopolies, and supports labor rights. [1]
Yale historian Gaddis Smith notes "an ethos of organized activity" at Yale during the 20th century that led John Kerry to lead the Yale Political Union's Liberal Party, George Pataki the Conservative Party, and Joseph Lieberman to manage the Yale Daily News.