In a quote often attributed to Martin Luther, the 16th-century reformer argues that “the Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.” To him, quality work is more reflective of our Creator than a cheap nod to the […]
“We are not gonna let this state be overrun by woke ideology,” Ron DeSantis declared in his gubernatorial victory speech last year. “We will fight the woke in the businesses, we will fight the woke in government agencies, we will fight the woke in our schools. We will never ever surrender to the woke agenda. […]
On Wednesday, April 19th, Princeton’s Pace Center for Civic Engagement and the Carl A. Field Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding hosted an event entitled “Creating a Pleasure Practice with The Fat Sex Therapist,” featuring Sonalee Rashatwar. This was not Rashatwar’s first engagement at Princeton. In 2020, Rashatwar gave two talks at the University: “Decolonizing […]
From March 11-16, 2023, Princeton University students will travel to George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, MN, as part of an “immersive learning opportunity” hosted by the Office of Religious Life (ORL). There, the trip participants will study “the sacred work of memorial preservation and protest” while engaging with community leaders to better understand their […]
On February 10th, The Daily Princetonian published its second ever annual Diversity, Equity, Belonging, and Inclusion Report. The report follows the Prince’s first ever Diversity Report published last year. Less than 5 percent of the Prince staff reported itself as conservative, similar to less than 3 percent in 2022. According to The Daily Princetonian’s Frosh […]
Last semester, I took an African American Studies Class called “The Philosophy of Race.” I’m glad I took the class – it offered me a new perspective and insight into the enslavement of black people in the United States and the current condition of black Americans. I read the best works of black literary […]
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the […]
On November 16, 2022, Princeton’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) approved a referendum that seeks to convert the majority of residential campus restrooms to be gender-neutral. The referendum argues that this move will make residential campus restrooms more “safe, more accessible for all students, and affirmative of the rights of transgender and gender non-conforming students on […]
On October 4, 2022, Alize Roberson, the Residential Life Coordinator (RLC) of Forbes, one of Princeton’s residential colleges, announced the commencement of bi-weekly study breaks titled “Melanin Mondays.” Roberson is one of the University’s newly hired Residential Life Coordinators (RLCs), whose appointments were announced on August 26, 2022 by the Office of the Dean of […]
Princeton University will offer a course titled “Black + Queer in Leather: Black Leather/BDSM Material Culture” in the Spring 2023 semester. The course will study how Black Queer BDSM material culture resists contextualization in relationship to biographical narratives. “Black + Queer in Leather” will be taught by Tiona Nekkia McClodden, a Princeton […]
Image courtesy of Morning Consult Recently, abortion retook center stage in the American political landscape with the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But most of the dialogue that swept the country was focused less on the constitutionality of a woman’s right to have an abortion and more on the morality of abortion generally. Too […]
Lincoln once said that “we cannot escape history.” For that reason, I understand the instinct to delve into the imperfections of our Constitution and national past and recognize that our failings are part of our story just as much as our triumphs are. But to focus solely on imperfections is a form of the historical […]
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