JP Nogues
Hey Texas! Don’t mess with the rest of us

This summer I worked with a guy — let’s call him “Joe” — who lives in Texas. He never shut up about it. Joe on […]

No soap for you! More bang for our bucks

On Monday, Provost Alison Richard rejected the Yale College Council’s proposal to install soap dispensers in undergraduate bathrooms. She said she had been intrigued by […]

As soon as Bush starts a war, I’ve got a summer job

Of course it worked out that the applications for the astronomy summer internships I was interested in required three academic letters of recommendation. Three. Getting […]

Almanac of current politics, slightly abridged

We live in a country where the right to political participation is considered fundamental, nearly as fundamental as the right to store loaded firearms in […]