The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In the latest episode of let’s-reshape-institutions-that-make-us-lose, Democrats have turned on the “insufficiently democratic” Senate. The new brand of complaint has now evolved into an argument for District of Columbia statehood. The argument runs like this: D.C. has a population of about 700,000 people. […]
The Hall at Christ Church, Oxford The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. An academic seems no more obtuse and irrelevant than when he questions the very purpose of academia. If he himself is unable to explain why he applies himself to vague and outlandish lines of inquiry, then his […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Creation Museum’s Allosaurus exhibit. Courtesy of creationmuseum.org The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Along the highways of southwestern Ohio, backyard crosses and church steeples blaze brightly at night. In the heartland of America — where nearly three-quarters of adults are Christians — religion is a public matter, influencing […]
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 […]
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. The Senate Chamber of Whig Hall, where debates are held. Courtesy of whigclio.princeton.edu After my first year at Princeton, I was lucky enough to be invited to attend Reunions to help Whig-Clio put on the James Madison Award Ceremony—that year being given to […]
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 […]
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 […]
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In just a few days, November 22nd will mark fifty-four years since the tragic assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. That horrific event remains today at the center of many American’s minds, riddled with its treachery, sorrow, and the ominous […]
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. This article references a talk “Feminism & Planned Parenthood” given by Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America and mother of four. It occurred at Princeton University on November 6, 2017. Thousands of women marched in Washington D.C. last January clad in […]
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. The irony is palpable—discussions about how to discuss are becoming heated and futile all at once. American universities are having an existential crisis on how to handle this contentious little phrase, “free speech”—a phrase that is either dragged through the mud or placed […]
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