Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.