When I first stepped onto Princeton’s campus, I was surprised by what appeared to be a significant lack of wokeness. Throughout my childhood, I had been told by my conservative friends, family, and the media that the modern university is the bastion of progressive indoctrination. And while our University’s progressive bias is certainly evident, the […]
Outspoken conservatism puts a target on your back; hold any other views, and you are free to skirt accepted norms and University regulations as you please. That is what I discovered through a dive into a case of sexual assault and academic fraud by a Princeton employee in the early 2000s. In 2006, Princeton failed […]
In October and November of 2018, all you heard about was the midterm elections. Every social media feed was flooded with reminders to vote. Late night talk shows exhorted viewers to get to the polls. Even Borat came back to haunt our Republic on the eve of voting. Midterm elections are again upon us, four […]
Image courtesy of UCA News Twelve years ago, the Princeton Tory published an opinion piece by Toni Alimi ’13 entitled “Princeton, Religion, and Politics — The Politics of Catholics and Protestants on Campus.” Alimi’s piece centered on the observation that Catholics were seriously overrepresented in Princeton’s conservative organizations in comparison to other non-Catholic Christians. […]
Image courtesy of Morning Consult Recently, abortion retook center stage in the American political landscape with the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But most of the dialogue that swept the country was focused less on the constitutionality of a woman’s right to have an abortion and more on the morality of abortion generally. Too […]
This year’s orientation programming for the Class of 2026 featured a diversity and inclusion program that shocked me. This reaction was due not to the event’s topic or who the student speakers were but to the dangerous implications of adopting the mentality that some of them seemed to be proposing: equating one’s entire identity to […]
Lincoln once said that “we cannot escape history.” For that reason, I understand the instinct to delve into the imperfections of our Constitution and national past and recognize that our failings are part of our story just as much as our triumphs are. But to focus solely on imperfections is a form of the historical […]
In the popular imagination and in that of its students, is about progress. Technological innovation and new ideas are the coins of the realm. Students come here to meet new people and move beyond old attachments and passively accept the near-universal advice that college is a time to try new things and escape old identities. […]
Stanford philosopher Rene Girard theorized that communities are formed through a process of scapegoating. To solve intragroup conflict, people will assign exclusive blame to a single individual, the scapegoat, whom they unite to rally against. Though the scapegoat does not deserve his punishment, the process unites people to form a community, and its associated story […]
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In my capacity as a reporter for The Princeton Tory, I covered the recent Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) aligned referendum that came before the student body for a vote. Eric Periman ‘24, President of the Princeton Committee on Palestine (PCP), authored the […]
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. “We shall call those studies liberal which are worthy of a free man; those studies by which we attain and practise virtue and wisdom; that education which calls forth, trains, and develops those highest gifts of body and of mind, and which […]
A 2014 article entitled Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League by William Deresiewicz (an Ivy grad and faculty member) argued that “[o]ur system of elite education manufactures young people who are . . . great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it.” Students at “prestigious institutions,” it claimed, are always concerned […]
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