Michael Pomeranz
MICHAEL POMERANZ
In relations with Middle East, Yale must talk religion

Dean Salovey, I forgive you. I know, these days I am meant to call for your head. You limit speech. But you also kind of […]

April 28, 2008

MICHAEL POMERANZ
Time transforms the Elm City, a flâneur frets

“Lazy Susan’s Café. Coffee Pastries Sandwiches.” So reads the sign at 214 State St. That beige, brick, three-floor walk-up stands kitty corner to the Knights […]

April 15, 2008

MICHAEL POMERANZ
Modern ‘Yale Man’ measured in cups of Bass coffee

It’s taken me five months, but now I can admit it: I love the new Bass Library. Everyone does. The place is always packed. You […]

March 31, 2008

MICHAEL POMERANZ
Reality check: ‘Yale is not cultivating intolerance’

I have a great life. I live in a beautiful, new college in an impressive, old campus. I take classes on interesting things. Occasionally, I […]

March 3, 2008

KATHRYN BALDWIN & MICHAEL POMERANZ
He drew the hard line, invigorated conservatism

We learned yesterday morning of the death of William F. Buckley, Jr., one of the leading American intellectuals of the last half-century. Yet, he was […]

February 28, 2008

MICHAEL POMERANZ
In place of real enemies, imaginary foes distract

“As we meet today, Chinese citizens who had the courage to speak their minds on the Internet are in the Chinese gulag because Yahoo! chose […]

February 18, 2008

MICHAEL POMERANZ
In search of truth, relativism halts real debate

Most of our parents love us very much; as we grew up, they taught us we were the most important things in the world, unique […]

February 4, 2008

MICHAEL POMERANZ
The Western Canon informs our sense of Right

During winter break, I spoke with Eli Moyal, the mayor of Sderot, a poor city in the south of Israel. We met in City Hall. […]

January 23, 2008

MICHAEL POMERANZ
Expansion poses threat to meaning of ‘Yale’

Yalies have available surprisingly few fora for talking about Yale. Perhaps our physical proximity to one another renders unnecessary institutionalized discussion: When I encounter someone […]

December 3, 2007

MICHAEL POMERANZ
Outside Cantab contest, Yale should celebrate self

Fifty-one weeks a year, Yalies are sociable, interesting, beneficent people, consistently sober and eternally interesting, happy about their residential colleges and busy inventing the next […]

November 12, 2007

MICHAEL POMERANZ
Alumni long for return of Aristophanes’ frogs

Yale cheers with the words of Aristophanes’ comedy The Frogs. Another reason to study your Greek, or so Imre Szalai’s ’96 Latin teacher told him. […]

October 29, 2007