Teaching Common Sense: The Grand Strategy Program at Yale University

“The best course in America.” —David Brooks, New York Times


A look inside Yale’s elite Grand Strategy program, where future leaders are forged.


How is critical thinking taught? How will the next generation cope with an ever-changing and increasingly complex world?

These are questions that the Grand Strategy program at Yale seeks to address. The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy seeks to revive the study and practice of grand strategy by devising methods to teach that subject at the gradu...