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Former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie Reflects on the State of N.J. Politics and the 2020 Presidential Race as Part of a Promotional Book Tour

/February 9, 2019

Former N.J. Gov. Christie speaks at the Douglass Student Center at Rutgers University. Courtesy of News Writer Robbie Freeman. NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – On Feb. 5 at 7 p.m., the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University hosted former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for a discussion on his new book, Let me Finish: Trump, […]

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Points and Punts

/April 7, 2017

Recognition of longtime Tory staffer Solveig Gold is in order, as she was one of the two winners of the University’s Pyne Prize last month. The Pyne Honor Prize, established in 1921, is awarded to seniors who have most clearly manifested excellent scholarship, strength of character and effective leadership. Congratulations, Solveig!  After an undefeated season […]

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Our Veterans – A Princeton Perspective

/April 7, 2017

Princeton advertises its efforts for diversity of all types among its undergraduates, stating that it “aspires to be a truly diverse community in which individuals of every gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status can flourish.” Yet one particular group that possesses an extremely diverse set of experiences and skills is massively underrepresented— […]

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The Problem with the Big Tent

/April 7, 2017

Out of the tumult and chaos of the 2016 election cycle, there emerges a painfully clear lesson: the Republican Party is a house divided against itself. For proof of this, consider only that 17 candidates vied for the Party nomination—enough to warrant “secondary debates”—with 12 of them having enough support to participate in at least […]

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The Revenant Republicans

/April 7, 2017

In August 1992, The New Republic published an article, titled “The End of Conservatism”, which purported to outline how the conservative movement was coming to an end due to party infighting. Although the Republicans lost the presidential election that year, they scored a resounding win in the midterm elections of 1994. Nineteen years later—following the […]

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Labor, Virtue, and the Good Life

/April 7, 2017

Many scholars find that today, people value labor and career as central to one’s life and identity more so than they have in the past. Hannah Arendt diagnosed the contemporary world in 1958 as made up of “societies of laborers and jobholders” whose lives largely revolve around labor that provides the necessities of life. Andrew […]

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The Plight of Moderates in the Republican Party

/February 15, 2017

Editor’s Note: This article was written for the Princeton Tory Freshman Contest in November. Never in the history of contemporary American politics has a group been as loved and loathed simultaneously as the moderate at this present time. When candidates run for office, they fight for moderates’ votes in the general election. On the other hand, […]

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Top 10 Logical Fallacies of Roe

/February 15, 2017

On January 22, 1973 the Supreme Court struck down all the abortion laws of this nation. The decision that loosed the evil of abortion unto the unborn is remarkable not for its insight in the principles of law but for its disavowal of them. The Court played connect-the-dots with the Constitution and traced out a […]

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Publisher’s Letter

/February 15, 2017

Greetings, Tories! This is my last issue as Publisher of the Tory, and it’s been a bittersweet issue to put together, as I put the final touches on it now. I have been honored to be your Publisher over the last year, and I am looking forward to serving under our next Publisher – Paul […]

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Points and Punts

/February 15, 2017

President Eisgruber recently came out against Princeton being a “sanctuary campus” for illegal immigrants, saying “this concept has no basis in law.” However, Eisgruber affirmed the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which allows those to the United States who illegally entered the country as minors to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred […]

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