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  • Yale Students Petition to ‘Abolish’ Major English Poets

    Yale Students Petition to ‘Abolish’ Major English Poets0

    The petition starts out polite enough. “We, undergraduate students in the Yale English Department, write to urge the faculty to reevaluate the undergraduate curriculum.” Then it gets a little chippy. We oppose the continued existence of the Major English Poets sequence as the primary prerequisite for further study. It is unacceptable that a Yale student

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  • Yale Student Explains Why It’s Necessary to Encourage Two-Parent Families

    Yale Student Explains Why It’s Necessary to Encourage Two-Parent Families1

    It’s graduation season and everyone is talking about success and how best to achieve it. This, of course, includes encouraging those who are victims of tragic circumstances to overcome their difficult pasts. One student who has done just that is Rob Henderson, a 2018 graduate of Yale University. Henderson’s story, which he explains in the

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  • Yale Professor Proposes Mass Suicide for the Elderly

    Yale Professor Proposes Mass Suicide for the Elderly1

    With a fertility rate of about 1.3 children per woman and a third of the population over 65, it seems inevitable that some Japanese should begin thinking about institutionalized euthanasia. One out of five people live alone and Japan has the highest proportion of people suffering from dementia. A film on the topic, Plan 75, was Japan’s

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  • Yale Dean’s Nasty Yelp Reviews Expose Underbelly of Ivy League Elitism

    Yale Dean’s Nasty Yelp Reviews Expose Underbelly of Ivy League Elitism0

    Via the Washington Post: “As the dean of Yale University’s Pierson College, June Chu is responsible for advising about 500 students and fostering ‘a familiar, comfortable living environment’ in keeping with the university’s residential college system. Chu’s biography states she has a PhD in social psychology and touts a long career in which she has

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  • Yale Dean in 1949: Stop Worrying About Security So Much

    Yale Dean in 1949: Stop Worrying About Security So Much0

    Recently, while reading an old book about a young man’s adventures at Yale, I came across a speech delivered by the dean of that school, who was speaking to the graduating class of 1949. Periodicals at the time apparently suggested that the graduating class had indicated it was “primarily interested in seeking security,” and the

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  • Wuhan Christians’ Response to the Coronavirus Shames the Chinese Government

    Wuhan Christians’ Response to the Coronavirus Shames the Chinese Government0

    With the world in turmoil as the coronavirus outbreak sweeps across Asia and threatens other continents, Christians in Wuhan, at the epicenter, are using the calamity to spread their faith. Their efforts deserve to be recorded as an exemplary example of Christian testimony. On February 11, The New York Times’ China correspondent Chris Buckley, who

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