Student Speak

Don’t send your kids to school
Ari Shtein | December 16, 2025
Manu Bosteels ’28 writes that Yale students should prefer to enroll their future children in the public school system, rather than ship them off to an exclusive private institution. His argument proceeds along two lines: first,

In defense of the common good
Arran Rounds | October 31, 2025
Our country is living through a fragile time. The divisions we face cut deep. Seeping into families, neighborhoods and the spaces where we once found common ground. Every tragedy seems to be politicized. Every

A thank-you to my parents
Ashti Tiwari | October 24, 2025
Honor generational sacrifices with gratitude, not guilt. If you stop me on Locust Walk for a fit check, most of what I am wearing started in my mom’s closet. My apartment tells the same

Save young men
Joshua Danziger | October 17, 2025
How are young men doing? Terribly. We are unemployed, depressed and sexually inactive. We are struggling in education, job placement and social flourishing. We are the perpetrators of our country’s recent mass shootings and political attacks. After many generations of

The language of tribalism: How political shibboleths are destroying discourse
Seth Gabrielson and Kenneth Sun | September 26, 2025
[Editor’s note: Our archives contain several years of excellent articles, most of which remain relevant and important to today’s young people and the adults who work with them. This one is a “Director’s Choice” that

Public service still serves the public.
Guest Contributors | September 19, 2025
This year has been unlike any other for the School for Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and its Scholars in the Nation’s Service (SINSI) program. For almost 20 years, SINSI has guided Princeton students

You don’t need to party in college to have a good time
Livia LaMarca | September 5, 2025
[Editor’s note: Our archives contain several years of excellent articles, most of which remain relevant and important to today’s young people and the adults who work with them. This one is a “Director’s Choice” that

How to navigate college as a Black girl from a white suburb
Danae Poteat | August 29, 2025
When I was 10 years old, my parents decided it was time for a change and moved us to the small town I now call home. In my most formative years as a child,

Keep academic authority in human hands
Lily Halbert-Alexander | August 23, 2025
In an otherwise insightful, hopeful, and at times even beautiful, piece in the New Yorker in April, Princeton Professor of History D. Graham Burnett makes one critical error: Compared to the rise of AI, he remarks,




