Adam Hoffman /March 23, 2022
Image courtesy of Princeton University The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. After de jure limitations on free speech on college campuses spurred corrective policies, University administrators and advocates of free speech must now construct protections against de facto limitations. My experience at Princeton hosting conservative intellectuals has […]
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Shane Patrick /March 19, 2022
Image courtesy of ABC News The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Although Princeton has tried in recent years to distance itself from Woodrow Wilson, his approach to education and his philosophy of global responsibility remain cornerstones in the intellectual foundations of this university. Wilson’s foreign policy is […]
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Santhosh Nadarajah /March 18, 2022
Image courtesy of the South China Morning Post The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In 1944, during WWII, Allied nations met at the Bretton Woods Resort in snowy New Hampshire to discuss how to revamp the global financial system once Nazi Germany was inevitably defeated. The International […]
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Alexandra Orbuch /February 4, 2022
Image courtesy of Wikipedia The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In October 2021, 198 Princeton professors signed a letter denouncing the Department of Justice’s China Initiative. Created during the Trump administration, the initiative was directed towards “identifying and prosecuting those engaged in trade secret theft, hacking, and […]
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Danielle Shapiro /January 31, 2022
In recent years, the Democrats have struggled to define a stance on Israel – and Princeton College Democrats (College Dems) are no exception. While Princeton College Dems is in alignment with the national Democratic party on several key issues, they depart on the question of Israel and treatment of Jews. According to their website, Princeton […]
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Benjamin Woodard /January 9, 2022
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 […]
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Jared Stone /January 8, 2022
Image courtesy of Los Angeles Times The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. There has become a tendency within modern American political discourse to portray the so-called “culture war” – a pejorative term connoting Republican efforts to push back against the degradation of the American cultural fabric – […]
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Alexandra Orbuch and Danielle Shapiro /January 6, 2022
Image courtesy of Ms. Magazine The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. “I’ll be honest. I’ve only heard the narrative and speculation around it. I don’t quite know what it is,” Ahmad Higazy ‘23 told The Tory when asked to explain Critical Race Theory (CRT). Critical Race Theory […]
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Alexandra Orbuch /January 5, 2022
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Critical Race Theory (CRT) promotes the idea that we should reexamine the role of race in American history and the current structures of power. There is no denying that racism has been a pernicious agent throughout human history and painfully remains so to […]
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Reid Zlotky /December 13, 2021
Image courtesy of Flickr The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Sociologists have documented that Americans are becoming increasingly secular. Many point to American college campuses as evidence of God’s absence in public life. However, I argue that it is not that colleges are irreligious, but that a […]
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Jared Stone /December 11, 2021
Image courtesy of Flickr.com The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Over this past summer, I was struck by a quote that said that the learning Jew hosts greater potential for personal growth, positive social impact, and religious continuity than the learned Jew. While I hesitate to […]
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Danielle Shapiro /December 9, 2021
Located in Murray Dodge Hall, Princeton’s Office of Religious Life (ORL) is a hub for undergraduate religious and interfaith programming. The center provides meditation, dialogue, and worship for students. In the words of the Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel, Dean Alison Boden, the ORL is a “home away from home for our […]
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