Yale Daily News

I like to think of our teachers at Yale as initiating us into the academic traditions to which they have contributed — and to which we, their students, would like to contribute also. It seems to me that one way to begin this is to educate students in the core of knowledge of each tradition — the works of each tradition’s greatest minds.

October 12, 2015

Yalies have often taken the liberal rather than the narrow approach to injustice.

October 6, 2015

Some weeks before his death, Tyler Carlisle ’15 conversed all night with two friends in his apartment in the Taft. They ascended to the roof to watch the sunrise, each in silent prayer. Tyler then asked that, if he were to die in war as an officer in the U.S. Army, his friends recognize the men he commanded in his eulogy.

October 2, 2015

The argument against “master,” if accepted, would be disastrous for open discourse.

September 21, 2015

New Haven is a city run by progressive Democrats going back decades. Any failures in city governance are theirs alone.

September 14, 2015

An important matter like the Iran deal deserves honest and charitable debate.

August 28, 2015

Preserving Calhoun College allows us to bear witness every day to America’s worst time, and Yale’s most ill-bestowed honor.

June 29, 2015

What do Claire’s Corner Copia, the Owl Shop and J. Press Clothing have in common?

April 10, 2015

It was hardly Professor McGonagall’s “evening of well-mannered frivolity.”

February 26, 2015

Hillary Clinton is not the receptacle of anyone’s idea of what a woman should be like.

February 9, 2015

We are not the people we’ve been waiting for, because there was never any we to do the waiting.

January 30, 2015