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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...

“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...

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...

Dr. Rasha Alawieh was detained by federal agents in Boston after returning from a trip to Lebanon despite her possession of an H-1B visa. Will CoenStaff Writer, The Buckley BeaconDr. Rasha Alawieh, an assistant professor at Brown’s medical school who was a resident at Yale’s Waterbury Internal Medicine Program, was detained on March 13 at Boston Logan International Airport by federal agents after returning from Lebanon. According to federal agents, Alawieh acknowledged that she had attended the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, the former leader of Hezbollah who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in September 2024, while in Lebanon. Federal agents said they found photos of Nasrallah and Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei on her p...

Helyeh Doutaghi has been “placed on an immediate administrative leave,” Yale Law’s Senior Associate Director of Public Affairs tells The Buckley Beacon.  Owen TilmanEditor-in-Chief, The Buckley BeaconHelyeh Doutaghi, an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School, has been placed on “immediate administrative leave” less than 24 hours after reports were published outlining Doutaghi’s alleged connections to the Samidoun Network, a designated terrorist organization. Alden Ferro, Senior Associate Director of Public Affairs at Yale Law School, tells The Buckley Beacon in an email, “We take these allegations extremely seriously and immediately opened an investigation into the matter to ascertain the facts.” Ferro then noted that...

As of 2022, Helyeh Doutaghi, a YLS research scholar, is allegedly a member of the Samidoun Network, designated as a terrorist organization by Canada and a “sham charity” by the US Treasury Department. In August 2024, she was also interviewed by Iranian state-owned media in her official capacity as a “legal scholar” at “Yale University.” Owen TilmanEditor-in-Chief, The Buckley BeaconHelyeh Doutaghi, an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School, is allegedly a member of the Canada-based Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, or Samidoun. Samidoun is designated as a terrorist organization by the Canadian government and a “sham charity” for the Gaza-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or PFLP, whi...

Atuahene argued that property tax foreclosures based on illegally inflated taxes are driving Black Americans out of their homes.                   William CoenStaff Writer, The Buckley BeaconOn February 27, author Bernadette Atuahene spoke about her book Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America at the Yale Divinity School’s Center for Public Theology and Public Policy. The event featured a panel led by Reverend William Barber II, founding director of the Center, alongside Atuahene, Professor James Forman Jr. of Yale Law, and Alexandra Nichols, a Detroit resident whose home was threatened by tax foreclosure. The talk also served as the first installment of the McSurely-Pelles-Eguavoen speaker se...

Buckley’s firing line debate between Patient Rights Action Fund's Matt Vallière and Penn State's Megan Wright (LAW '16) wrestled with the need for and danger of assisted suicide in America. Fiona BultonsheenStaff Writer, The Buckley BeaconThis past Wednesday, dozens of Yale students gathered in William L. Harkness Hall for an intimate firing line debate on the topic of physician-assisted suicide, formally known as medical aid in dying, or MAID. The debate speakers were Matt Vallière and Megan Wright (LAW '16), taking the negative and affirmative stance on the question, respectively. Vallière is the Executive Director of the Patients Rights Action Fund and an emergency medical services first responder dedicated to protecting ...

The author of The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, explaining why a colorblind society is the best path for America. Kiran YehStaff Writer, The Buckley BeaconOn Thursday, February 13, Coleman Hughes, author of The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, spoke to the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program. In his book, Hughes advocates for a colorblind approach to American culture and policy. Hughes argued that adopting a colorblind perspective — what he calls the “MLK ethic” due to its roots in the Civil Rights Movement — more effectively addresses the goals of today’s prevalent “anti-racist” progressive movement. To contrast the “MLK ethic” with modern “progressive pushback,” Hughes expla...