Author Archives: Harry Graver

Many of my friends are often horrified by articles I send them from the Wall Street Journal — but rarely is the feeling mutual. This weekend a friend of mine, baffled and furious, sent me a link of an essay entitled “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior.” I would not normally take it upon myself to »

Earlier this week, as I was checking my Facebook, I noticed a startling number of distressed status updates coming from many of my high school friends. At first, I was confused by the ambiguous cries of despair, but with a little further investigation, I discovered the cause of the widespread anguish — Four Loko was »

Three years ago, on the morning of July 7, Steven J. Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky fled the home of the Petit family in Cheshire, Conn. As the police forcibly apprehended the two men, flames rose in the background; the Petit family’s house began to burn. Once the fire was eventually contained, police discovered inside Dr. »

As Yale students, we all have at least one thing in common. No — it’s not a superiority complex, a fledgling caffeine addiction or an affinity for College Wine. It’s the fact that we all have gone to high school, or at least have some form of equivalent schooling. As Winston Churchill wrote, “A universal »