The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. “Beware of the left-wing mob.” It’s an oft-repeated slogan among proponents of free speech on college campuses around the country and certainly at Princeton. The Princeton Open Campus Coalition (POCC), the organization dedicated to the promotion of free speech on this campus, […]
On a recent trip home, a family friend asked me how I maintain my conservative beliefs in an aggressively progressive environment. In that moment, I gave him the boilerplate answer. But on further reflection, I realized that I owed it to him – and myself – to dig deeper. I hope he will allow this […]
Occurrences like Terrace Club sending an email explicitly mocking a protestant religious event or a prominent Princeton alumna repeatedly tweeting unfounded accusations that Catholic Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barett is in a cult happen far too often to be dismissed as random incidents. They indicate that many Princetonians graduate as religious illiterates – unfamiliar with […]
The Princeton Progressive, Princeton’s leftist political publication, has gone dormant. Why? Because The Daily Princetonian has stolen its mantle. Consider the Prince’s treatment of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)-aligned Referendum No. 3. According to the Prince’s reporting, a contested interpretation of a USG constitutional rule is a matter of fact – a decision that […]
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. As leaders of an objection regarding USG’s management of Referendum No. 3, we strongly and unqualifiedly disavow those who have harassed the Chief Elections Manager or alleged that he operated in bad faith. His was a simple and honest mistake––the kind we […]
On April 6, I attended the “Caterpillar Referendum Teach-In” event hosted by Princeton Committee on Palestine (PCP) and Students for Prison Education, Abolition, and Reform (SPEAR). As a Jew, I was appalled. Appalled by the false claims. Appalled by the proclamation of “From the river to the sea” (an explicit call to erase the only […]
Image courtesy of International Peace Institute If there is one state that bears responsibility for an outsized share of suffering and instability in the Middle East, it is Iran. An autocracy that subsidizes an alarming portfolio of regional terrorism, the Islamic Republic is hostile to the U.S. and poses grave threats to Israel, other […]
Image courtesy of Princeton University The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. After de jure limitations on free speech on college campuses spurred corrective policies, University administrators and advocates of free speech must now construct protections against de facto limitations. My experience at Princeton hosting conservative intellectuals has […]
Image courtesy of ABC News The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Although Princeton has tried in recent years to distance itself from Woodrow Wilson, his approach to education and his philosophy of global responsibility remain cornerstones in the intellectual foundations of this university. Wilson’s foreign policy is […]
Image courtesy of the South China Morning Post The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In 1944, during WWII, Allied nations met at the Bretton Woods Resort in snowy New Hampshire to discuss how to revamp the global financial system once Nazi Germany was inevitably defeated. The International […]
Image courtesy of Wikipedia The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In October 2021, 198 Princeton professors signed a letter denouncing the Department of Justice’s China Initiative. Created during the Trump administration, the initiative was directed towards “identifying and prosecuting those engaged in trade secret theft, hacking, and […]
Image courtesy of Rnla.com The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Dear Tories, As Princetonians, we are of the university. The language of theory and high-flown academic parlance ought to be native to us. Yet, I challenge critical race theory or CRT. What does it mean, as […]
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