Harry Graver
GRAVER: Lucretius at Yale

On its website, the Yale Admissions Department promises “education and enlightenment” along with a commitment “to the idea of a liberal arts education.” When a […]

GRAVER: Don’t Ban the Box

The juxtaposition of Yale and New Haven poses troubling contrasts. Often just a few blocks separate immense wealth from destitute poverty, boundless opportunity from institutionalized […]

GRAVER: Rooting the humanities in right

In “Finding the right meaning,” (Oct. 13), Peter Gayed embodies a dangerous intellectual tradition that regrettably has grown to define American higher education. Gayed puts […]

GRAVER: The duty of intellectual cogency

Like many before her, Abigail Carney ’15, in her piece “The duty of the top 1 percent,” falls into an intellectual trap. The existence of […]

Graver: The cost of moralizing coffee

At every Yale dining hall, students can always be found flocking to the jugs of coffee, seeking that necessary boost between a third problem set […]

Graver: Superiority complex

Many of my friends are often horrified by articles I send them from the Wall Street Journal — but rarely is the feeling mutual. This […]

Graver: The Four Loko precedent

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 […]

Graver: End the death penalty

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. […]

Graver: Keep Uncle Sam out of the classroom

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 […]