It was not that long ago that people said the differences between Republicans and Democrats were negligible. But after watching both conventions these past weeks, it is clear that this dichotomy is no longer true. The Democratic Party spent a week in Denver offering solutions to the nation’s problems and hope for a better future. Last night, the Republicans...
Historically, citizens of the United States have been unable to agree on the big questions: how do we live and how do we live well? There seems, however, to be at least one tenet that few Americans will venture to question: the blessing of technological innovation. No matter what the goal of human life, the means to that end seem to lie in better technology. As...
JONATHAN KOCH Freshman Jonathan Edwards College After being accepted to the class of 2012, I spent a lot of time on the News’ website. It helped me to feel like a part of the Yale community long before I arrived on campus. The News provided a window into the lives of Yale’s most important resource: its students. Functioning as a window into life...
Pro: David Rudnick Do not be alarmed. That unfamiliar sensation you are currently experiencing, the lancing arc of retina-searing joy blistering down your neural pathways, is entirely expected. The News has planned for this. It has focus-grouped for this. It has spent many consulting, digesting, sleeping, refreshing and then re-consulting demographics...
In the Schiele drawing, black stockings and a red line between the legs. The book is on the floor, the breadknife beside it— Schiele’s shirt is large and white, formless, hymnal and without relation to the torso that he must have drawn first. —Raspberries for the bread, raspberries also the nipples and the pout, all making the red line look like...
I have been warned about the dangers of overpacking for college. Interns at work this summer shook their heads disparagingly when I told them I was going shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond for the sixteenth time, and my friends from high school laughed when I let them know them I was bringing all four pillows from my double bed to my extra-long twin college mattress. My copy...
Let me begin by saying that I have absolutely no idea why I am writing this piece. I am not a writer, and I don’t even have a thrilling summer story to serve as inspiration. I could write about how I am from sunny Los Angeles, or how I am not taking advantage of my last few weeks at home by hitting the underage clubs in Hollywood. But where’s the hook? Well into the...
Journalists are the only people who don’t love summer. News just doesn’t seem to happen as frequently or intensely during those balmy three months in the middle of the year. So I would imagine the press was not disappointed when Russia invaded Georgia. But this summer, it seems the media has an even better friend than Vladimir Putin: ex-presidential candidate John...
Following his conquest of the Crimea, Russian General Grigori Potemkin is said to have built empty façades meant to resemble small towns along the banks of the Dnieper River. As history tells it, he hoped the sight of these settlements would impress foreign dignitaries traveling through the region with Catherine the Great. His objective was to convince them that Russia...
Standing on Class Day — for peace By Yonah Freemark and Lea Krivchenia We are two Yale seniors against the war. We will graduate in the year 2008, the fifth year of the conflict in Iraq. Like many of our fellow Yalies, we ended our high school years with an energy and determination to speak out against a war that we considered unjust. We both went...
