Student’s award-winning essay argues conservatives shouldn’t ‘give up’ on Yale

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A Yale student urged conservatives not to give up on the Ivy League university, arguing that “conservatism is not dead at Yale — not even close.”

Michael Samaritano, a sophomore history and philosophy major attending Yale, won the inaugural William F. Buckley Jr. Essay Contest, started by National Review Institute.

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