Nathaniel Zelinsky
nathaniel.zelinsky@yale.edu
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ZELINSKY: Intellectual doomsday?

The fact that people want to see Lincoln, a movie that forces them to think, suggests that Americans rise to the occasion when given the intellectual opportunity.

November 26, 2012

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ZELINSKY: Remember the institutionalist

While I might disagree with some of Levin’s more specific and recent policies, the bottom line is that he grew the University in tremendous ways. But I am afraid that time will forget him.

November 12, 2012

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Forum: Yale-Harvard game shirts

This year’s Freshman Class Council Yale-Harvard game shirt will go on sale this week, but not without its share of controversy. Read perspectives in the […]

November 11, 2012

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ZELINSKY: Don’t forget the search

In September, the search for Yale’s next president was the hot topic. We read about it in the News and debated it in dining halls. […]

November 5, 2012

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ZELINSKY: An answer to The Question

The list of interrogators is long: Parents. Cousins. Former professors. Current professors. And, chiefly, fellow students. They all have one question: “What are you doing […]

October 29, 2012

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ZELINSKY: Delusions of policy grandeur

“Malaise” has become the watchword of this political season. Young people, so energetic in 2008, have grown subdued four years later. Voters on both sides […]

October 15, 2012

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ZELINSKY: For a visible Yale Corporation

To everyone’s chagrin, the conversation around the Yale presidential search continues. Self-styled student activists, small in number, demand unreasonable representation in the selection process. In […]

October 8, 2012

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ZELINSKY: A Marshall plan for free speech

The Yale Corporation recently announced the appointment of Margaret Marshall, LAW ’76, as a successor fellow to replace Fareed Zakaria ’86. This choice raises troubling […]

October 2, 2012

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ZELINSKY: Yale’s true public servants

The ROTC cadets really stand out in their uniforms. Eight Navy candidates ate dinner in Davenport on Friday. Their whites contrasted with the dining hall’s […]

September 24, 2012

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ZELINSKY: McMahon bodyslams Conn. GOP

Come November, Connecticut may have a Republican senator. And that prospect has me — a registered Republican — deeply troubled. Surprisingly, the Senate race between […]

September 17, 2012

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ZELINSKY: When Suu Kyi comes, forget NUS

For just a moment, Yale needs to ignore our venture in Singapore. Later this month, Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi will deliver a lecture […]

September 10, 2012