Yale Daily News

Yale has innumerable traditions, social, political and academic, ranging from the silly (secret societies) to the exceptionally silly (building villages on Beinecke Plaza). I’ll remember […]

May 1, 2003

In the fall of 1990, a young freelance reporter named Michael Kelly arrived in Baghdad to begin chronicling the human consequences of the impending Gulf […]

April 7, 2003

I’ve spent the last few months lambasting classmates for ignorance, hysteria, and most recently bigotry. Yet I would be remiss if I did not devote […]

March 31, 2003

It has been an unpleasant week to be Jewish at Yale. On Tuesday, Dean Pamela George published a column to the effect that it was […]

February 28, 2003

As long as I’ve been at Yale, professors, guests and students have taken turns railing against apathy on campus. Yalies, we are told, care too […]

February 20, 2003

James Kirchick’s excellent column last week (“Singing the praises of dictators,” 1/30) described how a group of American public health students returned from a trip […]

February 6, 2003

That crucial political issues tend to get reduced to bumper stickers in the mass media is no surprise; that this happens so frequently on college […]

January 16, 2003

When I began writing this column, I conceived of it as a forum for exploring the difficulty of choosing courses of action in ghastly situations. […]

November 21, 2002

The most frequently repeated slogans often turn out to be the most inane when subjected to sustained scrutiny. Case in point: the mantra “No war […]

November 7, 2002

The decision to go to war is always a momentous one, not to be undertaken lightly. The importance of the question makes it that much […]

October 24, 2002

This year’s most important film is a shocking chronicle of America’s crimes against the Iraqi people — and I’m not referring to the decade of […]

October 10, 2002