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Anti-Israel Encampment Causes Distress for Jewish Students, Disrupts Learning

/April 25, 2024

On April 24, 2024, National Review (NR) published an article announcing that, according to leaked documents, students planned to organize a “Gaza solidarity encampment” at Princeton. Pro-Palestinian protestors have set up similar encampments at universities across the country in recent weeks, most notably at Columbia University.  After the NR piece was published, Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun […]

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Announcing the 35th Managing Board of The Princeton Tory

/February 20, 2019

The Princeton Tory Vol. 35 Publisher  Joaquim Brooks ’20 Editor-in-Chief  Jeff Zymeri ’20 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Senior Opinion Editor  Akhil Rajasekar ’21 Opinion Editors Max Parsons ’20 Stephen Phillips ’20 Nick Wooldridge ’21 News Editors Anne Marie Wright ’20 Copy Editors  Robert Doar ’22 Thomas Morris ’20 Design and Cartoon Editor Grace Koh ’20 Financial Manager Will […]

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The Carbon Tax: A Conservative Solution

/January 25, 2019

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In today’s polarized politics, few liberals would expect a Republican to care about the environment. However people often forget that conservatism and conservation have a tightly woven past. The Environmental Protection Agency owes a debt of thanks to President Nixon; the Climate Stewardship […]

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Why Federalism Still Matters

/January 25, 2019

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. We live in a country divided. And contrary to what pundits may say, this is the way it is meant to be. The United States is a large country with a geographically-dispersed population containing a diverse set of religious and ethnic groups. To […]

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Negotiating on the Side of Life in the Abortion Debate

/January 25, 2019

Princeton Pro-Life at the March for Life. Courtesy of prolife.princeton.edu The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Earlier this year, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society hosted a caucus at the Whig Senate Chamber to craft bipartisan abortion rights policies. In more ways than one, the event proved timely. Increasing concerns, especially […]

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He’s Always Watching You

/January 22, 2018

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Indoctrination and slow engravement in the memory of the people through propaganda, where no other past is remembered or imagined, was the goal of the Bolivarian Revolution. In the evening of December 6, 1998, the electoral ballot was released where Hugo Chávez won […]

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Blurred Branches: The Problem with Bureaucracy

/January 22, 2018

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Many academics have distinguished the New Deal as the piece of legislation that catalyzed the ‘administrative state’ into power. The implementation of such expansionary pieces of government policy required the construction of various commissions, boards, and agencies, alike. This elevated the influence of […]

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Socrates on Pleasure

/October 23, 2017

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Socrates, coming across Modernigias staring pensively into the Woody Woo Fountain, begins to question him. SOCRATES: What, my dear friend, brings you to gaze upon this bronze fountain? MODERNIGIAS: To experience the pleasure of its unpredictable meanderings. SOCRATES: Do you speak Greek? MODERNIGIAS: […]

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The Conservative Case for a Federal Pay Increase

/April 7, 2016

During the last months of 2015, Congressional leaders passed a budget agreement to fund the federal government through 2017 and avert another potential shutdown. This $1.1 trillion budget agreement raises spending by $66 billion and increases the national deficit by approximately $500 billion. However, despite such massive spending increases, the budget agreement does not give […]

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