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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

As a pediatrician, my commitment is to the health and well-being of my patients. A child tax credit is a proven strategy to improve the lives of children and families — and it’s time for Connecticut to take action.

January 17, 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

To me, the beloved Mumbai streets seemed noisy, a sound I tried to drown out with the handy noise-canceling feature of my AirPods. But if you really zoom in and focus, each person sings their own tune. And each tune is worth knowing.

January 13, 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 suppose I am shocked that collegians, including Yalies, were shocked and maddened to hear a speaker at Yale's Political Union on the topic of free speech use the word “n****r.”

December 13, 2024

The bottom line is that the Yale Political Union should not have invited me to talk about free speech if, without warning me, it had set a limit on what I could, and could not, say.

December 13, 2024

I hope, in the future, we continue to foster a space of discourse: speech that pushes past our limits of thought, in service of community instead of division. I believe we will. 

December 6, 2024

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

December 6, 2024

If we want to understand Donald Trump’s most recent election, at least part of the answer is here at home. The fingerprints of our elite institutions are all over this fascist moment. And among our elite institutions, there is perhaps no greater culprit than the Yale Law School.

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