This article was originally published December 2009 If one were to type the phrase “emergency contraception” into the Google search bar, one would expect to find among the first results Planned Parenthood, or some other “reproductive health” organization. It would come as quite a surprise, then, to learn that the very top result, ahead of […]
Editor’s note: A version of this essay won the George S. and Stella M. Knight Essay Contest of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in 2015, and is awaiting publication in The SAR Magazine in Spring 2017. The results of the 2016 presidential election were bittersweet for many conservatives, and a […]
Editor’s Note: This article was written for the Princeton Tory Freshman Contest in November. “Why does the Supreme Court normally have an odd number of justices?” “I don’t know… why?” “Because if it had an even number of justices then it would be a normal court!” Sure – it’s an absolutely terrible joke, but […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For many conservatives, this election has been a Pyrrhic victory. Reading the publisher’s letter by Joel Alicea ’10 after Obama ascended to the Oval Office in 2008, I was struck by some of the lines he used in his article in reference to Obama that refer equally well to our current situation. See below for […]
In light of the Republican takeover of the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives this year, the Affordable Care Act has resurfaced in the news as one of the top targets for GOP leadership to repeal and replace. In this piece from the archives, alumnus Evan Draim ‘16 examines the flaws of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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