GUEST COLUMN
ZACHARY CLIFTON
CLIFTON: Maurie McInnis and her Little Red Tesla

President McInnis: consider selling your Tesla and taking a firmer stance against the White House's attacks on universities.

April 7, 2025

EMILY HETTINGER & KYLE THOMAS RAMOS
HETTINGER & RAMOS: Inside the YCC: Where it falls short and how we can fix it

As elections approach, we urge students to think carefully about the kind of leadership they want to see. Choose candidates who listen, who share power and who are not afraid to challenge the status quo.

April 7, 2025

TIMOTHY SNYDER
SNYDER: On leaving Yale

I did not leave Yale because of Donald Trump, or because of Columbia, or because of threats to Yale — but that would be a reasonable thing to do and that is a decision that people will make.

April 4, 2025

CALEB LOH
LOH: One story for me, another for thee

We have two options. We could tell ourselves that Ivy League colleges are merit-based, elite institutions. Or we could foster an egalitarian culture where the university one attends does not determine one’s opportunities.

April 3, 2025

ADHAM HUSSEIN
HUSSEIN: What students deserve in a professor

Some professors change what you know. Robert Malley changes how you think. Missing that is missing Yale at its best.

April 1, 2025

ETELLE HIGONNET
HIGONNET: Yale must save climate science

What will our grandchildren say to us about this pivotal moment in history, when Yale had the chance to help save global climate science in the middle of a climate crisis that threatened humanity?

March 28, 2025

JOHN ATTANASIO
ATTANASIO: A refresher course on conducting research responsibly

A little over two weeks ago, Akiko Iwasaki and colleagues published “Immunological and Antigenic Signatures Associated with Chronic Illnesses after Covid-19 Vaccination” on medRxiv. You […]

March 25, 2025

ZACH PAN
PAN: Deafening silence

Yale ought to deploy its resources to speak up and speak loudly. It should coordinate with other schools in the legal fight against the Trump administration on science, vaccines, funding and civil rights. Yale should vocally call out the Trump administration’s worst excesses. If universities band together, they cannot be picked off one by one. 

March 25, 2025

REDA RIFFI
RIFFI: NIH funding cut is impacting students

This year, I was selected as one of the seven American Cancer Society scholars here at Yale, as part of the Yale BioMed Amgen Scholars […]

March 24, 2025

ROHIL MOHAN
MOHAN: On the politicization of astrophysics

If the goal is to depoliticize universities, why are we making federal support for apolitical, educational goals contingent on agreement with inherently political positions? 

March 16, 2025

ARJUN WARRIOR
WARRIOR: Yale must protect its students. Here’s how

Liberal values like free speech and open discourse are anathema to authoritarians like Trump; free universities cannot exist in unfree societies. For Yale to pursue its mission of “improving the world through scholarship,” it must stand up to Donald Trump. President McInnis and the Board of Trustees must act.

March 15, 2025