Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons “I don’t get why people complain about Princeton being ‘too liberal’ when the school has always been willing to accommodate or even embrace conservatism…Conservative students need to get their heads out of their [expletive].” This is just one recent example of anti-conservative material from the tens of thousands of […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Credit: The Manhattan Institute An Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, energy expert Mark Mills answered The Princeton Tory‘s questions on energy policy in 2020 and beyond. Is Climate Change as bad as the media makes it out to be? Should we be looking towards politicians for guidance on the severity of the issue? None […]
Dear Tories, It’s my absolute pleasure to usher this publication into another decade. Throughout the past thirty-five years, Princeton students have decided over and over again to invest countless hours into the Tory. The collective willpower of these Princetonians has kept this magazine going longer than anyone could have imagined. The Tory has even been […]
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