Eli Muller
Eli Muller
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Senior Perspective: Eli Muller
Yale has innumerable traditions, social, political and academic, ranging from the silly (secret societies) to the exceptionally silly (building villages on Beinecke Plaza). I'll remember most of them with fond amusement in years to come. But there's...
The journalist we knew only in fearless, fiery print
In the fall of 1990, a young freelance reporter named Michael Kelly arrived in Baghdad to begin chronicling the human consequences of the impending Gulf War. For the next year he traversed the Middle East, hitchhiking through battles aboard an Egyptian...
An (almost) unsentimental education
I've spent the last few months lambasting classmates for ignorance, hysteria, and most recently bigotry. Yet I would be remiss if I did not devote a column, a few weeks from graduation, to how much I've learned from my classmates. This isn't a carpe...
Locating the hate in anti-Zionism
It has been an unpleasant week to be Jewish at Yale. On Tuesday, Dean Pamela George published a column to the effect that it was no more inappropriate to invite rabid anti-Semite Amiri Baraka to speak than it was to invite former members of the...
Yalies should care less and read more
As long as I've been at Yale, professors, guests and students have taken turns railing against apathy on campus. Yalies, we are told, care too little about the outside world, and prefer to live lives of complacent indifference surrounded by their...
Sympathy for the devil
James Kirchick's excellent column last week ("Singing the praises of dictators," 1/30) described how a group of American public health students returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia returned with a startlingly rosy portrait of a fundamentalist, despotic...
More schools? Uh-uh, more prisons
That crucial political issues tend to get reduced to bumper stickers in the mass media is no surprise; that this happens so frequently on college campuses is sadder but no less surprising. Sometimes sloganeering merely renders discussions silly and...
Psst, read on for the city's best kept secret
When I began writing this column, I conceived of it as a forum for exploring the difficulty of choosing courses of action in ghastly situations. I wanted to argue that in the muddy and tragic field of international relations, the options that seem...
Why fighting for oil isn't so preposterous
The most frequently repeated slogans often turn out to be the most inane when subjected to sustained scrutiny. Case in point: the mantra "No war for oil," which has been plastered across placards, bulletin boards and editorial pages for the last...
Bush's hidden motives are irrelevant
The decision to go to war is always a momentous one, not to be undertaken lightly. The importance of the question makes it that much more lamentable that so much of the discussion about Iraq consists of speculation as to Bush's "true" motives.