Ben Hayes

Oct 7, 2024 | cherwell.org | Ben Hayes

Affirmative action in America is gone, but the change in data so far doesn’t show clear racial balancing. Unlike Oxford, the American admissions system requires personal essays, extracurricular activities, and a range of demographic qualifiers. College progressives may be offsetting explicit racial quotas with a new emphasis on these categories.

Jun 6, 2024 | cherwell.org | Ben Hayes

Steven Pifer greets me at the door with a limp. He’d broken his kneecap en route to Kyiv three weeks ago, and scrambling for hotel bomb shelters in the wee hours of the morning hadn’t done his injury any favours. “The nice thing about this,” he jokes about his injury, “is I got dispensation to use the elevator.” Pifer was the American ambassador to Ukraine from 1998 to 2000. His house reflects it.

Apr 2, 2024 | bookstr.com | Ben Hayes

Historical fiction can often give a human, empathetic side to events and wars that occurred long ago. Readers have the chance to explore the motives people might have had and explore an author’s interpretation or retelling of familiar events. Once forgotten or overlooked historical events can be retold, subverted, or put into a different form. Notable books include Roman Blood by Steven Saylor.

Nov 10, 2023 | oxfordstudent.com | Ben Hayes

On 28 Oct, Mike Pence dropped out of the Republican presidential race. Donald Trump’s former VP had been trailing from the start. He’d waffled for months on whether to launch a campaign, eventually announcing his bid last of the major candidates. He’d squeezed into the first GOP debate by a hair, qualifying the latest of any candidate on stage except for the nonentity Asa Hutchinson. His campaign lacked funding, racking up by the time he packed up shop.

May 19, 2023 | wisden.com | Ben Hayes |Michael Rudling

In a letter to the Wisden Cricket Weekly podcast, Ben Hayes puts forward the case for one Test a year to be broadcast on terrestrial TV in the UK. I feel it important to stress I am not ‘against’ Sky Sports. The quality of the coverage, analysis and off-script discussion can often be as enjoyable as the live action itself. It’s a massive part of why I and so many others love watching Test cricket. I would never want to lose that.