How we stood up for “light and truth”

First published on October 11, 2018 in Socialist Worker.

When Brett Kavanaugh invoked his Yale University diploma again and again during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a group of angry alumni decided the Yale motto of “light and truth” would be best served by loudly saying: #YaleKavaNO. Pranav Jani, an SW contributor, associate professor at Ohio State University and Yale graduate (Berkeley ’93), tells how the campaign was organized and what it meant to him.