Joshua Baize
Staff Reporter
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Must-Read Very Helpful Tips for Navigating the Internship Process

To all my peers who think the scramble for summer internships will drive you so insane that you’ll eventually gnaw your hand off like a deranged, rabid raccoon, I can only say this: keep reading this super relevant column.

Repent, Harvard, for the Kingdom of Yale is at Hand

I address this tasteless rant to the cross admits, those beguiling high school seniors who, on March 30, were admitted to both Yale and Harvard. […]

I Still Haven’t Seen La La Land, But Moonlight Was Way Better

This is what American cinema needs more of, baroque and robust films which master their aesthetic while at the same time presenting an astounding emotionalism.

The art of the section asshole

Richard “Dick” Head ’19 has gained a reputation for being a “section asshole,” that overbearing rascal who frequently dominates seminar discussions and attempts to wrestle […]

The art of the section asshole

Richard “Dick” Head ’19 has gained a reputation for being a “section asshole,” that overbearing rascal who frequently dominates seminar discussions and attempts to wrestle […]

Athletes, Befriend Me!

To all the athletes searching for a new favorite YDN columnist, I offer myself to you. I LOVE athletes. (You’re coming on too strong, Josh. […]

Fact: Johnny Cash is the Greatest Musician Ever

In celebration of what would have been Johnny Cash’s 85th birthday this Sunday (spoiler: He died in 2003), I first considered writing a steamy, deeply confessional and semi-scandalous love letter to the Man in Black. But I soon realized such a document might quickly devolve into gratuitous eroticism.

Light itself

Kaleidoscopic light unfolds upon a black screen. Balletic and tenuous, multihued forms bloom in quieted drifting. Analogies sketch them dimly: reverberations of Mingus’s slapped bass […]

“Manchester” Belongs at the Bottom of the Sea

The film presents itself as a study of grief on multiple levels. This exploration occurs most explicitly when Lee Chandler, played by Casey Affleck, is forced to take care of his nephew, Patrick, after the boy’s father dies of congestive heart failure. The plot then seesaws back and forth as Lee attempts to (brace for nauseating cliches) overcome his past, become a better man, learn to love again and blah blah blah.

Kanye nominated to Supreme Court

In a surreal Tuesday night ceremony, President Donald Trump nominated Kanye West to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Trump blasts YDN as “fake news”

In a press conference Thursday, President Donald Trump lambasted the Yale Daily News as “fake news.”