The Leading Princeton Publication of Conservative Thought

2017 April Issue

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 […]

Continue Reading →

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— […]

Continue Reading →

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 […]

Continue Reading →

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 […]

Continue Reading →

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 […]

Continue Reading →