When people saw the viral heartbreaking image of the drowned body of a young Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach in September, the knee-jerk reaction was to jump to the conclusion that we had an immediate moral obligation to take in refugees from the Syrian civil war. And without a doubt, the refugee […]
Editor’s note—The author of this piece has been granted anonymity due to her belief that she is revealing information that she would rather not reveal to CPS. She is a junior and can be reached at . “If it’s not migraines,” she said in April, looking up from her hasty sketch of circles and arrows, […]
Julian E. Zelizer is Malcolm Stevenson Forbse, Class of 1941, Professor of History and Public Affairs. He has been instrumental in reviving the academic field of American political history. His publications include Jimmy Carter, Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, and Governing America: The Revival of Political History. He is currently teaching The United States […]
As undergraduate students walk through the campus of an unnamed school in New Haven, Connecticut or through the corridors of another unnamed school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is common for them to run into students from the adjoining law school. Such interaction at Princeton University is, however, not possible. Many have asked the question: where […]
In his encyclical Centesimus Annus, Pope John Paul II wrote, “A person who is deprived of something he can call ‘his own’ and of the possibility of earning a living through his own initiative, comes to depend on the social machine and on those who control it. This makes it much more difficult for him […]
The Black Justice League has denounced Woodrow Wilson’s unquestionable racism and claims that that by “fail[ing] to stand up against or acknowledge the wrongdoings of a man who proudly branded himself a racist,” Princeton continues “to subjugate, oppress and ignore the existence of [its] students of color.” This accusation is entirely unwarranted. Racial oppression in […]
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