MAX GRINSTEIN
GRINSTEIN: Am I a prude?

NLE Choppa’s lyrics blur the line between music and pornography. Does this kind of rhetoric give female Yalies the respect that they deserve?

April 1, 2025

MAX GRINSTEIN
GRINSTEIN: Bring back bladderball

Yale is a shadow of its former self. The Yale Daily News only publishes print on Fridays. Clementines were removed from Commons. And, for the past 43 years, students have been deprived of a quintessential Yale tradition: bladderball.

February 25, 2025

MAX GRINSTEIN
GRINSTEIN: Future world, cut me some slack

I hope that what I write for the News stands the test of time. But, to whoever stumbles across this article 100 years from now in the Yale Daily News Archive, I merely have one request: please give me grace.

February 4, 2025

MAX GRINSTEIN
GRINSTEIN: Is Yale ashamed of JD Vance?

Indeed, Vance’s success demonstrates the continued relevance of institutions like Yale amid a cultural shift away from the Ivy League. Yale’s policy of institutional neutrality goes on to indicate that statements on the issues of the day might be permissible when they “directly implicate the university’s core values or concrete interests.” If Yale’s mission really is to “educate leaders worldwide who serve all sectors of society,” as we hear so often quoted by administrators, then Vance’s election surely serves the University’s concrete interests — making it fair game for institutional recognition.

January 22, 2025

MAX GRINSTEIN
GRINSTEIN: Confessions of an affinity addict

Yale goes to great lengths to build heterogeneous groups on campus. Yet many of us undo that work when we get here. This reality of our time at Yale is tragic because, as I’ve learned, life’s great privilege is being given the chance to understand other people’s sincerely held beliefs and convictions.

November 18, 2024

MAX GRINSTEIN
GRINSTEIN: An apology to my admissions officer

Maybe this is beyond your purview as an admissions officer, but in light of the recent conversation about institutional neutrality on Yale’s campus, I ask you a further question: should our clubs also be politically neutral?

November 1, 2024

MAX GRINSTEIN
GRINSTEIN: Ben Shapiro, you’re not welcome on October 7th

Inspired by Jewish tradition, I will mark one year since the Oct. 7 attacks with silent reflection, the recitation of psalms and efforts to connect with the Yale community, both inside and outside of the Slifka Center’s walls. Through their choice of dates, the Buckley Institute and Shapiro are politicizing a sensitive day of mourning — giving not into the desire for meat and wine but rather for discord and dissonance.

October 3, 2024