the Sam Jackson College Experience

My name is Sam Jackson, and I am currently a rising senior political science major at Yale University (Class of 2011). In the fall of 2009, I was a participant of the Yale-PKU Joint Program, based in Beijing. There I had the opportunity to live and study with Chinese students. I found the unique ways [...]

The following photo is a stack of a selection of the sources I am using for my final paper in Prof. Keith Darden's Nationalism + National Identity class (EP&E 412 / INTS 328 / PLSC 158 / PLSC 655 ). There is more where this came from, not to mention JSTOR articles and the like. [...]

I believe in the liberating power of technology—rightly applied—and more broadly, that the Chinese Communist Party is on the wrong side of history. Google has managed to exit China while reaping an enormous political windfall. But why would anyone have expected things to go differently?

My dedicated readers will no doubt already be aware, but for those who missed a beat: I am currently writing a biweekly column for the Yale Herald about reflections from my return from studying in China last semester. The last column was about the way institutional controls on electricity and dorms affect the lives of [...]

My dedicated readers will no doubt already be aware, but for those who missed a beat: I am currently writing a biweekly column for the Yale Herald about reflections from my return from studying in China last semester. The last column was about cats and other cute animals, and the dearth thereof here at Yale. [...]