Yale Daily News

Implicitly, a newspaper endorses the idea that news is worthy of your time, just as an opinion page — again, implicitly — endorses the notion […]

September 2, 2009

For Herblin. Thanks for all the help, old dog. (And for Cindy…) THE MOUSE IS feisty today,” y’all will have said. The sun will have […]

May 1, 2009

When I asked my 14-year-old brother what I should write this column about, he told me to “write about how much better the South is […]

April 22, 2009

When the economy falls on hard times, everything comes under a new level of scrutiny. Institutions, practices, and habits must justify themselves on more rigid […]

April 2, 2009

My Latin class was translating a passage about Cato the Elder when the power went out and, with it, the lights. The windows afforded enough […]

February 25, 2009

In the opening of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” one of my favorite movies, Joel Barish, the main character, wistfully opines that Valentine’s Day […]

February 13, 2009

Snow was falling. I was wet and unhappy as I left the bookstore and began the trek back to my dorm. They had refused to […]

February 4, 2009

Ask a physics major about energy, and you are likely to hear something about a theory of Einstein’s. Ask a political science major, and you […]

January 22, 2009

One would be hard-pressed to invent a scene more beautiful than that of the Christmas nativity. The newborn child, his young mother and her betrothed, […]

December 5, 2008

If you are thinking about submitting a column to this page in which you present gay marriage as a matter of civil rights and equality, […]

November 19, 2008

Education, once upon a time, meant the transformation of an inchoate human being into one who fulfills his nature. It involved aligning the passions with […]

November 6, 2008