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 […]
On February 8th, Princeton’s Department of English and the Princeton Committee on Palestine hosted Mohammed El-Kurd as the Edward W. Said ’57 Memorial Lecture Fund speaker. The Tory previously reported on the controversy surrounding El-Kurd’s invitation. In the lecture, titled “On Perfect Victims,” El-Kurd endorsed violence against Israel and its civilians. Professor Jeff Dolven, Acting […]
On February 8th, 2023, the Department of English and the Princeton Committee on Palestine will host activist Mohammed El-Kurd as the Edward W. Said ’57 Memorial Lecture Fund speaker. The decision of the English Department to invite El-Kurd, who has a history of antisemitism in his writing and public addresses, has sparked outcry across campus […]
As of November 28, 2022, the webpage of Princeton’s Office of International Programs lists “Palestine” as a country under its search functions for international internships. According to the site, Princeton offers a program at the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University, which is located in the country of “Palestine.” The site does […]
Princeton University’s announcement on September 29th to dissociate from the fossil fuel industry was inescapable. After major institutions like Harvard and Brown succumbed to public pressure, it was only a matter of time before Princeton would follow suit, eliminating fossil fuel holdings from its endowment and banning funding from hydrocarbon producing corporations. While the decision […]
Princeton University will offer a course titled “Black + Queer in Leather: Black Leather/BDSM Material Culture” in the Spring 2023 semester. The course will study how Black Queer BDSM material culture resists contextualization in relationship to biographical narratives. “Black + Queer in Leather” will be taught by Tiona Nekkia McClodden, a Princeton […]
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that laws regulating abortion belong to individual states in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the University released a statement disapproving of the Court’s decision and supporting abortion as an “essential and fundamental right.” The statement was published in an email by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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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