Yale Daily News

The times are a changin’, and plus ca change. Somewhere in between those two expressions lies the truth about the culture wars. As everyone now […]

April 20, 2004

Yale and its critics — those of the “Connecticut Center for a New Economy ideology” that Yale is the tubby oligarch with an oversized money […]

March 26, 2004

It is easy to find examples of people who wound up on the wrong side of history: Strom Thurmond was so far on the wrong […]

February 25, 2004

It’s too bad you can’t impeach a first lady. Connecticut First Lady Patty Rowland’s rhyming poem-diatribe against overzealous Hartford Courant reporters when the Rowland “cabin-gate” […]

February 9, 2004

If one of the darker chapters of contemporary American history is the ubiquity of government make-believe, perhaps the most insidious kind of make-believe is the […]

January 21, 2004

It was announced recently that sometime early next year the troops will be coming home from Iraq. Of course, 85,000 others will be taking their […]

November 17, 2003

The untold story behind the California recall is that Californians have been tricked into thinking they have a terrible governor. The lackluster news media, juggling […]

October 20, 2003

In addition to authoring important books on Islam, Western perceptions of the Middle East, exile, Conrad, and many other topics, Edward Said, who died last […]

October 1, 2003

Whatever you think about the current labor stoppage, there is no denying it has made for good news copy. Thanks to the likes of John […]

September 17, 2003

It’s good to check from time to time how much a human life is worth these days. According to the recent Lockerbie bombing settlement, it’s […]

September 5, 2003

Mullah Krekar, the founder of a militant Islamic organization based in northern Iraq, supposedly wore a knowing smile as he watched television coverage of U.S. […]

March 7, 2003