By Bobby Marsland ‘11 The past few months have seen a whirlwind of activity and controversy on the climate change front. In November, journalists[CC1] hacked into the email accounts of prominent climate scientists at the University of East Anglia in Britain, finding messages discussing different ways to hide features in the data that disagreed with […]
By Matthew Sanyour ‘11 Princeton’s fair-trade banana program is the latest product of a movement that has been assuaging the troubled consciences of guilty Westerners for the last half-century or so, with increasing visibility and intensity since the 1990s. The fundamental assumption of the fair-trade movement is that developing economies merit greater payment for their […]
By David Peterson ’12 How should conservatives think about economics? For most conservatives today, this question has been settled almost definitively: capitalism and the free market provide the ideal system. However, as I shall attempt to show, such a system not only violates justice generally, but also undermines the traditional social values that conservatism upholds. […]
In a moment of inspired sensitivity, Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan had this to say about Hurricane Katrina’s long-term effects on New Orleans: “This is a tough thing to say, but let me be really honest. I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina. The education […]
By Katie Fletcher ’10 On January 22nd—the 27th anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision—Princeton Pro-Life sent a delegation of students to participate in the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. The estimated 200,000 protesters were not just holdovers nostalgic for the days before Roe, but they also included many young people who […]
By Brandon McGinley ’10 Back in November 2008, in my second article for the last pages of the Tory, I wrote of the “blank slate” with which American conservatism was presented after the election of Barack Obama. As for how best to take advantage of this opportunity, I spoke only in the broadest language: “we […]
By Tiernan Kane ‘11 The Triangle muses sing that “Princeton is like an old-folks home,” which seems true in many respects. But in at least one respect—center-right political activism—this comparison rings false. For the “old folks” who inhabit old-folks homes are part of the larger political class known as “elderly voters,” many of whom comprise […]
By Rob Day ’10 This marks my last issue as publisher, and accordingly my last “Publisher’s Letter.” I have thought quite a bit about what sort of parting remarks I’d like to make, and it seems appropriate to end with some final reflections on a topic I have often discussed in this column – namely, […]
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