“The important thing is, Hiro, that you have to understand the Mafia way. And the Mafia way is that we pursue larger goals under the guise of personal relationships. … This is how we avoid the trap of self-perpetuating ideology. Ideology is a virus. So getting this chick back is more than just getting a chick back. It’s the concrete manifestation of an abstract policy goal. And we like concrete…”
         — Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash


The Cigarette Smoking Blog
         Helen Rittelmeyer — “Conservatism, Catholicism, Yale, film and music, one
         cigarette at a time.”

 The Reactionary Epicurean Blog
         “Will Wilson is an undergraduate at Yale University. His interests include
         mathematics, philosophy, and post-postmodernity.”

 The Flaming Libs
         Written by the members of the Liberal Party, with occasional contributions
         from the rest of the Yale Mafia.

 The West at Yale
         Someone Largely Unclear — “The author is a rising junior at Yale University.
         He writes about Colorado life and politics, Western issues, libertarianism and
         conservatism, and life at Yale.”

 Iqra’i
         Nicola, Dara, April, and Kate — You are here.

 The Yale Free Press Blog
         Written by the contributors of the Yale Free Press, “the magazine of Yale
         University’s cadre of alienated conservatives.”

 Conservative Hipster
         Adrian — “…personal blog of musings on music, culture, philosophy, and
         politics.”

 Supplemental Sections
         Leah Libresco — “Blogging tangentially related to the NYT supplemental
         section of the day.”