In the popular imagination and in that of its students, is about progress. Technological innovation and new ideas are the coins of the realm. Students come here to meet new people and move beyond old attachments and passively accept the near-universal advice that college is a time to try new things and escape old identities. […]
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that laws regulating abortion belong to individual states in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the University released a statement disapproving of the Court’s decision and supporting abortion as an “essential and fundamental right.” The statement was published in an email by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion […]
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. “We shall call those studies liberal which are worthy of a free man; those studies by which we attain and practise virtue and wisdom; that education which calls forth, trains, and develops those highest gifts of body and of mind, and which […]
A 2014 article entitled Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League by William Deresiewicz (an Ivy grad and faculty member) argued that “[o]ur system of elite education manufactures young people who are . . . great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it.” Students at “prestigious institutions,” it claimed, are always concerned […]
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. “Beware of the left-wing mob.” It’s an oft-repeated slogan among proponents of free speech on college campuses around the country and certainly at Princeton. The Princeton Open Campus Coalition (POCC), the organization dedicated to the promotion of free speech on this campus, […]
On a recent trip home, a family friend asked me how I maintain my conservative beliefs in an aggressively progressive environment. In that moment, I gave him the boilerplate answer. But on further reflection, I realized that I owed it to him – and myself – to dig deeper. I hope he will allow this […]
Occurrences like Terrace Club sending an email explicitly mocking a protestant religious event or a prominent Princeton alumna repeatedly tweeting unfounded accusations that Catholic Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barett is in a cult happen far too often to be dismissed as random incidents. They indicate that many Princetonians graduate as religious illiterates – unfamiliar with […]
Image courtesy of Princeton University The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. After de jure limitations on free speech on college campuses spurred corrective policies, University administrators and advocates of free speech must now construct protections against de facto limitations. My experience at Princeton hosting conservative intellectuals has […]
Image courtesy of the Daily Montanan The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Critical Race Theory (CRT), which makes race the prism through which one analyzes every aspect of American life, has become increasingly pervasive in American culture, especially in academic curriculum. The core tenet of CRT maintains […]
Image courtesy of Ms. Magazine The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. “I’ll be honest. I’ve only heard the narrative and speculation around it. I don’t quite know what it is,” Ahmad Higazy ‘23 told The Tory when asked to explain Critical Race Theory (CRT). Critical Race Theory […]
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Critical Race Theory (CRT) promotes the idea that we should reexamine the role of race in American history and the current structures of power. There is no denying that racism has been a pernicious agent throughout human history and painfully remains so to […]
Image Courtesy of Fox News Tory contributor Myles McKnight ’23 was invited on Fox News and Fox Business to share his thoughts on the University’s restrictions related to COVID-19 and the Omicron variant. “The university [has] these requirements in light of surging COVID cases in the New Jersey and New York area. Some of […]
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