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Speaking of The Times, it turns out that Yale may lose their free copies of the Gray Lady in dining halls. An op-ed columnist in The Yale Daily News opined about the potential loss, saying that the newspaper serves to "create well informed, broadly informed citizens." We, though, agree with the sentiment of HPRgument: "I can’t see why it should dumb down the Yalies—well, actually?...
...recall and one of precious few foreigners—surely this goes somewhere to explaining why foreign films and music are rarely featured in the Arts supplement. Similarly, the international affairs content on the editorial page, such as it is, can be ill-informed; take, for instance, the many op-eds written by American students after the Nov. 2008 terror attacks that variously and falsely suggested that Indian Muslims had identical political values to Muslims elsewhere and that there was little evidence for Pakistani involvement in the attacks...
...Their op-ed brims with innuendo and pretends to be revealing the former Harvard president’s views about women and features a “quote” that Summers—they think—would have used to respond to criticism. This would be perfectly fine on a page of a fiction magazine, since the total number of quotes by Summers not dreamed up by Farley and Stone in this op-ed is zero. Among the things Summers did say in his talk was that discrimination against women surely takes place in the U.S., but this...
Admittedly, the op-ed succeeded at one thing: application of stereotypes. The penultimate paragraph invites readers to, “[w]atch how quickly [women] can figure out that marked-down price of any clothing item during a sale.” Comments on this jewel are hardly necessary...
Despite the apparent progress of the interrogation, the unavailability of HIG has inspired fresh rounds of criticism from national security hawks. "Why wasn't his group brought in once this terrorist was taken into custody?" McConnell declared on the Senate floor. Former CIA Director Michael Hayden wrote in an op-ed last Sunday that while the Administration was still unprepared to question terrorists, interrogations of CIA personnel over Bush-era abuses are "well underway." William Burck, a former deputy counsel to President Bush, says the idea of the HIG is "fabulous" - but it needs to be implemented. The fact that...