Adam Lior Hirst
Hirst: Worry more than worth

How will you spend your summer? Many of us spend more months considering this question than we do at our internships. We send applications with […]

Hirst: Pickup ball in PWG is beautiful

The political lessons of pick-up basketball are unclear to me. But each time I watch or participate in a game, I have a renewed faith […]

Hirst: Is it time to move on?

Wait another week for trite observations of American political discourse, nostalgia for an America that may never have existed, my love of baseball, the good […]

Hirst: College is about experiences

Camp Yale was the first time I was told the greatness of a Yale education does not come from her institutions, her hollowed halls, her […]

Hirst: A fan, but now jaded

This article has been corrected. You may view this article’s correction here. This week Alex Rodriguez, the MVP third baseman of the New York Yankees, […]

Hirst: Allies for a reason

The Yale’s community reaction to the recent Gaza war is neither unique among those at universities nor unique in the long history of this campus’ […]

Hirst: Different yet same

Today’s Yale students come from more places — and from farther away — than any previous generation of Yalies. But more of us share a […]

Hirst: Hope, but not change

I believe in America. Her institutions and her people are good. Her institutions have given us a polity that brings together three important ideas in […]

Hirst: The real role of our next president

George W. Bush ’68 is still the head of our government for another 70 days. But Barack Obama has assumed the role of head of […]

Hirst: Enough disrespect

We vote for a candidate based on what he tells us about ourselves. We look for the best among us, and we seek to elevate […]

National spirit rooted in athletic competition

At Yale, we jeer at Harvard in the same way that Bostonians do the City of Angels; that Yankees do the Red Sox; and that […]