Author: Raleigh Adams

Amid generational shifts toward socialism in the United States, Dr. Richard Wolff emphasized the need to study up on Marx’s economic and historical theories. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Dr. Richard Wolff on stage at the Yale Political Union on December 2, 2025. (Credit: Raleigh Adams) Raleigh AdamsOriginal Reporting Editor, The Buckley BeaconOn Tuesday, the Yale Political Union (YPU) concluded its fall 2025 programming with a visit by Dr. Richard Wolff, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a renowned expert on Marxian economics. Wolff was invited to speak on the resolution, “Resolved...

Chief Anthony Campbell’s tenure includes overseeing the Yale Police Department’s response to pro-Palestine protests in spring 2024. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Chief Anthony Campbell, who first joined the Yale Police Department in 2019. (Credit: Harold Shapiro) Raleigh AdamsOriginal Reporting Editor, The Buckley BeaconChief Anthony Campbell (YC ‘95, DIV ‘09), who has led the Yale Police Department (YPD) since 2022, is departing to join the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) in early January. The development was first announced on Thursday in a schoolwide email to Yale University students by Duane Lovello, Head of Public Safety. A similar announcement ...

University braces for $300 million annual impact from the higher federal endowment tax, which includes the introduction of retirement incentives and more cost-saving measures. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. (Credit: Buckley Institute) Raleigh AdamsOriginal Reporting Editor, The Buckley BeaconLast week, Yale University Provost Scott Strobel announced a series of new financial measures, including a one-time retirement incentive, in response to the increased federal tax on university endowment income from 1.4 to 8 percent, effective July 1, 2026. Strobel estimates the higher tax will cost the university roughly $300 million annually.The late September announcement fol...

Elias Theodore and Norah Laughter will go head to head today following Rhea McTiernan-Huge’s dropping out over the weekend.  ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Norah Laughter (‘26), Rhea McTiernan-Huge (‘27), and Elias Theodore (‘27) participate in a town hall in Dwight Hall on September 1. (Photo credit: Yale Democracy Project) Raleigh AdamsOriginal Reporting Editor, The Buckley BeaconElias Theodore (YC ‘27) and Norah Laughter (YC ‘26) will face off today in the Democratic primary to be Ward 1’s representative on New Haven’s Board of Alders—the city’s 30-person municipal legislative body—for the two-year term beginning next year. On Saturday evening, Rhea McTiernan-Huge (YC ‘27), who had be...

The former Fox and NBC journalist discussed the state of American journalism and politics at an event with the Buckley Institute this past Wednesday. Raleigh AdamsAssociate Editor of Campus Life & Administration, The Buckley BeaconThis past Wednesday, Megyn Kelly, former Fox and NBC news anchor and current host of “The Megyn Kelly Show” on SiriusXM, spoke at an event with the Buckley Institute at Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall. Kelly’s speech came just several weeks after a Buckley event was vandalized by student protesters in Yale’s William H. Harkness Hall. The event’s posters, advertising a firing line debate on the topic of biological sex and its legal recognition, were ripped and crumpled, with protesters also p...

Posters for a firing line debate on biological sex were ripped and crumpled by student demonstrators. Others were covered with mock posters, one reading, “Come get your genitals inspected.”  Raleigh AdamsAssistant Editor of Campus Life & Administration, The Buckley BeaconOn Wednesday afternoon, student demonstrators in William L. Harkness Hall vandalized and destroyed posters advertising a firing line debate hosted by the Buckley Institute, witnesses tell The Buckley Beacon. The debate between Michael Ulrich, Associate Professor of Health, Law, Ethics, and Human Rights at Boston University, and Ryan T. Anderson, president of the conservative-leaning Ethics and Public Policy Center, or EPPC, centered on the question, “Sho...

Yale will expand undergraduate classes by 100 students beginning with the class of 2029, Scott Strobel and Pericles Lewis, Provost and Dean of Yale College, respectively, announced Tuesday. Raleigh AdamsAssistant Editor of Campus Life & Administration, The Buckley BeaconThe Yale Office of the Provost and Office of the Dean of Yale College, in a joint online statement, announced on Tuesday their plans to increase undergraduate class sizes by 100 students per academic year starting this fall with the prospective class of 2029.Per the release, co-written by Dean Pericles Lewis and Provost Scott Strobel, the increase in undergraduate student body size will result in a total of 1,650 students per class. Over time, this growt...