Yale Daily News

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

We began 2025 ablaze.  The winds reached over 90 miles per hour. Our windows, locked and bolted, blew open in the middle of the night. […]

January 27, 2025

Yale is prioritizing individual student housing choice over the health of the residential college system. But the numbers make it clear: Yale cannot have it both ways. And we say that given the choice, Yale should make good on its bold claims and enable the Colleges restoration to their proper place as one of the glories of Yale.

January 22, 2025

Indeed, Vance’s success demonstrates the continued relevance of institutions like Yale amid a cultural shift away from the Ivy League. Yale’s policy of institutional neutrality goes on to indicate that statements on the issues of the day might be permissible when they “directly implicate the university’s core values or concrete interests.” If Yale’s mission really is to “educate leaders worldwide who serve all sectors of society,” as we hear so often quoted by administrators, then Vance’s election surely serves the University’s concrete interests — making it fair game for institutional recognition.

January 22, 2025

A political movement needs a story to tell about itself and the one Kamala Harris told wasn’t particularly moving. Winning back the seats of power in Washington will require a story that appeals to ordinary Americans — and, above all, an ethos.

January 17, 2025

Birth rates have declined in the United States for a number of reasons: the high cost of raising children, delayed marriage and child-bearing, housing affordability costs and changing societal norms. At the center of this crisis is a simple fact: it’s too expensive for many to have many kids. 

January 13, 2025

I hope my directness wasn’t too harsh, but why self-censor? Sticks and stones, am I right?

December 6, 2024

I want my fellow brothers and sisters to choose to learn about the Bible in churches and community gatherings. But I also want my Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Agnostic, Atheist and other non-Christian friends to go to school without the interference of a Christian Nationalist agenda that blends the necessary line between religion and politics. I want Bibles to be out of public schools. 

December 6, 2024

Imagine a group of students so locked in that they remain unfazed in their studies during the Naked Run. As their peers hoot and holler, these students sit around a table together with their noise-canceling headphones, unbothered by any sort of shenanigans, naked or not. They grind throughout the Naked Run. Grind in a studious sense. Not a lewd one. 

December 5, 2024

You do not have to prove anything else. You intrinsically possess that unique ability to clear hurdles into oblivion as you become all that you undertake. If you want to meet and exceed the next set of invisible metrics, continue being you. You possess the talent but you must relinquish the belief that you control the situation and its outcomes. And when — not if — we have setbacks in the future, we must remember that they do not constitute failures on our part or reflections of our value.

December 5, 2024

So I reach the central tension — America faces a culture steeped in distrust and misinformation, where dishonesty is often justified by appeals to ideology. This erosion of trust has weakened the authority of our central institutions. The path forward demands an answer to a profound challenge: how can we rebuild integrity and restore confidence?

December 5, 2024