Yale Daily News

The founders understood that no nation is immune to demagoguery. They also understood that a strongman’s ability to do harm hinges on his ability to do anything at all — hence the proliferation of mechanisms to occlude rule by executive fiat. For the past eight years, the left has disparaged those mechanisms as obstacles to social equality. In some sense, they’re right. Federalism’s tendency to slow progress is real and lamentable.

November 11, 2016

Normally, if a Yale professor called a large, racially homogenous group of working class Americans “deplorable,” campus would be awash in moral outrage. Yet none of us batted an eye when professor Charles Blow did just that in the New York Times a few weeks ago.

November 2, 2016

Proponents of political correctness tell a compelling but flawed origin story that goes something like this: The liberal projects of the Enlightenment successfully installed a […]

October 13, 2016

Dwight Hall’s asymmetric treatment of CLAY and RALY demonstrates its undisguised contempt for liberal pluralism.

October 6, 2016

At Yale, we do not treat humanity’s most destructive passion as something to be tamed or controlled.

September 22, 2015

Americans have begun to view centrism as a dirty word.

September 15, 2015

Rap music is not inherently misogynistic, but the genre’s appalling record of sexism is difficult to ignore.

September 8, 2015

To ask, “whose side is Yale on,” is to implicitly suggest student input matters in the debate over divestment.

April 15, 2015

We go to college to learn how to analyze literature, whose basic unit of communication is the written word.

April 6, 2015

Boycotts like this one — organized by the Hollywood elite and directed at unfortunate slips of the tongue — send a horrible message about activism.

March 23, 2015

Guns, alcohol, hormones all in one place. Why does this sound like a terrible idea?

February 24, 2015