OPINION
KIRKPATRICK |
KIRKPATRICK: Sharing Blackness

In high school, I was one of four Black students in my grade. There wasn’t much of a black unity between us; the school was […]

February 23, 2024

TEDLA | GUEST COLUMNIST
TEDLA: From exaggeration to fabrication

What is the line between embellishment and fraud? The former we tacitly acknowledge as necessary for our professional lives. The latter is a permanent black […]

February 23, 2024

YILDIRIM |
YILDIRIM: Graduate and Student Assembly DEI Chair resignation letter

To the Yale community,  I am writing to notify you of my resignation from my role as the Chairperson of the Diversity,  Equity, and Inclusion, […]

February 23, 2024

FEINSOD |
FEINSOD: A divided Yale Law School confronts the Israel-Gaza war

On Feb. 5, two events were held within hours of each other at Yale Law School; each reflecting a radically different understanding of reality. The […]

February 20, 2024

WAGNER |
WAGNER: Do We Want Virtual Reality? Really?

If you could predetermine your experiences while floating in a tank with your brain plugged into electrodes, would you?

February 19, 2024

AMEND | STAFF COLUMNIST
AMEND: Literature Makes the World Go Round

After graduating seven years ago, I’ve learned that making money in America revolves around knowing finance, data and science. Making money means understanding economics and ways to do business, and working in geopolitics. Writers and people who study good books rarely make a lot of money. But their literature is what makes the world go round. 

February 15, 2024

WILLIAMS |
WILLIAMS: A Lonely Valentine’s Day is No Valentine’s Day At All

The evolution of how we see Valentine’s Day as we get older is hauntingly indicative of how loneliness has grown in our society.

February 14, 2024

GUPTA |
GUPTA: Promoting Produce is Not Enough

Food prices are rising again. The complexities of our modern world place pressures on farmers and food systems: the war in Ukraine provoked global fertilizer […]

February 14, 2024

SU |
SU: Bigger Admissions Odds Lure Bigger Wallets

I never had any paid tutoring or college admissions support during my high school years. But I had to accept what was once an unfathomable fact: there are tens of thousands of parents who are willing to shell out tens of thousands of dollars to purchase a suite of services for their children without any guarantee of success.

February 14, 2024

GLICK |
GLICK: Over Apple’s Garden Walls

A college student’s holy trinity — iPhone, iPad, and Macbook. These three devices are the foundation of what we call the Apple Ecosystem. There are […]

February 14, 2024

MACKAY |
MACKAY: Disagree. Please.

Well before the horrific terror attacks of Oct. 7 and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza, discussing Israel on campus was complicated. Protests and rallies from […]

February 13, 2024