YaleNews | Rescheduled Hacker talk explores American politics vs ...

?In the Company of Scholars,? the lecture series hosted by the dean of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is getting a second start this year, with the presentation of the talk by political scientist Jacob Hacker that was canceled due to storm Sandy.

Hacker's talk ? ?Is American Politics Undermining the American Dream?? ? will take place on Monday, Dec. 3, at 4 p.m. Like the other ?In the Company of Scholars?? lectures this year, the talk will take place in Rm. 119 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. It will also be live-streamed on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/YaleUniversity?v=n-24Su0Rnac?, and live-tweeted: follow @yalegsas.

Hacker?s talk will examine how rising economic inequality is linked to changes in American politics and policy, with a special emphasis on the recent election. ?The middle class ? drowning in debt, battered by economic insecurity, losing ground to an increasingly affluent group at the top ? has been badly neglected by American politics,? Hacker says. ?This is not a natural market development. Government has made the rich richer and turned its back on the middle class.?

The lecture series is designed to bring students and professors together across the disciplines to hear talks by distinguished faculty members. It takes its name from the opening words of ?Yale: A Short History? by historian George W. Pierson: ?Yale is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends.?

Other speakers in the series include historian Beverley Gage, Jan.22; religious studies scholar Kathryn?Lofton, Feb. 19; and physicist Paul Tipton, April 2.

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Source: http://news.yale.edu/2012/11/27/rescheduled-hacker-talk-explores-american-politics-vs-american-dream

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