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 […]
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 […]
Sitting on a boulder flanked by acacias of the Kenyan savannah, I and a group of other research fellows watched the sun set as we discussed the topic of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Some of the fellows were denouncing the premise of the fair, which was held in honor of the 400th anniversary of […]
November 20, 2014 saw the birth of a two-year legal storm that would rage its way to the Supreme Court. That was the day President Barack Obama issued an executive action called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, or DAPA. Like the name suggests, DAPA aimed to grant deferred action — […]
Greetings, Tory reader! On behalf of the Tory staff, I am excited to welcome the class of 2020 to Princeton! William F. Buckley, Jr. once said that liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. It’s among the […]
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