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Toni Alimi and Robert Marsland

Emergency Contraception: Exposing Princeton’s Institutional Involvement in Reproductive Politics

/February 15, 2017

This article was originally published December 2009 If one were to type the phrase “emergency contraception” into the Google search bar, one would expect to find among the first results Planned Parenthood, or some other “reproductive health” organization. It would come as quite a surprise, then, to learn that the very top result, ahead of […]

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Robert P. George receives AEI’s Irving Kristol Award

/December 1, 2016

Professor Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, was awarded the Irving Kristol Award at the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Annual Dinner held at the National Building Museum on September 28. The Irving Kristol Award was established in honor of AEI senior fellow Irving Kristol. Replacing the Francis Boyer Award first given […]

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Visions of Sex

/December 1, 2016

Anal. Orgasm. G-spot. Recently you may have seen these bright posters spring up on campus, advertising events hosted by the Women’s Center. One of the highlights of that week was the guest lecture series by Ellen Heed, who spoke on three consecutive days about self-pleasure, human genitalia, and “all of life’s erotic possibilities.” Sexual pleasure […]

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Points and Punts

/December 1, 2016

      The Princeton Tory would like to congratulate the University of Pennsylvania on the election of Donald Trump, who graduated from Wharton in 1968. President-elect Trump will be the first Penn graduate to serve as president since William Henry Harrison. Members of the Penn community are no doubt elated to see one of their own enter […]

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Check your Privilege

/December 1, 2016

Dear liberal college students, You are understandably angry about the bigoted demagogue’s stunning electoral defeat of the pathological liar. You believe that your elected leaders are indifferent to your concerns and neither care about nor represent people like you. You have suddenly and shockingly been swept from power; your opposition controls Congress, the presidency, the […]

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Conservatism at Princeton

/December 1, 2016

For many conservative students—and particularly for conservative freshmen taking their first steps onto campus—philosophical discussion and political activity in the world of higher education can seem stifling. There is an undeniable predominance of liberalism, both in the classroom and in casual dialogue, which often spills over into students’ extracurricular life. Many of the largest and […]

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The Significance of Sexual Ethics

/September 26, 2016

A trolley is rumbling down the tracks, about to barrel into a crowd of people. You hesitate, hand on a lever which will divert the trolley onto a track with a single person. As the train looms closer, you oscillate between action and inaction, between utilitarianism and deontology, between macabre fascination and bored annoyance at […]

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The Modern Day Abolitionist

/September 26, 2016

O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? Written in the midst of America’s triumph in the War of 1812, the famous question penned by Francis Scott Key in the 1814 anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, has since earned America the nickname the […]

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