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On February 26th, Karl Rove, former Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush, addressed Yale students, hosted by the William F. Buckley Jr. Program. He discussed historical challenges within American politics, comparing past adversities to current political discord, and emphasized resilience and the possibility of overcoming current issues. Grant ShanklinAssociate Editor, The BeaconOn February 26th, Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush, spoke to a room of roughly 50 students at Yale University as a guest of the William F. Buckley Jr. Program. Drawing on his historical knowledge and experience under the Bush administration, his talk, “If You Think It’s Bad Today, It’s Been Worse Befor...

Robert P. George, Conservative intellectual and professor at Princeton, came to speak to the Buckley Program the necessity of breaking out of “groupthink” in order to achieve a true liberal arts education and overcome the budding challenge of campus illiberalism. Grant Shanklin and Sabrina GuoAssociate Editors, The BeaconElite colleges and universities, especially those among the Ivy League schools, lean noticeably left on the political spectrum, and Yale is no exception. In 2023, 98.4 percent of political contributions by Yale professors went to Democratic-affiliated groups, and in a survey of Princeton’s incoming class of 2026, only about 11.4% would describe themselves as “either somewhat or very right-...