Michael Magdzik
Michael Magdzik
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MAGDZIK: Twice bitten, finally shy
George Santayana’s observation that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is one of the most hackneyed phrases in all of writing.
DoD chief attorney plugs public service
The top lawyer at the Department of Defense encouraged law students to enter public service on Wednesday in front of a crowd of over 100 at Yale Law School.
MAGDZIK: Integrate grad students
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” was not written about graduate students, but it may as well have been.
Panel split on porn
Diverse feminist views collided Saturday in a panel discussion about the ethics of pornography.
Activist pushes investing transparency
Martin Bourqui suggested Friday that the Yale Investments Office should manage the University’s $19.4 billion endowment in more socially and environmentally responsible ways.
MAGDZIK: Scrutinize private lives
Last Thursday’s Republican debate featured a prime instance of one of the most pernicious movements in modern American politics – the attempt to divorce the private and public lives of politicians and make the former illegitimate fodder for voter scrutiny. Americans, and conservatives in particular, should resist this folly.
MAGDZIK: A specious case for science
In theory, the two required science credits serve to ensure “diverse intellectual pursuits for all Yale College students while encouraging flexibility and freedom to expand on individual interests, explore new curiosities, and take academic risks.” In practice, the science credits as they work now fail on all these counts.
MAGDZIK: Advent of the machines
Technological unemployment is a serious contributor to recessionary woes, and that the problem will only be exacerbated going forward. Our country as a whole needs to have a serious, intellectual discussion about the evolving American social contract, and demand the same of its candidates.
MAGDZIK: Finish the job in Libya
On June 4, 2009, President Barack Obama gave a historic speech in Cairo, directed towards the Muslim world at a time when difficult realities of the administration of the War on Terror strained many of America’s relationships with Middle Eastern countries and their populations.
MAGDZIK: Throwing out the banks with the bath water
A week ago, I was slightly concerned about the Occupy Wall Street movement. I thought some of its points about inequality were well taken, if not particularly eloquently made. Now, a week later, I’m worried.