Yale Daily News

My aim in this column is to make the case to readers who are skeptical of elite universities that this endowment tax — and the broader conservative turn against higher education — is shortsighted and ultimately harmful to America.

July 7, 2025

The University selectively celebrates the Latin motto and makes much of the Woodward Report’s 50th anniversary but chooses an approach to our current political moment that is marked by opaqueness and temporizing.

June 30, 2025

All of us can sense that conversations have become more brittle. Trust in institutions — and one another — is fraying. Common ground feels hard to find, and still harder to sustain. I don’t think we’ve lost the ability to talk with each other so much as the will to.

May 18, 2025

As editor in chief and president of the Yale Daily News, the rhythm of my days was shaped by deadlines, live blogs, breaking alerts, budget reports, last-minute meetings about global conflict and newsroom conflict and everything in between. 

May 17, 2025

Today, Yale is rightfully held in suspicion and distrust for its shameful discarding of the past, as evidenced by Yale’s negative relationship with its own namesake.

May 17, 2025

Regardless of what stances Yale takes, students will always be able to speak up, to agree or disagree with the institutions around them. We can help shape the intellectual climate of our campus ourselves, fostering diversity of thought from the ground up.

May 17, 2025

Every week during my senior year, I’d drive an hour away from New Haven to the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution, weaving through a small neighborhood and up a hill overlooking miles of trees before arriving.

May 17, 2025

Yale celebrates academic freedom and encourages exploration; military training demands discipline and adherence to standards. We rarely talk about this tension explicitly.

May 17, 2025

Though we might not have grown up in New Haven, we are grateful for the love, care and support we have received from community members.

May 17, 2025

Several years ago, Father Ryan Lerner of St. Thomas More gave a homily in which he invited us to contemplate what kind of legacy we want to leave behind. When our obituaries are written, would we want our loved ones to harp on about the wealth and prestige we had accumulated or would we want to be remembered by the lives we have touched?

May 17, 2025

I will celebrate that I came to Yale in part to escape my Orthodox upbringing, only to find myself writing my last papers on Jews in English literature.

May 17, 2025