America has an Ivy League problem. With each day comes a new ridiculous headline or opinion poll showing how Ivy League students, alumni, and administrators are growing increasingly out of touch with common sense. This growing divergence, coupled with the disproportionate influence of Ivy League graduates in the public sphere, has sparked new levels of […]
The Princeton Tory is excited to launch a “Letters” section this semester. For the first time, the Tory asked members of the student body for short responses to a selected question. The first such question was “Should religious beliefs shape policy?” Students were free to approach this question from a personal, theoretical, legal, historical, or […]
In the year since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center, the Left has continually decried the current Supreme Court as a right-leaning activist body grasping for power in order to imperil basic rights. Countless conservative commentators have responded by pointing out the irony of defining “power-hungry activism” as “sending power back to the states” and […]
On Friday, November 10th, I had the honor of attending Bari Weiss’s lecture at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention. The lecture was given in honor of Barbara K. Olson, a conservative legal commentator who was murdered by Al-Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. Weiss, former New York Times opinion editor and founder of The Free Press, […]
When Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy began rapping Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” during the Iowa State Fair, many were rightfully confused. Why would a highly accomplished individual who seeks to occupy the highest office in the land do something so over-the-top? The answer is that Ramaswamy understands the importance of connecting conservative values to likable people. […]
I am conflicted about how to think of the future. I am first drawn to the opinion of the optimist, charmed by John Stuart Mill’s assessment that “our general tendency is that towards a better and happier state.” This is a view that speaks of our current participation in an upward arc of modern civilization, […]
The past month has been one of immense reckoning for the Princeton University community. Hamas’ barbaric rampage against Jewish civilians on October 7 (now referred to in Israel as “Black Shabbat”) has had a devastating effect on Jewish students – upon the feeling of security that fortifies both secular and observant students’ identities at this […]
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to […]
President Eisgruber has flagrantly failed his own stated standards of conduct – and abandoned his duties to the Princeton community. He refuses to prevent publication of multiple statements on University websites that falsely defame the reputation of John Witherspoon, Princeton’s indispensable early president and a founder of the United States. Moreover, these defamations’ profound misdirection […]
The following text is adapted from remarks that Professor George delivered at a conference on antisemitism hosted by the Philos Project and the Franciscan University of Steubenville. We are, of course, meeting in the wake of the horrific attacks by Hamas terrorists on innocent Israeli Jews and others in Israel. The brutal murders, rapes, […]
This reflection was written shortly after editor Ben Woodard ’25 participated in a trip to Israel hosted by the Tory in January 2023. Given the horrific events of the past two weeks, he felt that it was important to share his reflection to spread awareness about the reality on the ground in Israel as he […]
This past Sunday marked the 277th anniversary of Princeton’s founding. It should have been a day full of excitement, a day of celebration and reaffirmation of the value of an American liberal arts education. Sadly, the past few weeks have offered no occasion for celebration. In the wake of Hamas’ evil attacks on Israeli civilians, […]
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