The recent uproars at the University of Missouri and Yale have been bludgeoned to death with analysis, roundly criticized by publications from the Atlantic to the Wall Street Journal and everyone in between. And rightly so: what we’ve seen in Columbia and New Haven has been nothing short of lunacy: protests spawned from wisps of […]
To phrase things delicately, the Supreme Court’s recent decisions in King v. Burwell and Obergefell v. Hodges are unequivocally horrendous. Legal textualists and political conservatives will remember these majority opinions as among the worst of the twenty-first century. While Kelo v. New London and NFIB v. Sebelius were equally despicable, these cases at least were […]
Friends of democracy and the rule of law will remember King v. Burwell as one of the worst cases in recent memory. However, every cloud does indeed have its silver lining, today taking the form of a devastating dissent by Justice Antonin Scalia. While the dissent is worth reading in its entirety, below are ten of his […]
Nobody likes a sore winner, but sore losers can be even worse. While growing up, you were probably told by your parents to learn from your failures and not make excuses for them. Evidently, however, based upon their reactions to the results of this year’s midterm elections, liberal journalists and Democratic lawmakers did not learn […]
Last semester we offered you, dear reader, a shortlist of ten recommended courses that we hoped might help you cobble together an enriching class schedule for the pursuit of the liberal arts (properly understood). We now present our recommendations for this spring: PHI301: Aristotle and His Successors– Every student of the liberal arts should study […]
“English privileges have made it all that it is,” Edmund Burke said, “English privileges alone will make it all it can be.” Thus the founder of modern conservatism descried the United States’ fate at the outbreak of hostilities in 1775. He ascribed our “fierce spirit of liberty” not to salon philosophes and Enlightenment ideologies but […]
Few things come to mind with the mention of Grover Cleveland. Some recall an incongruous combination of a city in Ohio and a blue muppet on Sesame Street. Others remember the U.S. President from the nineteenth century, and the Jeopardy champions among these remember that he was, in fact, both our twenty-second and twenty-fourth executive. […]
In years past, the Tory’s benefactor and my friend Daniel Mark would send to many undergraduates his recommended classes for the semester and a brief comment on each. His maxim: “a good professor can make any course good, and a bad professor can make any course bad.” My list may tend to emphasize the subjects […]
As the academic year draws to a close, I would like to take the opportunity to wish a fond farewell to Princeton’s seniors. Having had the chance to get to know many members of the Class of 2011, I can say for certain that their presence will be missed come September. At the same time, […]
Pro: The Student Agencies Monopoly Stifles Competition By Andrew Blumenfeld ’13 For all the terrific services offered by the University, students have continuously sought to fill still-unmet needs on campus—and to derive a profit while doing so. For about 100 years, this has meant the presence of the Princeton Student Agencies– University-recognized businesses that are […]
By Andrew Stella ’13 Earl Sinensis sat in his bed, reading the spiritless textbook assigned for his AP U.S. Government class. He hadn’t realized he had drifted off to sleep when suddenly he awoke with a start. Light was bursting out of the space between his closet doors, and it spread as they were opened […]
By George Maliha ’13 The Department of Public Safety (DPS) recently announced that all calls received from the Street—including those related to alcohol—would be reported to the Princeton Borough Police, which would presumably be expected to respond as well. While the eating clubs, as private property distinctly separate from the University, properly fall under the […]
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