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History and Potential of the Protest Vote | ESSAY

/November 5, 2020

Ross Perot 1992 run for president spoiled George HW Bush’s reelection. Photo Credit: AP The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. The spirit of protest is natural to the American ethos. When unleashed, it has reaped catastrophic harm and emboldened the government to further intervene in our lives. When employed […]

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Conservative Students Weigh in on the 2020 Presidential Election

and /October 29, 2020

Photo Credit: Saul Loeb // AFP via Getty Imagines   I’m a conservative — but should I vote for Donald Trump? In the final days leading up to a historic presidential election, many conservative Princeton students have found themselves in a quandary; torn between supporting President Donald J. Trump, the 74-year-old controversial incumbent Republican firebrand, […]

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Can We Agree To Disagree: The Polarization Tearing Princeton’s Online Campus Apart | NEWS

and /October 8, 2020

Princeton’s campus sits empty. (Photo Credit: Flickr/Ken Lund) Editor’s Note: In order to respect our sources’ anonymity, The Tory has changed the names of multiple interviewees.    “Can we agree to disagree?” After months of painful silence, Daniel, a current Princeton student, finally confessed the truth to a friend: he planned to vote for Donald […]

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In Defense of Academic Freedom: Princeton Open Campus Coalition’s Letter to President Eisgruber | STATEMENT

/June 30, 2020

Dear President Eisgruber, We the undersigned undergraduate students of Princeton University write on behalf of the Princeton Open Campus Coalition, founded in 2015 to advocate for the university’s robust protection of important values such as free speech, free thought, and bold and fearless truth-seeking. We approach you now because we find that the events of […]

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Representative Jim Hagedorn on the Conservative Response to Coronavirus

/May 27, 2020

On Friday May 8, 2020, The Princeton Tory joined with Princeton College Republicans and the Cliosophic Party for a conversation with Representative Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), member of the House Committees on Agriculture and Small Businesses, to discuss his current political outlook, the conservative response to coronavirus, and his thoughts on rebuilding the American economy. The attached […]

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Q&A with Energy Expert Mark Mills

/March 25, 2020

Credit: The Manhattan Institute   An Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, energy expert Mark Mills answered The Princeton Tory‘s questions on energy policy in 2020 and beyond. Is Climate Change as bad as the media makes it out to be? Should we be looking towards politicians for guidance on the severity of the issue? None […]

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Publisher’s Note: Take Courage!

/January 3, 2020

Dear Tories, It’s my absolute pleasure to usher this publication into another decade. Throughout the past thirty-five years, Princeton students have decided over and over again to invest countless hours into the Tory. The collective willpower of these Princetonians has kept this magazine going longer than anyone could have imagined. The Tory has even been […]

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U. Students Attend Supreme Court Oral Arguments with the James Madison Program

/December 26, 2019

Courtesy of Ch’nel Duke WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, Dec. 9, University students affiliated with the James Madison Program (JMP) traveled to the capitol to listen to the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr and Thryv, Inc v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP. The students attended as guests of Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch.  “The James […]

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In Lecture, U. Emeritus Professor Maurizio Viroli Examines the Prophetic Voices of Italy’s Unification

/December 19, 2019

Courtesy of Princeton University. “Are great political struggles ever sustained without prophets?” asked Professor Emeritus of Politics Maurizio Viroli in a Dec. 9 lecture. The talk, co-sponsored by the James Madison Program and the Program in Italian Studies, was centered on Italy’s unification (Risorgimento), and the “voices which urged Italians to emancipate themselves from their […]

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Publisher’s Note: Western Civilization Revisited

/November 22, 2019

Dear Tories, In the summer of 2017, I made the decision to concentrate in Classics. And I owe it all to Horace. The Latin poet is perhaps best known for his coinage of that oh-so popular exhortation: carpe diem. However, in reading him in the original, he did for me what Shakespeare has done for many of my peers. […]

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Shapiro Prize Winners Snub Eating Clubs

/November 14, 2019

Find two more graphics below. Courtesy of Liam O’Connor.  Almost 60 percent of Shapiro Prize recipients from the Classes of 2019 and 2020 weren’t members of an eating club, a Tory investigation can reveal. Only 41 percent of upperclassmen overall forgo “The Street.” Winners are 40 percent more likely than their peers to be on […]

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