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I heard something in November that I can’t stop thinking about. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, the man behind stories like the “Trial of the Chicago 7,” […]

February 24, 2021

You probably haven’t seen “Yearly Departed,” and it’s likely you never will.  Amazon Studio’s all-female comedy special should be good. Featuring an ensemble cast of […]

February 9, 2021

It’s estimated that the average person tells a lie about one to two times a day. At most, then, I’ve already lied 13,870 times. At […]

November 12, 2020

The HBO miniseries “The Leftovers” claims to confront truth by evading it.  If you thought that “Lost” revealed its creators’ god complexes, Damon Lindelof’s next […]

October 22, 2020

For something that elicits universal pleasure, comedy lacks a universal definition. Aristotle only laughed at jokes of the phallic kind, Shakespeare required a marriage and […]

October 14, 2020

Take 1: To call Fiona Apple’s album “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” guttural is a grotesque simplification. And yet, each track — from the playful shriek […]

April 23, 2020

Axel Källenius ’23 isn’t afraid. At his family’s home in Stockholm, Sweden, Källenius is pondering Proust, disagreeing with Kierkegaard and admiring Nietzsche. He is enjoying the time to reconnect with his family, the living-at-home phase that is no longer a relic of childhood and simply “appreciating things” he hadn’t before.

April 17, 2020

As Yale continues to come to grips with the novel coronavirus pandemic, 1stGenYale — an alumni-led program that supports Yale students who are the first […]

March 30, 2020

Despite rising skepticism, Yale community members continue to defend letters of recommendation as an appropriate form of character testimony to contextualize an applicant. The vast […]

March 4, 2020

After nearly an hour and 30 minutes discussing US-China policy, Michael Pillsbury — who serves as US President Donald Trump’s leading expert on the relations […]

February 25, 2020

“Clearly, Milton’s verse is self-conscious. It drips with a hyperawareness of the canon and an unbearably cultivated ethos. His semantic curation wouldn’t be out of […]

February 24, 2020