Across the country, students are occupying university campuses and decrying their own schools. Chaos has unfolded at numerous universities. As authorities attempt to control the protest, criticism has mounted over perceived excessive force. The upcoming Democratic Party Convention in Chicago promises to be marked by radical demonstrations. The year was 1968. In 2024, we are […]
Last fall, I had the pleasure of taking retiring Professor William C. Jordan’s final offering of HIS 367, “English Constitutional History,” a staple of Princeton’s history curriculum that has been offered for over a century. The class met in a first floor lecture room in McCosh Hall, right behind the spot where anti-Israel protestors have […]
For years, celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim was just that: a celebration. As a kid, I dressed up in all manners of costumes, from a purple Crayola crayon to a cheerleader from one of my favorite childhood television shows; I attended carnivals put on by my school and synagogue; I gathered with my family, […]
Prior to January 25, 2024, Princeton University’s campus was infested with “Personal Electric Vehicles” (PEVs) and their all-too-often self-indulgent owners who regularly bedeviled pedestrian students and visitors alike. On August 18, 2023, Princeton’s Environmental Safety and Risk Management Committee (ESRM) sent a campus-wide email announcing a policy update regarding PEVs. It cited safety concerns to […]
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 […]
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