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2016 December Issue

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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