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8Sep By Owen TilmanNo Comments

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Welcome Back From The Buckley Beacon!

Our mission headed into a second full year of news reporting. Owen TilmanEditor-in-Chief, The Buckley BeaconIn June, renowned historian Sam Tanenhaus released his long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley, Jr., entitled, Buckley: The Life and Revolution That Changed America. Tanenhaus, after being hand-picked by Buckley to write the biography in 1998, then spent the next two-and-a-half decades analyzing Buckley’s extensive career as a prominent American polemicist and conservative intellectual. In a sit-down with The Atlantic shortly before the biography was published, Tanenh...

The World State: A Dystopian, Secular Theocracy

22May By Oscar Miñoso-RendónNo Comments

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The World State: A Dystopian, Secular Theocracy

Voltaire once warned, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." But what happens when we do? A Christian reading of Huxley’s Brave New World offers a prophetic warning for today’s so-called "secular" West. Oscar Miñoso-RendónStaff Writer, The Buckley BeaconIn Brave New World, Aldous Huxley presents readers with a dystopian state, whose organization, though secular, seems predicated on a Freudian, pseudo-religious counterfeit of Eastern and Western religious traditions. By making use of soma (the “opiate of the masses”), pseudo-religious rituals, and desire-based conditioning, the state seeks to suppress religious yearnings and create a world devoid of human suffering. In an age of digital escapism, hook-up...

1May By Isaac ObermanNo Comments

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‘It’s Trump’s Republican Party’: Megyn Kelly talks Trump, the Media Landscape at Buckley Event

21Apr By Raleigh AdamsNo Comments

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‘It’s Trump’s Republican Party’: Megyn Kelly talks Trump, the Media Landscape at Buckley Event

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...

Dmitri Shostakovich: Dissident or Ideologue?

15Apr By Jeth FoggNo Comments

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Dmitri Shostakovich: Dissident or Ideologue?

Was this Soviet composer’s renowned Symphony No. 5 a poster child for socialist realism, or a jab in the direction of Stalinism? Let’s unpack. Jeth FoggStaff Writer, The Buckley BeaconScholars have long disputed about the interpretation of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony — whether the piece epitomizes Shostakovich as a political dissident or as a Soviet ideologue. Was the subtitle of the piece, “A Soviet Artist’s Response to Just Criticism,” a sardonic jab at Stalin, or an earnest reorientation of Shostakovich’s composing to Soviet standards? Shostakovich was the subject of scathing criticism for his experimental compositions following the premiere of his opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District in 1934. In an edito...

Theocentric Humanism: A Catholic Response to Modernity

6Apr By Jeth FoggNo Comments

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Theocentric Humanism: A Catholic Response to Modernity

Age gives way to age, but the events of one century are wonderfully like those of another, for they are directed by the province of God, who overrules the course of history in accordance with His purposes in creating the race of man. ~ Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum Jeth FoggStaff Writer, The Buckley BeaconThe Enlightenment’s atomization of truth to human reason delegated ethical questions previously entrusted to the Church to the individual. Ethical behavior was no longer effected through divine grace and human freedom but by individual autonomy. In a Nietzschean estimation, it was no longer in God Whom “we live and move and have our being,” but rather, “God dies; materialized man thinks he can be man or superman only if God ...

Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles Speaks at Yale College Republicans Event

3Apr By Jack OlsonNo Comments

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Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles Speaks at Yale College Republicans Event

The Yale College alum and conservative talk show host discussed the state of American higher education in a speech to roughly 100 guests. Jack OlsonAssistant Editor of Interviews & Opinion, The Buckley BeaconThis past Tuesday, conservative commentator and host of the Daily Wire’s “The Michael Knowles Show” Michael Knowles (YC ‘12) spoke at an event hosted by Yale College Republicans, in collaboration with the Young America’s Foundation, or YAF.The event in Sterling-Sheffield-Strathcona’s lecture hall began with an introduction from Yale College Republicans president Manu Anpalagan (YC ‘26), who revived the organization earlier this academic year. Anpalagan thanked YAF for sponsoring the event and characterized the Colleg...

Yale Law Terminates Scholar’s Contract Following Allegations of Terrorist Org Connections

28Mar By Owen Tilman1 Comment

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Yale Law Terminates Scholar’s Contract Following Allegations of Terrorist Org Connections

“Ms. Doutaghi’s employment with Yale — which was already set to expire this April — has been terminated effective immediately,” a YLS spokesperson tells The Buckley Beacon. Owen TilmanEditor-in-Chief, The Buckley BeaconYale Law School has terminated the employment contract of Helyeh Doutaghi, a former Associate Research Scholar who was put on administrative leave on March 5 following allegations of her connections to Samidoun, a US-/Canada-designated terrorist organization, The Buckley Beacon has learned. Alden Ferro, a spokesperson for Yale Law School, told The Beacon in an email that Doutaghi refused to cooperate with the investigation, and to discuss her connections to specific individuals in the Samidoun network. “Over t...

Students Vandalize, Destroy Buckley Event Posters in WLH

26Mar By Raleigh Adams1 Comment

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Students Vandalize, Destroy Buckley Event Posters in WLH

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...

25Mar By Raleigh AdamsNo Comments

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Sweet Tea and Sacraments

Flannery O’Connor, the American South, and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Raleigh AdamsAssistant Editor of Campus Life & Administration, The Buckley BeaconThe American South is a region steeped in Christianity’s pervasive influence. From roadside billboards proclaiming the imminent rapture to picturesque little white churches dotting the countryside, the cultural landscape bears the indelible mark of the evangelical fervor ignited by the Second Great Awakening. Dominated socially and culturally by Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians, the South has long been considered the stronghold of Protestantism (Schweiger, B. B., and D. G. Mathews, “Religion in the American South: Protestants and Others in History and Cul...