Yale Free Press 2.0

08/15/2022

The Yale Free Press is pleased to announce
Ashlyn Wang as the winner of our annual freshman survey $100 drawing! 🎊 You can read Ashlyn's op-ed, "What Did It Take to Get to Yale? One Freshman’s Perspective," here: https://theyalefreepress.com/what-did-it-take-to-get-to-yale-one-freshmans-perspective/

By Ashlyn Wang, ’26 From all-nighters pulled for unfinished assignments, tears spilled over stressful situations, and eyebrows furrowed from jam-packed schedules, high school students have ex…

08/04/2022

Are Yale's older professors out-of-touch and outdated, or are they experienced and irreplaceable?🦉The YFP analyzes these dueling narratives in its exclusive exposé "Exonerating Woodward’s ‘Journalism’ Seminar: The Legacy He Deserves" https://theyalefreepress.com/exonerating-woodwards-journalism-seminar-the-legacy-he-deserves/

By Laura Williamson, DIV ‘23 In February, Yale Daily News ran an article by Lucy Hodgman and Isaac Yu on Prof. Susan Dominus ‘92 taking over the Journalism seminar that was formerly taught by legen…

08/03/2022

One author tackles the viral Chinese 🇨🇳 internet sensation of 'Nana from Russia' that sprang up in response to the Russo-Ukrainian war. Read "Digital Ghosts: Chinese Online Public Opinion over the War in Ukraine" here: https://theyalefreepress.com/digital-ghosts-chinese-online-public-opinion-over-the-war-in-ukraine/

08/03/2022

Is poverty a state of being or a state of mind? Are the rich🤑really more virtuous than the poor👩‍🌾? One YFP author brazenly tackles these issues in their essay "Character and Poverty as Studied Through Sweat and Sorrow" https://theyalefreepress.com/character-and-poverty-as-studied-through-sweat-and-sorrow/

Sweat pours from my brow. The sun has yet to rise over the snowy concrete of the parking lot. Cooling ice envelopes the ground in scattered patches. The frigid air soothes the heat in my blood as I…

08/01/2022

Why are college kids flippant about to***co, alcohol, and STDs? Why are we cavalier about death? ☠️These questions are explored in the YFP Editorial Board's article "Thanatos: Our Love Affair with Bad Decisions" https://theyalefreepress.com/thanatos/

07/30/2022

How should we balance environmental concerns with social activism? Are pride parades🌈problematic? 🙄The YFP boldly examines and answers these questions in its latest article, "LGBTQ+ 'Pride' is Killing the Environment" https://theyalefreepress.com/lgbtq-pride-is-killing-the-environment/

A crowd of LGBTQ+ activists clap and cheer as they do a festive balloon release during a city of Ferndale pride event. They are making a statement, a statement about their right to embody their exi…

07/29/2022

What is Yale's vision of a well-lived life? Hassaan Qadir interrogates the University's values in his latest piece "Does The Good Life Center Promote Good Lives?" https://theyalefreepress.com/yfp-spring-22-column-good-life-center/

If you like Hassaan's article, also check out YDS alum Sarah Birdsall's 2021 piece 👇"An Analysis of Yale Divinity School’s Vision of the Good Life" https://theyalefreepress.com/an-analysis-of-yale-divinity-schools-vision-of-the-good-life/

07/04/2022

Guess who's back? Happy Independence Day!