Jared Stone /April 23, 2021
Courtesy of pixabay.com In recent years, many elite universities have organized affinity-based graduation celebrations. They have served to commemorate minority graduates during university commencement exercises. These events have been criticized by leading conservatives as a form of segregation and part of “woke culture.” Columbia University’s School of Engineering has implemented affinity-based celebrations which, […]
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Billy Wade /April 15, 2021
Visual of the Iranian Military Hall. Courtesy of nara.getarchive.net Princeton graduate student Wang Xiyue’s story is as unique as it is inspiring. After becoming a United States citizen at age 28, in 2016 Wang was arrested in Iran and held captive for 40 months for the sole crime of being an American citizen. Since […]
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Christopher /April 11, 2021
Whig Hall. Courtesy of whigclio.princeton.edu On Thursday, March 4, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, colloquially known as Whig-Clio, voted to revoke the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service (JMA) from Senator Ted Cruz ’92 (R-Texas). The JMA, which Whig-Clio has historically given to distinguished politicians, is the society’s highest honor. Following the vote, the […]
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Christopher and Cassandra James /March 26, 2021
Students, Faculty, and Administrators Respond to Year Like No Other. (Photo Credit: altumhealth.com) For the past year, America’s college students have been treading water. An August report from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 62.9 percent of Americans between 18 to 24 have reported symptoms of depression or anxiety, […]
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Cassandra James /March 1, 2021
On February 21, 2021, the Board of Trustees of The Princeton Tory ratified the results of the Tory’s election, selecting former Editor-in-Chief Adam Hoffman ’23 as Publisher of the 37th Managing Board. “The times are tough,” Hoffman acknowledges, “and we are tasked to record and comment on them. In our pages, I plan to […]
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Cassandra James /December 27, 2020
Latino Voters Are Not A Monolith (Photo Credit: NBC) “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, okay? Do I need to say more?” This quote from Senator Harry Reid (D) could easily have been on the news last night—but unfortunately, it is more than a decade old. All these years […]
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Jared Stone /November 5, 2020
Ross Perot 1992 run for president spoiled George HW Bush’s reelection. Photo Credit: AP The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. The spirit of protest is natural to the American ethos. When unleashed, it has reaped catastrophic harm and emboldened the government to further intervene in our lives. When employed […]
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Cassandra James and Matthew Wilson /October 29, 2020
Photo Credit: Saul Loeb // AFP via Getty Imagines I’m a conservative — but should I vote for Donald Trump? In the final days leading up to a historic presidential election, many conservative Princeton students have found themselves in a quandary; torn between supporting President Donald J. Trump, the 74-year-old controversial incumbent Republican firebrand, […]
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Cassandra James and Allyssa Noone /October 8, 2020
Princeton’s campus sits empty. (Photo Credit: Flickr/Ken Lund) Editor’s Note: In order to respect our sources’ anonymity, The Tory has changed the names of multiple interviewees. “Can we agree to disagree?” After months of painful silence, Daniel, a current Princeton student, finally confessed the truth to a friend: he planned to vote for Donald […]
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Princeton Open Campus Coalition /June 30, 2020
Dear President Eisgruber, We the undersigned undergraduate students of Princeton University write on behalf of the Princeton Open Campus Coalition, founded in 2015 to advocate for the university’s robust protection of important values such as free speech, free thought, and bold and fearless truth-seeking. We approach you now because we find that the events of […]
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Princeton University College Republicans /June 8, 2020
The Princeton Pro-Life Club released the following statement to The Tory following the the murder of George Floyd: As an organization committed to upholding the value and dignity of every human life—from conception to natural death—it was with great sorrow that Princeton Pro-Life witnessed the stripping away of the dignity and life of George Floyd, a […]
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Christopher /May 27, 2020
On Friday May 8, 2020, The Princeton Tory joined with Princeton College Republicans and the Cliosophic Party for a conversation with Representative Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), member of the House Committees on Agriculture and Small Businesses, to discuss his current political outlook, the conservative response to coronavirus, and his thoughts on rebuilding the American economy. The attached […]
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