Dear Tories,
It hasn’t been very long since I last addressed you. At the beginning of last month, in my introductory note, I provided you with an overview of changes I have effected when it comes to content. No rest is to be had however. Joaquim and I have put a premium on bold ideas and institutional growth. It is my pleasure to introduce another opinion column, Ask Anscombe, which marks the Tory’s first foray into lifestyle and relationship advice.
The column falls under the purview of the Anscombe Society, a student-run Princeton organization dedicated to promoting a traditional view of family, marriage, and sexual ethics. All questions will be answered by the Society’s leadership in consultation with its members.
The society itself is named after Elizabeth Anscombe, who was a student and literary executor of Wittgenstein and was considered by many to be the greatest analytic philosopher of the 20th century. She was dedicated to advancing philosophical thought in the Catholic tradition just as much as she was devoted to her husband and seven children.
If there is one thing that Ask Anscombe is concerned with, it is an honest search for the truth about love, a conception of love which is to inform responsible choices, and which leads to the greater good and happiness of all Princeton students.
It is here that I ought to stop and affirm the Tory’s commitment to diversity of thought as a governing value. After all, the conservative movement is no monolith. The Tory is not synonymous with the Anscombe Society and it is not synonymous with College Republicans, Princeton Pro-Life, or the Cliosophic Party. Though these groups and their members often find expression on the pages of the Tory, not one of them on their own fully captures the Tory’s ethos.
The Tory is and always will be in a state of constant redefinition. However, we are united in a number of ways. Tories past, present, and future are unified in their inclination towards moderation, towards standing athwart history as it progresses too quickly, yelling stop. We’ve also had an impulse towards protecting that Burkean “eternal society,” which values the great partnership between the dead, the living, and those yet to be born.
To return to the matter at hand, if you’d like to ask a question about love, sex, relationships or anything of that type, email the Ask Anscombe team at . Should you wish to stay anonymous, you can submit through this form on the Tory’s website. Joaquim and I cannot wait to see how this column’s introduction will shape campus conversation.
Until next time,
Jeff Zymeri ’20
Editor-in-Chief
The Princeton Tory
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