Adam Lior Hirst
Hirst: Go local to go national

During the snowstorms that overtook much of the Northeast over winter break, Mayor Cory Booker of Newark tweeted the following on his Twitter account in […]

Hirst: I, Connecticut Limo

I am Connecticut Limo — the incompetent taxi service familiar to all Nutmeggers and Yalies who travel. Transporting people is my vocation; it’s all I […]

Hirst: We’ve got to fight

America has a storied history of fighting for right and freedom “from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.” We have shed blood […]

Hirst: Yankees are America’s team

This is the first year I am old enough to watch baseball games at a bar. Wings and dollar drafts and televisions and mirrors are […]

Hirst: Seeking a job search system

In Periclean Athens, most public officials were selected by lot; the chosen men would then gather on a hill called the Pnyx to debate the […]

Hirst: A tough but worthy cause

The first recesses following principal Ken Bernabee’s executive order restricting the rights of the third-graders at James Caldwell Elementary School — banning kickballs and basketballs […]

Hirst: The power of discussion

Our world is at war with itself and we appear unable to turn sword into plowshare. Nuclear proliferation presages nuclear Armageddon; Great Depression has squandered […]

Hirst: Time to end co-education

Have you subverted the patriarchy this ovester? Consider this question as we celebrate the 40th year of women at Yale. In reading the News’ series […]

Hirst: Talk to Toad’s in dollars

Toad’s has taken its place alongside the Cato Institute as a leading exemplar of libertarian, pro-business, free-markets-make-free-men capitalism. It is a for-profit business, after all. […]

Hirst: Curse can cure recession

With his plans for health care reform stalled, President Obama should return his attention to stabilizing the financial markets. At this point, the administration has […]

Hirst: Your democracy lab

Freshmen: Heed Thomas Jefferson’s charge and make your residential college a “laboratory of democracy.” In a country that has built up federal organizations at the […]