OPINION
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NISSLEY: Our time at Yale is ticking

For most students, Yale is a golden ticket in life, but the unique opportunities we have at Yale create a culture of chaotic hurry where what matters most in life is often entirely neglected. 

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ROSENFELD: When campus protests got results

By standing up to the U.S. government, the students had achieved what their government had tried and failed to achieve in Vietnam.

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CLIFTON: Answering Yale’s million-dollar question

The truth, as always, is more complicated than the Yale Endowment Justice Collective’s initial claim — but not necessarily less troubling. Yale claims to educate, to pursue light and truth. Yet there is no light shed or truth told by channeling a million dollars to support foreign soldiers.

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GRAHAM-MARTINEZ: Violence is rarely the answer

At Yale, we should avoid falling into the trap of believing that everything evil is violent so as to not falsely legitimize the horrors of actual violence.

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SHTEIN: Lock the loud up, New Haven

Someday soon, though, the hiring shortages will resolve. And on that day, there will be a reckoning for the noisemakers.

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MOHAN: Scrolling together

I see a new shared language emerging for the next generation of college students and young people, built around two centers of online gravity and short-form video content: Instagram and TikTok. 

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KIRMAN: Exploring and exploiting in college, and in life

Explore boldly, then exploit wisely. I tend to be a creature of habit with food, but even I sometimes venture beyond chicken at Commons.

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ABOUKHATER: On Khaled Abu Toameh’s vapid Poynter Fellowship seminar

The Poynter Fellowship would have served its mission more honorably by disengaging altogether from the subject of Israel-Palestine than by hosting a state stenographer who dodged questions, and avoided the very truths journalists are supposed to pursue.

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DANZIGER: Was Charlie Kirk a modern William F. Buckley ’50?

The stylistic divide between Buckley and Kirk shows how American conservatism has moved from elite, print-era persuasion to the fast, populist spectacle of the social media age.

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KOHLER-HAUSMANN: A Yale worth fighting for?

I hope this is the season those in the Yale administration take their own advice to heart. That is where you, the student body, come in. You have more power than you think to make those in power braver and more honest. If this university is to stand for anything substantive in these trying times, you will have to make it do so.

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SANTOPIETRO: Am I late to the performative male contest? 

What does it say about the state of liberal arts and higher education that it has become taboo to publicly read a book on a college campus?