Yale Daily News

I can’t read German, but it’s hard to imagine that Günter Grass’ “What Must Be Said” constitutes striking lyricism in any language. The poem, which […]

April 17, 2012

This Friday, the world’s Jews begin Passover, the perennially relevant celebration of exodus from Egyptian bondage. Every year provides an array of potential connections, and […]

April 3, 2012

While civilians died in Syria and pundits raged over Iran, I was out walking in Rancho San Antonio, 4,000 acres of riparian woods and upland […]

March 20, 2012

Yale so venerates written words and old stone that it’s hard to imagine a world that does not accord respect to such relics. Yet cathedral-shaped […]

February 21, 2012

Most of us support free speech and artistic expression. As enlightened, creative and (largely) liberal young people, we value the right of artists to produce […]

February 7, 2012

Whenever I tell people that I’m studying Persian, the response is often some variation on the same question: Does studying Iran’s language and culture give […]

January 24, 2012

Despite unseasonably warm weather, the water temperature in the Essex marshes was hovering just above freezing, and slivers of ice floated out with the tide. […]

January 10, 2012

Until recently, it was quite easy to declare your public endorsement of rape jokes. You had only to log onto Facebook, navigate to fan pages […]

November 11, 2011

What forms of protest are legitimate? And when does protest become terrorism? Suicide bombing falls firmly on the latter side; roadside picketing, on the former. […]

October 28, 2011

For many of us, the tag “socially conscious artist” conjures up images of guitar-strumming prophets, crusading documentary filmmakers, and courageous novelists. Yet semantically, that’s not […]

October 14, 2011

The Jewish High Holidays, which began this week and will end in ten days after The Day of Atonement, have always fascinated me — they […]

September 30, 2011