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What is most shameful is not Vice President Vance’s successful exploitation of my home and my university — rather, it is what he has done with the acclaim.

February 11, 2025

I get the draw of Hinge, Tinder and the rest: the dopamine rush is real, and it’s so tempting to think an algorithm can spit out our perfect match. But maybe what we crave isn’t more matches — it’s more meaningful connections. Maybe the path to “the one” isn’t about refining our filters, but about being better friends, neighbors and classmates to each other.

February 11, 2025

We, residents of the richest country in the history of the world, have an obligation to help the sick and destitute, even if they’re thousands of miles away. But providing foreign aid to countries that need it isn’t just an ethical duty. It’s central to the way America engages with the rest of the world. And it’s central to the way that we project power and goodwill. That creates a bit of a dilemma for the program’s supporters.

February 6, 2025

Dialogue in the States is being drained of its substance and filtered of its true essence until all that’s left is a series of withered, shallow word jumbles.

February 6, 2025

All of us want our friends to talk to us because they enjoy talking to us, not for external, opportunistic reasons. We should apply the same lesson to meditation, eating and prayer. 

February 6, 2025

As a young scientist, I am pretty angry right now. I am angry about how ignorance is going to preclude our scientific community from doing the work we love. I am furious about all the progress that will not be made, all the knowledge that we will not grasp and all the lives that we will not be able to save or better. 

February 6, 2025

Former Olympian, current columnist, and job-seeking senior Laura Zeng revisits Marina Keegan's classic "Even Artichokes Have Doubts" column and tracks down the students interviewed to see where they are now.

February 6, 2025

If one wishes to approach the current debate over immigration in high intellectual terms, it is wiser, I think, to do so from the vantage point of Aristotle’s common sense, pagan though it be, rather than to try to settle the matter on intra-mural Christian grounds.

February 6, 2025

When I returned to the States from Tokyo, I was surprised to learn that I was “Wasian.” This is partly because that term, a portmanteau […]

February 4, 2025

Ramaswamy is right in saying that our culture should assign significant importance to academics. But he wholly misses why interpersonal abilities are so valued in American culture.

February 4, 2025

I hope that what I write for the News stands the test of time. But, to whoever stumbles across this article 100 years from now in the Yale Daily News Archive, I merely have one request: please give me grace.

February 4, 2025