It’s a Big Club, and You Ain’t in It
In Season 5, Episode 7 of Gilmore Girls, Rory Gilmore—ever the ambitious Yale student journalist—follows whispers and cryptic clues to the Life and Death Brigade, a secret society of Yale’s…
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An Incoming Student’s Guide to University Fees
…such as Harvard and Yale can cost $35,800 per year. Your choice of educational institution will determine the level of your student debt, so choose with confidence. While the government…
Merit Means Nothing if Opportunity Can Be Bought
…even staged photos to make students appear as star athletes, securing them spots at schools like Yale, Stanford, University of Southern California, and Georgetown. Though the scandal involved a small…
Colleges Ignored Their Prophets—Now They Pay the Price
…75 years ago: “Yale Head Warns of Federal Gifts.” Charles Seymour, longtime Yale president, had announced his plans to retire and said if colleges—specifically private schools—wished to control their own…
Jewish Studies Has a Problem—And It’s Anti-Semitism
…that Zionism was a means for him to “expose his genitals.” Yale University Press published these garbage ideas as part of its “Jewish Lives” series. His work does not appear…
Trump Allows Chinese Students into U.S. Universities in Exchange for Rare Earth Minerals
…energy markets. Tsinghua University also maintains partnerships with Yale, Columbia, and several other elite American institutions, as reported by Ian Oxnevad, the National Association of Scholars’s senior fellow for foreign…
Harvard and the Birth of Lawfare
…first requires an enemy created by ideological division and class envy, ultimately leading to lawlessness. [RELATED: Yale, Harvard, UChicago: The Leftist Legal Trust Shredding the Constitution] That may be the…
This Is the Degree Behind the DEI Takeover of Campus Life
A century ago, student dormitories were supervised by faculty who lived in the buildings, a tradition that remains at Harvard, Yale, and elite prep schools such as Phillips Andover. The…
Harvard Sets the Tone—And It’s Off-Key for Jews
…of Pennsylvania, Harvard, NYU, and Yale, Jewish enrollment fell by double digits. Even schools considered increasingly popular among Jewish students have lower percentages today than a decade ago. Emory University,…
Susan Neiman Wants Her Left Back
…Free University of Berlin. An associate professor of philosophy, she taught at Yale University from 1989 to 1996 and at Tel Aviv University from 1996 to 2000. She was the…
Stand Up for Science? Try Standing Up for Scientists Shunned for Thinking Freely
…Erika Christakis were driven to resign by excited and intolerant students who accused them—among other vague accusations—of wanting to create an intellectual space at Yale instead of a safe space?…
The Trump Administration and International Student Enrollment at Harvard
…Yet in practice, she often acts as though she is answerable to no one—not to Congress, not to the courts, and certainly not to the American people. [RELATED: Yale, Harvard,…
Yale, Harvard, UChicago: The Leftist Legal Trust Shredding the Constitution
…either overwhelmingly graduated from Yale Law, taught at Yale, were visiting faculty at Yale, published through Yale, and/or were hired from Yale. Moreover, nearly all the speakers were Democrats—98.4 percent…
Sidky’s Postmodern Purge: Right on Anthropology, Wrong on Balance
…the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University and whose researchers do quantitative and comparative studies to see if they can construct tentative ethnographic hypotheses and use statistics to…
Democrats Outnumber Republicans 5 to 1 as Commencement Speakers
…universities become more intellectually diverse, he said. Image: “Then-Vice President Joe Biden delivering a commencement speech to the graduating class of 2015 at Yale University” by David Lienemann on Wikipedia…
To Rescue Science, Phase Out Research Grants
…their universities before World War II. For example, the pursuit of prestige rewards was a significant driver of the development of particle physics. In the 1930s, MIT, Harvard, Yale, and…
How to Foster Authenticity in the Classroom
…they will be excited to learn with you. My advice comes as higher education is in the national spotlight. This past semester alone saw student protests at Yale targeting Zionist…
How China Took Over University Climate Science to Weaken America
…the president of Yale University, and UC Berkeley’s own Chancellor, Rich Lyons. Also included on the board is the president of the London School of Economics, the president of the…
Controversial PhD Project Scrubs Racially Exclusionary Wording from Website
…article has been updated to add information about The PhD Project’s partner universities in 2024. Image: “Yale University Old Campus” by Ad Meskens on Wikimedia Commons. Yale is one of…
There Is No University Without the Resurrection
…life. Christianity has thus fostered literacy around the world and has contributed to the life of learning in countless ways. The founding statements of Yale, Harvard, and Princeton all affirm…
The Economist Flops on Higher Ed
…and university campuses in recent years, backed by videos, documents, and thousands of reports. Its podcast, “Free speech: Trump’s university cuts will gut higher learning,” doubles down, with Yale’s Nicholas…
Should the U.S. Close Its Graduate Law Schools?
…of Chicago and, to some extent, to Yale Law. As in most things in academic law, it reflects a tendency to link law to some other discipline in order to…
Where Were You, Obama?
…Where were you in 2015 when students at Yale University berated Nicholas Christakis over failing to create a “safe space” and demanded his resignation over hysteria about Halloween costumes and…
End Athletic Admissions to Military Academies
…Colonel Richard Anderson. I am not hopeful. The same sociological forces which drive Yale to favor less academically talented lacrosse players affect admissions decisions at the Air Force Academy. This…
The Trickle-Down Strawman—It’s How Leftists Incite Public Outrage Against Tax Cuts
…philosophy, politics, and economics at some of the world’s most prestigious institutions, including Oxford and Yale, recently reminded his 3.8 million followers on Facebook: [T]rickle-down economics was invented by conservatives…
The Convenient Projection of Samuel Freedman on Kevin Roberts: Unpacking the Biases of Progressive Paternalism
…be a form of class anxiety—not economic, but academic. His disdain for Roberts mirrors the broader intellectual establishment’s reaction to figures like J.D. Vance (J.D., Yale University) or Josh Hawley…
The Rebel Campus Boosters Rising Up Against Wokeness on Campus
…universities have formed campus chapters, such as the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard, the Princeton Council on Academic Freedom, and kindred faculty groups at Yale, MIT, Columbia, and Duke….
The Return of Campus Encampments: Ideological Echo Chambers
…wave French critical theory who has held appointments at Columbia University, the Brookings Institution, the University of Penn, Berkeley, Yale, and Duke, among others outside the United States. Mbembe’s now…
‘A Slave to DEI’—Baylor Twists Scripture to Justify Slavery Memorial
…cultural pressures, forcing them to choose between remaining faithful to their founding principles or conforming to progressive ideologies. Some, like Harvard and Yale, abandoned their theological roots long ago. For…
A Groundbreaking, Unprecedented, Never-Before-Seen Discovery—That’s Been Noted for Decades
…YubaNet.com, Latin Times, the Straits Times, LAist, ChipChick, Firstpost, and more. Popular science magazines, such as Smithsonian, Earth.com, Popular Science, ScienceDaily, Yale Environment 360, University of California, SciTechDaily, StudyFinds, Gizmodo,…