OPINION
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WITT: Toward an American civic religion

One of the most politically pressing discussions I’ve had in class this semester was about a fourth-century saint: Augustine of Hippo. In his book “City […]

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KIRKPATRICK: The Game needs more rivalries

Yale’s Intramural sports program is one of my favorite single aspects of Yale College. It encapsulates everything that makes Yale great in my eyes: friendly […]

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GRAHAM-MARTINEZ & NISSLEY: Selling Yale-Harvard ticket, message for price!

On Monday morning, Oct. 21, students were either overjoyed or devastated when opening their inbox to find an email from the athletics office announcing the […]

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GLICK: Why I’m going to the Yale-Harvard game

Because I won the lottery! Last November, I published my most controversial article to date: Why I’m not going to the Yale-Harvard game. That article […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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GORLICK: The greatest problem facing our world

The greatest problem facing our world is not mass hunger or poverty. It is not climate change or racism or prejudice or war or terrorism. It is one, six letter word, more influential and leveling than all of these factors combined. It possesses profound destructive power, but its remedy could fundamentally change the trajectory of our world.

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DE GENNARO: Trump’s win, Yale’s reckoning

Because at the end of the day, it is also not productive to conclude that it is all hopeless. Like many of my peers, I cast my first vote in a presidential election for Harris. I am just as disappointed in the results as anyone else, even if I am not as surprised.

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O’CONNELL: The books not bombs referendum

Your vote in this referendum is not dependent on your race, class, religion, political affiliation or any identity you hold. Instead, I believe your vote is about the kind of world you want to create. It is about making sure our institutions, locally and nationally, are accountable to the will of the people. It is about investing in and practicing the principles of democracy at every level. It is a simple message to Yale’s 16 trustees: students want Yale to be a source of life, not a contributor to death. 

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DANZIGER: Don’t shoot freedom in the foot

So, as you consider the Sumud Coalition’s new divestment referendum I ask you, dear reader: are you with those fighting authoritarianism, or against them? 

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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.