On the newest episode of Pod and Man at Yale, Christian theologian and Grove City College Professor Carl Trueman breaks down the central question and broader implications of his new book, The Desecration of Man: “If you ask somebody, who are you? That question is incredibly complicated today in a way that it wouldn’t have been, say, six or seven hundred years ago.”“If you want to shock people, you have to smash the orthodoxy of the previous generation. And there is no more powerful orth...

On the newest episode of Pod and Man at Yale, Buckley fellows Noah Torrance ’28 and Blake Freeman ’29 talk about their experience with open discourse at Yale. Noah Torrance: "Maybe not everyone goes through Yale constantly being challenged in some way, but I think I definitely have. And the spaces that I've found in Yale, like the Buckley Institute, do a really great job of that."Torrance: "I was actually doing a campus tour…through one of the protests, through the Beinecke encampment,...

In the first episode of the spring semester, Lux et Veritas Leadership Fellows Audrey Bae ’28, Joe Gicante ’28, and Constantine Semka ’28 discuss the value of liberal arts, why they think it's worth it to pay Yale tuition to study the humanities, and what liberal arts can teach us about Trump and Venezuela: Semka: “I think maybe that liberal education sets you back in the first couple years, but it really gives you an advantage later in life because what we learn in liberal education is how t...

In the most recent episode of Pod and Man at Yale, Buckley Fellows Nico Sahi SOM ’26 and Toby Neal ’27 talk about being liberal at Yale and as members of the Buckley Institute: Nico Sahi: “I really wanted to learn a little bit more about conservative ideologies, partly because maybe I’ll change my own mind about something, but also that you can’t debate something that you don’t understand yourself.”Toby Neal: “The recent events of the Charlie Kirk assassination were very much on my mind...

In the newest episode of Pod and Man at Yale, Mickey Lin ’26 and Justin Greenman GSAS reflect on their trip to see Hamilton on Broadway with the Buckley Institute and discuss their thoughts on the Founders: Lin: “When I was working on the Hill and I had to give capital tours, I was like, now, looking back, yeah, we never really talked about Hamilton…”Greenman: “I think there’s this perception that, oh, we’ve never been more divided. No, we have been extremely divided, right—you think of Hamil...

In the first Pod and Man at Yale episode of the fall semester, Will Flanigan '27, Hilda Barragan-Reyes '26, and Stephen Morris '27 discuss free markets, capitalism, and Zohran Mamdani: Hilda Barragan-Reyes: “I think people don’t necessarily disagree with the premise that capitalism is the best system. I think they often don’t understand what capitalism is and what socialism is.”Stephen Morris: “I do think many people have a sense of guilt in that there’s a lot of factors beyond our control th...

On the last episode of the spring semester, Pod and Man at Yale brought two military veterans, Valerie Calderon-Meyer ’27 and Galen Jones MPH/MBA '26, to talk about post-military life at Yale: Calderon-Meyer: “Most of my friends are graduates or PhD students who are within my age group. I think I feel deeper connections in that way.” Jones: “The school of management, I’ve had a very, I think, easy time fitting in. 10% of the student body are veterans. So, it’s a very high percentag...

On this week’s episode of Pod and Man at Yale, Buckley Beacon Editor-in-Chief Owen Tilman ’27 interviewed climate policy expert Bjorn Lomborg ahead of his talk at Yale: Lomborg: “The world is actually, on pretty much all measurable variables getting better, but there are still lots of problems to fix. But let’s stop fixing them because we think this is the end of the world…let’s be smart and think about what we can do best.” Lomborg: “It’s really really wrong when scientists try to...

On the newest episode of Pod and Man at Yale, Anshul Guha ’25 and Kevin Baisden LAW ’25 talked about what it means to be conservative at Yale: Guha: “I think the most important thing for me, as a conservative on campus at that time, was to make sure that I was continuing to speak out…and making sure that my views were heard just so that there was this opposing view on campus.”Baisden: “I didn’t self-censor. None of my closest friends at the law school self-censored. Even in classes—I’m ...

On the newest episode of Pod and Man at Yale, Abhinay Lingareddy ’26, Will Flanigan ’27, and John Byler ’28 discuss the storied Yale Political Union, its conservative bent, and the state of debate on Yale’s campus: Byler ’28: “On the left, in the party of the left, the progressive party, I would be shocked to find a single trump voter. But in the Federalist Party, and I what I presume to be other conservative parties as well, there’s a pretty even split between Republican and Democrat v...