STAFF COLUMN
AMEND: Three Morrison classes we need now

In a Jan. 26 column, I explained why Yale needs to teach more of Toni Morrison. Chief among a whole host of reasons is that […]

SINGH: Take Project 2025 seriously

“Conservatives have to lead the way in restoring sex to its true purpose, & for…ending recreational sex & senseless use of birth control pills.” That […]

AMEND: The Queen’s Gambit

I founded a chess club in Fairfax, Virginia. My grandfather taught me how to play chess from the age of eight, and the game has […]

WARD: A Lesson in Austerity Measures

Students and faculty a few blocks away from Yale are being unjustly punished. Because of the corruption of a bankrupt system run by inept individuals, […]

SINGH: Nationalize Starlink

Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Elon Musk’s drug use. Not just marijuana, which he (in)famously smoked on Joe Rogan’s podcast in 2018 — mushrooms, cocaine, LSD, ecstasy and ketamine, the last for which Musk claims he has a prescription.

NAM: The Standardization of Humor

Viral jokes are the latest chapter in humor’s illustrious history. It’s a tradition that dates back to radios, television, newspapers, village rumor mills and traveling traders or entertainers. But today’s scope of virality is unmatched.

BAYULGEN & DANIEL: For the Ancient Eight and beyond, diversity means survival

On one of our first dates together, the two of us walked past Skull & Bones and, full of curiosity, tried to sneak a peek […]

DUNCAN: Why are you afraid?

Yalie small talk seems to follow trends depending on where we are in the school year. The current default question is “What did you do […]

SAPRE: The unbearable lightness of being busy

There are few states of existence more natural for the average Yale student than the state of “busyness.” Whether it is week seven, three or […]

AMEND: Yale needs more Toni Morrison classes

In April 2015, I saw Toni Morrison speak at Harvard before her passing in 2019. My love for Morrison started after I read “Song of […]

DE GENNARO: What happened at Harvard is also about Yale

On Tuesday, Jan. 2, Harvard’s President Claudine Gay resigned, following weeks of controversy surrounding instances of plagiarism in her scholarship, as well as outrage stemming […]