April 4, 2022
Something is rotten in the American university — or so say the founders of the University of Austin. Launched in early November by a group of […]
December 10, 2021
Alas, another incident at Yale Law School has given even more grist to the cancel-culture mill. On Oct. 13, The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative […]
November 9, 2021
Decrying the putative leftism of elite colleges has been standard right-wing fare for decades — William F. Buckley’s 1951 “God and Man at Yale” pioneered […]
September 20, 2021
Six months after its release, I still don’t know anyone who’s actually read President Obama’s memoir, “A Promised Land” (though I do have one friend […]
April 30, 2021
David Frum ’82, a senior editor at The Atlantic and an outspoken conservative critic of President Donald Trump, visited Davenport on Monday to discuss American […]
November 13, 2018
Visitors to Times Square experience an overload of commercial stimuli: glossy advertisements, flashing brand names and airbrushed models. But Yale professor and professional photographer Lisa […]
November 1, 2018
Leonid Volkov, a 2018 Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellow, admitted that he was an unlikely candidate for campaign manager and chief of staff for the […]
October 23, 2018
On Thursday, the Yale Center for British Art unveiled the first exhibition in the United States dedicated solely to the work of contemporary British painter […]
October 5, 2018
I was sitting on my bed in my dorm in the center of Moscow when a notification on my phone informed me that Russia had […]
September 28, 2018
I’ve learned the hard way that there are certain books you should avoid taking on public transportation. Chris Kraus’ “I Love Dick” is one; Baratunde […]
September 14, 2018