News

Gen. Jay “Father of the Space Force” Raymond discussed the role of commercial space, threats posed by Chinese and Russian space advancement, and US classification challenges at the Schmidt Program on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, and National Power. William CoenStaff Writer, The Buckley BeaconOn Monday, General Jay Raymond (ret.), the first Chief of Space Operations of the U.S. Space Force, spoke at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs as a guest of the Schmidt Program’s Outer Space Symposium. The symposium is a speaker series based on a Jackson School course, Global Affairs 280: The Space Domain and Global Security, a class co-taught by Senior Lecturer in Global Affairs Edward Wittenstein and Colonel Le...

Notre Dame Professor of Law Rick Garnett (LAW ‘95) argued the separation of church and state does not require religion to be “put behind a wall” at an event with the Buckley Institute this past Wednesday. William CoenStaff Writer, The Buckley BeaconOn Wednesday, Rick Garnett (LAW ‘95), Paul J. Schirl/Fort Howard Corp. Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, visited the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program to speak about the Constitution’s messages regarding the separation of church and state.Professor Garnett argued that many Americans misunderstand the meaning of the separation of church and state, and characterized religious freedom as a fundamental and foundational human right with a “structural limitation on the cla...

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...

CIA analyst, Yale grad, and former Yale Daily News copy staffer pleads guilty to posting Israeli plans for retaliatory strike on social media. David DumontetStaff Writer, The Buckley BeaconFormer CIA analyst Asif Rahman (YC ‘13), who as a Yale undergraduate was Senior Copy staffer at the Yale Daily News, pleaded guilty Friday to leaking 17 classified documents to a Telegram channel, at least two of which were considered Top Secret by the U.S. government. Rahman was tried in Virginia following an FBI investigation which traced the leaked documents on the Telegram channel “Middle East Spectator” to his workstation in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The October 17 leak, first reported by Axios, exposed Israel’s plans for retaliatory str...