Peer review

Inspired by Mathew Brady’s Civil War photos, artist John Ransom Phillips, AB’60, PhD’66, painted a series dedicated to Brady. After a career documenting famous figures like Lincoln, with the outbreak of war, Brady reinvented himself as a battlefield photographer. The series, along with an essay by Yale historian Alan Trachtenberg, was published as Ransoming Mathew Brady (Hudson Hills Press, 2010). It includes the oil above, Antietam in Smoke (2007), which reflects on Brady’s depiction of American history’s bloodiest single-day battle.

Body of work

Anthropologist Matti Bunzl, PhD’98, strives to bring humanities to the public.

Performance reviewer

Nell Minow, JD’77, takes underperforming CEOs and board members to task.

Weapons grade

Political scientist Alexander H. Montgomery-Amo, AB’96, explains why WMD intelligence has been so poor.

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