Photo Credit: Michael Candelori/Flickr The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In the mid-20th century, a small group of political activists forged a heterogeneous coalition to support the Republican Party and elect Ronald Reagan as President, and they shaped the American right for two generations. Today, a nascent group of […]
Princeton Philosophy Department, Photo Credit: WikiMedia Commons The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. A recent open letter by the Princeton University faculty has provoked concerns, yet again, that institutions may be encroaching against freedom of thought and expression in their efforts to protect those who are marginalized by racism. […]
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In a recent op-ed published in the Daily Princetonian, Dylan Galt disapproves of current comparisons to communist regimes. He has valid reasons: he was raised in communist China. My story is similar. I don’t want to employ identity politics […]
Pictured: UC Berkeley – Sproul Hall, Photo Credit: Wally Gobetz The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. There is deep irony underlying today’s progressive movement. While progressives claim to fight systemic racism and represent society’s most vulnerable, their policies achieve exactly what they claim to find so morally […]
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Recently the editorial board of the Daily Princetonian published an opinion article signed by the entire editorial board advocating for the severing of ties with local municipal law enforcement including the Princeton Police Department (PPD) and to cease utilizing sworn police officers […]
Picture Credit: Monica Elizabeth, WikiMedia The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. A recent Nassau Weekly article, “Access For All: A Reflection on Reproductive Rights at Princeton,” by a member of Princeton Students for Reproductive Justice (PSRJ), explains the club’s proposal to install vending machines that would offer […]
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. I’m a woman, and I’m a conservative. I believe in the Second Amendment rights promised to all Americans because my ancestors fled from countries where an unarmed citizenry was doomed to the darkness of oppression. Yet when the Pulse nightclub shooting rocked my […]
Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. There is immense tension between nature and mankind. It is increasingly difficult to maintain the delicate balance of appreciating the world’s natural wonders and harnessing their power. In 1908, Congress voted to approve Hetch Hetchy, a dam […]
Photo Source: John Phelan, Wikimedia Commons The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. It was not supposed to end this way. Just a short time ago, I was looking forward to finishing midterms, relaxing on spring break, and enjoying my last few months on campus. As a student […]
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. All ideologies derive from certain principles which others do not accept; otherwise they would not be ideologies, but patently obvious truths, accessible and accepted by all. Behind the controversy about environmental policy lies an ideological divide which will prevent further discourse if we […]
Credit: AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. This past February, the Daily Princetonian printed an opinion article written by columnist Braden Flax which assessed the $10 billion donation Jeff Bezos recently donated to fight climate change. Flax was left unsatisfied. His argument to reach […]
Photo Credit: Fossil Free UC The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. It would be tempting to dismiss the Fossil Fuel Divestment movement at Princeton as just the latest example of environmental tokenism to sweep Princeton, but that would miss the mark. Paper straws and canned drinking water are […]
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