Yale Daily News

I hate the phrase “liberal elite.” A grating cliche, it’s like “gay agenda” or “evangelical” — poorly defined and too often spoken in a paranoid […]

March 5, 2010

This Sunday marks two years since the death of William F. Buckley, Jr. ’50, writer, conservative icon and Yale Man. I got to see Buckley […]

February 26, 2010

I have a love-hate relationship with hipsters. I love them, and they hate me. Hipsters are the cultural phenomenon of our time. Everybody talks about […]

February 19, 2010

There’s a great joke in The Record. It’s a fake letter that goes like this: “Dear Directed Studies Freshman, Thank you for your criticisms of […]

February 12, 2010

Like every other great empire in history, America’s decline is hastened by the sexual license of its elite. Yale University, a cesspool of sin, has […]

February 5, 2010

As President Obama pointed out in his State of the Union address, fewer Americans than ever before have faith in their government. I consider this […]

January 29, 2010

My fellow cognoscenti, a specter is haunting the East Coast — the specter of the ordinary American. Middle-class, Christian, sometimes mid-western, invariably poorly dressed, he […]

January 22, 2010

If you are a senior, you have only days to switch to a major in the humanities. If you’re not a senior, you have more […]

January 11, 2010

The distinguishing feature of a political question is that every side gets it wrong. This is the case with political correctness. There are two mistakes […]

December 1, 2009

On the eve of the release of Sarah Palin’s new book, the consensus is that she’s a nut. I have a dirty secret. I’ve tried […]

November 16, 2009

Everybody blames the smokers. One little fire in Branford and the hegemonic, white-lunged majority hurls hatred at a threatened and dwindling, black-lunged minority. The comments […]

November 6, 2009