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BOSTEELS: Is American individualism compatible with community welfare?

This individualist mindset, built into the core structure of U.S. governance, is now inseparable from the American identity.

October 8, 2025

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BOSTEELS: Jailbreaking the rules of national politics

If we cannot hope for a lifeguard intervention, we are left to hope Republicans will act to make the political game more fair at their own expense.

September 10, 2025

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BOSTEELS: Argue more

As college students, everyone in the dining hall is a peer: someone you can engage with at an equal level and who has no authority over your life or your beliefs. And specifically as Yale students, we talk obsessively about dialogue; just open the opinion section of the Yale Daily News website and every third article — including this one — is a meditation on the ways to reach a better quality of speech at Yale.

February 25, 2025

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BOSTEELS: The New Haven school

Dialogue in the States is being drained of its substance and filtered of its true essence until all that’s left is a series of withered, shallow word jumbles.

February 6, 2025

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BOSTEELS: At this year’s Game, catch me in a different blue

It’s time to move past the two-party system.  November comes around and what were once friendships and communities are suddenly split by insurmountable chasms separating […]

November 22, 2024

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BOSTEELS: After all, C’s get degrees

Maybe you learn more from a C than from an A. As a community of Yalies and more broadly as college students, many of us […]

November 20, 2024