Congressman Tom Price, M.D. is the Chairman of the House Committee on the Budget and has represented the Sixth District of Georgia since 2004. Dr. Price serves on the Ways and Means Committee and was previously the chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee and the Republican Study Committee. Prior to his election to Congress, […]
In my one year at Princeton, I’ve uncovered an important truth—one that I imagine others who are fairly new to this thing called college also learn about themselves. I am wrong a lot. While at Princeton, I’ve discovered that I am wrong quite often—while answering questions on midterms, finding buildings on campus, and speaking with […]
Despite the recent stability among Europe’s nation-states, the continent has for generations been incredibly divided. In addition to wars and centuries-long rivalries, the demographic composition of the states themselves has often been a source of conflict. As alliances, conquests, and marriages merged the territories of Europe’s many kingdoms over the centuries, minority groups were invariably […]
Speaking at a ceremony conferring honorable citizenship upon Winston Churchill, President John F. Kennedy praised the former British prime minister for his “zest for freedom” in the face of grave danger. “Whenever and wherever tyranny threatened,” said Kennedy, “he has always championed liberty.” Indeed, this heroic support of political freedom and liberty is an extraordinary […]
To phrase things delicately, the Supreme Court’s recent decisions in King v. Burwell and Obergefell v. Hodges are unequivocally horrendous. Legal textualists and political conservatives will remember these majority opinions as among the worst of the twenty-first century. While Kelo v. New London and NFIB v. Sebelius were equally despicable, these cases at least were […]
Friends of democracy and the rule of law will remember King v. Burwell as one of the worst cases in recent memory. However, every cloud does indeed have its silver lining, today taking the form of a devastating dissent by Justice Antonin Scalia. While the dissent is worth reading in its entirety, below are ten of his […]
This issue will find you mired in exams in what is doubtless one of the more stressful stretches of your year. And of course in the following weeks you will be lost on a beach somewhere for dead week and then back on campus for graduation and reunions and then on your way to your […]
February 28th, 2015. Senior Night for the fourteenth-ranked Princeton women’s basketball team. The Tigers were aiming to set a new single-season wins mark versus the Brown Bears just one night after head coach Courtney Banghart set a program record for coaching wins. Going for their 27th straight victory, the Tigers started their four seniors who were […]
It is no secret that in the United States today, single motherhood has become increasingly common. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 12 million single-parent households in 2014 —over 80 percent of which were headed by single mothers. This phenomenon has already sparked widespread discussion centered on the economic hardships of these mothers, […]
This spring, Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR) will be once again be asking Princeton’s administration to take a stand in favor of increased access to higher education by ceasing to consider the criminal histories of prospective students in making admissions decisions. The initiative at Princeton—the Admissions Opportunity Campaign—is part of an emerging campaign […]
On April 5, 1986, Lehigh University student Jeanne Clery was raped and murdered in her dormitory by a fellow student who was in the process of robbing her. He had entered the dormitory through unlocked doors, a common occurrence in the days before campus crime statistics were reported. There was a national outcry against the […]
“If you want to see how the free market really works, this is the place to come.” Milton Friedman thus declared Hong Kong’s proudest boast, paying homage to what future commentators would deem the world’s freest economy. It all began with Sir John Cowperthwaite, a British civil servant who was commissioned as colonial Hong Kong’s […]
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