Yale Daily News

Election years make for the best Halloweens. I discovered this in 1996, when I was overcome by the irresistible urge to borrow a jacket and […]

October 24, 2008

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the events of a particularly contentious campaign season leading up to a particularly important election warrant numerous comparisons […]

September 9, 2008

Considering the deadlock currently stalling the Democratic nomination process, it’s been something of a diversion to have sex play such a prominent role in politics […]

March 25, 2008

It just keeps coming, doesn’t it? In the fall, racist and homophobic messages were scrawled on prominent campus buildings for every passerby to see. Last […]

February 26, 2008

It’s been interesting, to say the least, to follow the fallout of last week’s “Yale sluts” incident. People have been infuriated, saddened, annoyed and indifferent […]

January 30, 2008

A little while ago, I participated in an activity in which a group of Yalies were asked to imagine a modern university. Armed with a […]

November 27, 2007

“He broke laws, he violated the Constitution, he usurped arbitrary power, he trampled individual liberties,” President Bush said the other day, denouncing General Pervez Musharraf, […]

November 6, 2007

“Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience,” Susan Sontag wrote in her 2003 book, Regarding the Pain […]

October 23, 2007

Compare and contrast the following statement— “Mr. President, it is my pleasure to extend a warm welcome to you and Mrs. Liu on behalf of […]

September 26, 2007

I’ve never begun a column before by quoting old English poetry, and I may never do it again, so stay with me for a moment: […]

September 12, 2007

Two weeks ago, Don Imus achieved national notoriety by calling the women of the Rutgers basketball team “nappy-headed hos.” The comment sent the media into […]

April 25, 2007