On April 15, I had the pleasure of hosting, on behalf of the Cliosophic Society, Ambassador John Bolton at Princeton’s Nassau Inn for a discussion entitled “The Room Where It Happened: National Security Decisions Under Pressure.” Bolton’s legacy as a leading professional in American foreign policy offered more than a glimpse behind the diplomatic curtain; […]
This January, I had the pleasure of succeeding Tory publisher William Neumann as the Cliosophic Society (Clio) Chairman. Clio, the right-leaning society within Whig-Clio, regularly hosts notable conservative speakers. On February 26th, we welcomed AEI Senior Fellow Charles Murray to campus for our first event of 2026. Murray has authored well-known books such as Coming […]
On October 4, 2022, Alize Roberson, the Residential Life Coordinator (RLC) of Forbes, one of Princeton’s residential colleges, announced the commencement of bi-weekly study breaks titled “Melanin Mondays.” Roberson is one of the University’s newly hired Residential Life Coordinators (RLCs), whose appointments were announced on August 26, 2022 by the Office of the Dean of […]
In an April 22 email to USG President Mayu Takeuchi ‘23 and USG Secretary Charlotte Selover ‘25, Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber announced that the University will not dissociate from Caterpillar, as requested by Referendum No. 3, which aligned itself with the national Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement calling for the end of […]
Image Courtesy of Wiki Commons Election chaos has come to Princeton. Preliminary results from April 13th indicate that the BDS-aligned Referendum 3, which called on the University to stop using Caterpillar construction equipment, had failed to win a majority of student support. The election ended in a plurality vote with 44% of Princeton students […]
According to leaked data from the University Student Government (USG) vote, Referendum #3, which aligned with the national Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and called on the University to halt the usage of Caterpillar construction equipment, failed to win a majority of student support. The referendum received 44% of the vote, the opposition […]
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 […]
On January 18, 2020, the Board of Trustees of The Princeton Tory ratified the results of the Tory’s election, selecting Editor-in-Chief Akhil Rajasekar ’21 as Publisher of the 36th Managing Board. “I plan to further improve the quality of the Tory’s published content and events and expand our impact online,” Rajasekar said. “I look forward to […]
Courtesy of Princeton University. “Are great political struggles ever sustained without prophets?” asked Professor Emeritus of Politics Maurizio Viroli in a Dec. 9 lecture. The talk, co-sponsored by the James Madison Program and the Program in Italian Studies, was centered on Italy’s unification (Risorgimento), and the “voices which urged Italians to emancipate themselves from their […]
Find two more graphics below. Courtesy of Liam O’Connor. Almost 60 percent of Shapiro Prize recipients from the Classes of 2019 and 2020 weren’t members of an eating club, a Tory investigation can reveal. Only 41 percent of upperclassmen overall forgo “The Street.” Winners are 40 percent more likely than their peers to be on […]
Courtesy of the Cato Institute. Ilya Shapiro ‘99, the director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, has become an influential voice in shaping law and policy from an originalist perspective. When he’s not writing or editing, Shapiro often finds time for speaking engagements. He visited the University last […]
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