Greetings and Welcome, Class of 2018! As I begin this letter, I fear that I will choke on all the standard welcome-to-campus cliches in this opening paragraph. To avoid platitudinal suffocation, let it suffice to say that we’re all glad you’re here, we look forward to meeting you, and, moreover, we hope that you will […]
Dear fellow conservatives: as your parents, cousins, teachers, and priests have warned you (or, if you’re hiding in the closet from all of these, as you’ve quietly and hesitatingly admitted to yourself), you are about to enter a trying, if exhilarating, four years. Every undergraduate’s views here are developing, changing, expanding, and being challenged in […]
During the first week of my summer in Washington, D.C., I arranged to meet up with a friend who had recently been hired at a conservative-leaning think tank. I was interning for a national political party, and he was full of advice on what I should do during my ten weeks in D.C. After catching […]
Few things come to mind with the mention of Grover Cleveland. Some recall an incongruous combination of a city in Ohio and a blue muppet on Sesame Street. Others remember the U.S. President from the nineteenth century, and the Jeopardy champions among these remember that he was, in fact, both our twenty-second and twenty-fourth executive. […]
It constantly struck me in my own freshman year that this was the fitting time for feats of raucousness, that drunkenness and intemperate passion were habits proper to youth or at least could be winked at on account of immaturity. As a young man they were almost not faults so much as nature itself, and […]
In the days after the Supreme Court’s controversial 5–4 ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, everyone was an expert, and, naturally, everyone had an opinion. As an intern for the American Religious Freedom Program this summer, I spent hours tracking social media responses to the ruling, and, for the most part, I was thoroughly unsurprised […]
On March 29, 2014, Princeton College Republicans hosted the annual convention for the New Jersey College Republican Federation, an organization of about a dozen CR chapters in universities across the state. Numerous elected officials arrived at Princeton’s campus for the occasion, including Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno, Congressman Leonard Lance, and Assemblywoman Donna Simon. In addition, […]
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