“We are not gonna let this state be overrun by woke ideology,” Ron DeSantis declared in his gubernatorial victory speech last year. “We will fight the woke in the businesses, we will fight the woke in government agencies, we will fight the woke in our schools. We will never ever surrender to the woke agenda. […]
The Problem of Viewing States as “Battlegrounds” When my home city of Atlanta was founded in 1837, it served as a railroad terminus for the Western & Atlantic railroad, linking the infant city to Chattanooga, Tennessee. What started as a small train hub quickly grew into one of the most influential cities in the South. […]
Conservatives should make more substantive moral arguments in policy debates. Broken windows policing says, in brief, that police ought to focus on basic issues of public order and cleanliness to establish a community culture inhospitable to serious crime. The theory, originated by the neoconservative James Q. Wilson in 1982, was extremely influential in the crime […]
“Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?” – W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America (1935) In 2001, Princeton […]
For decades, left-wing environmentalists have warned against the dangers of climate change, the “existential threat” that must be dealt with immediately in order to avoid a cataclysm of epic proportions. In 1989, a senior U.N official argued that “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the […]
By Ishmael son of Nethaniah The following content is satire. See here for the Daily Princetonian piece it parodies. The first time that I ever received any serious reprimand for misbehavior in school was in the seventh grade. At the suburban midwestern Jewish Day School I attended from ages 8 to 14, we […]
Zachariah Sippy ’23 argued in a recent op-ed that the Princeton Office of Religious Life’s (ORL) decision to include Yom Haatzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) and Yom Hazikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day) on a list of religious holidays is exclusionary to “non- and anti-Zionist” Jewish students. Sippy spills a lot of ink detailing the litany of political […]
It was a mistake for the Department of English to invite Mohammed El-Kurd, a deeply unserious “influencer” and plain antisemite, to campus. It was equally a mistake for some students to call on the Department to condemn its own event. In response to that call, Jeff Dolven, Acting Chair of the English Department, set out […]
Last semester, I took an African American Studies Class called “The Philosophy of Race.” I’m glad I took the class – it offered me a new perspective and insight into the enslavement of black people in the United States and the current condition of black Americans. I read the best works of black literary […]
The GOP envisions itself as staunch supporters of America in all of its beauty. In 2020, former president Trump ordered that public architecture imitate classical styles in order to “inspire the human spirit” and “ennoble the United States.” This is a definite step in the right direction, and should be applauded by anyone who appreciates […]
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the […]
Princeton claims it is “committed to free and open inquiry in all matters” and promises to promote “a lively and fearless freedom of debate and deliberation,” according to the University’s Rights, Rules, and Responsibilities. The University is not living up to these high ideals. A recent survey of conservative students on campus conducted by the […]
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