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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.
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.
He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and served as chairman of the Yale Daily News and as an informer for the FBI. At Yale, Buckley studied political science, history, and economics and graduated with honors in 1950.
Ian Shapiro (born September 29, 1956) is an American legal scholar and political scientist who serves as the Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He served as the Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center at Yale University from 2004 to 2019. He is known primarily for interventions in debates on democracy and on ...
Candace Jackson-Akiwumi. Michael Barr. Akhil Reed Amar (born September 6, 1958) is an American legal scholar known for his expertise in constitutional law. He holds the position of Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he is a leading scholar of originalism, the U.S. Bill of Rights, and criminal procedure. [1 ...
Harlem, New York, U.S. Education. Harvard University ( B.A.) Yale University ( M.A.) Brooklyn Law School ( J.D.) Occupation. Journalist. Errol T. Louis (born August 24, 1962) is a New York City journalist and television show host. He has unsuccessfully run for office several times.
Samuel P. Huntington (Party Leader, Fall 1945), political theorist known for The Clash of Civilizations theory; Liberal Former YPU President John Kerry. Akhil Amar (Party Chairman, Spring 1978), Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University; Peter Beinart (Party Chair, Fall 1990) editor of The New Republic