Caleb Dunson
Staff Columnist
caleb.dunson@yale.edu
Caleb Dunson is a former co-opinion editor and current columnist for the News. Originally from Chicago, Caleb is a senior in Saybrook College majoring in Political Science and Economics. His column "What We Owe," runs monthly and "explores themes of collective responsibility at Yale and beyond." Contact him at caleb.dunson@yale.edu
Author Archive
CALEB DUNSON
DUNSON: Affirmative action won’t save us

As a single parent and a city government employee, my mom didn’t have the money to send me to a fancy private school. So my […]

March 2, 2022

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DUNSON: Reckoning with the reckoning

National news outlets presented 2020 as a year of expansive progress on the journey toward racial justice in America, a racial reckoning so to speak. […]

February 16, 2022

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DUNSON: About Dorothy

Dorothy Merritt-Anderson was born in Nettleton, Mississippi in 1923, where she had to pick cotton instead of finishing elementary school. Her father wasn’t around, and […]

February 2, 2022

CALEB DUNSON
Abolish Yale

Because of COVID-19 gathering restrictions, the class of 2024 missed out on our first-year dinner. But to make it up to us, Yale hosted a […]

December 10, 2021

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DUNSON: Power and pride

It’s a tale as old as time, a powerful man undone by his own hubris. Still, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s swift collapse under […]

September 2, 2021

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DUNSON: Defining justice

My rite of passage was not a grandiose event. It did not come with a celebration. There were no parties or gifts or anything of […]

May 3, 2021

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DUNSON: Living up to our responsibility

When I sat down to write this column, I worried about being redundant, repeating what’s been said a million times. But some things are so […]

April 19, 2021

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DUNSON: Treating students with dignity

Yale has shown that it does not care about its students or their opinions — at least not in the way it claims to. From […]

April 6, 2021

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DUNSON: Expanding our solidarity

The Atlanta spa shooting that took place on Tuesday, March 16 was shocking, but not surprising. That a man could be so self-important, deluded and […]

March 22, 2021

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DUNSON: The case for positivity

During the break I spent most of my time doomscrolling, listening to Billie Eilish and brooding in my room. The cruel Chicago winter kept me […]

March 10, 2021

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DUNSON: Blackness and belonging

Just two years ago, I might’ve been killed by one of the University’s police officers, the same ones employed to protect me. Just three years […]

February 25, 2021