The Princeton Tory is excited to launch a “Letters” section this semester. For the first time, the Tory asked members of the student body for short responses to a selected question. The first such question was “Should religious beliefs shape policy?” Students were free to approach this question from a personal, theoretical, legal, historical, or […]
In the year since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center, the Left has continually decried the current Supreme Court as a right-leaning activist body grasping for power in order to imperil basic rights. Countless conservative commentators have responded by pointing out the irony of defining “power-hungry activism” as “sending power back to the states” and […]
On Friday, November 10th, I had the honor of attending Bari Weiss’s lecture at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention. The lecture was given in honor of Barbara K. Olson, a conservative legal commentator who was murdered by Al-Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. Weiss, former New York Times opinion editor and founder of The Free Press, […]
This reflection was written shortly after editor Ben Woodard ’25 participated in a trip to Israel hosted by the Tory in January 2023. Given the horrific events of the past two weeks, he felt that it was important to share his reflection to spread awareness about the reality on the ground in Israel as he […]
Conservatives should make more substantive moral arguments in policy debates. Broken windows policing says, in brief, that police ought to focus on basic issues of public order and cleanliness to establish a community culture inhospitable to serious crime. The theory, originated by the neoconservative James Q. Wilson in 1982, was extremely influential in the crime […]
On the evening of February 3, around three dozen students gathered to hear Fordham Law Professor Tanya Hernández at the Princeton Progressive Law Society’s first event. Hernández is a Fulbright Scholar and author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, and her remarks were titled, “Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias in […]
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. […]
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 […]
Image courtesy of Flickr.com The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Critical race theory (CRT)-influenced curriculum and supporting parental concerns about education have become winning issues for the post-Trump GOP—look no further than the Virginia governor’s race. But what should Republicans do about CRT once in office? GOP-dominated […]
Image courtesy of The Hill The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Aristotle argues in Nicomachean Ethics that politics is “the highest ruling science” because it employs all of the other sciences to order society and individual action towards the highest good for peoples and cities. While achieving […]
Image courtesy of Flickr.com. In May 2021, the Daily Princetonian published the “Princeton University community statement of solidarity with the Palestinian people.” This statement was signed by over sixty-five university faculty and staff as well as dozens of students and alumni. “We, members of the Princeton University community, condemn the ongoing attacks on […]
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