Yale Daily News

In this world we live in right now, voicing a belief apparently requires caution. Scrutiny from peers is to be expected. What has changed is the scrutiny we face beyond campus.

April 9, 2025

Public opinion changes through long-term campaigns of persuasion, usually outside of government. Politics has a different function, and muddying the distinction between it and activism makes the job of winning elections much harder. 

April 9, 2025

NLE Choppa’s lyrics blur the line between music and pornography. Does this kind of rhetoric give female Yalies the respect that they deserve?

April 1, 2025

Humanity is a language I believe all of us speak.

April 1, 2025

Private equity, investment banking and consulting can wait; enlist in the military, apply for a teaching fellowship or join the Peace Corps. 

March 28, 2025

The very idea of a university is on the line. Can Yale defend it — not just with words but also with deeds? 

March 27, 2025

As someone who has walked the paths of Yale both as an undergraduate and now as a lecturer, I’m often asked, “What lessons from your time in the special operations world would be helpful for us to know here?”


March 25, 2025

If the University truly values the sense of community it promotes, they should invest in strengthening it — not slowly undermining college dining to save money. If Yale can afford to keep hot lunch, it should.  

February 27, 2025

As college students, everyone in the dining hall is a peer: someone you can engage with at an equal level and who has no authority over your life or your beliefs. And specifically as Yale students, we talk obsessively about dialogue; just open the opinion section of the Yale Daily News website and every third article — including this one — is a meditation on the ways to reach a better quality of speech at Yale.

February 25, 2025

Rage, especially that of the young and idealistic, is proximate. When there’s an injustice in the world people often get mad at what’s close to them and not what’s really to blame. Yale students upset about Israel’s conduct in Gaza get mad at Yale; Yale students upset about climate change get mad at Yale; Yale students upset about New Haven get mad at Yale.

February 25, 2025

Some people use GCal. Others use pretty planners and agendas. Truth be told, I never did get good enough at using either.

February 25, 2025