Posts by Benjamin Woodard
Beyond “Broken Windows” Social Policy Arguments | Opinion
Conservatives should make more substantive moral arguments in policy debates. Broken windows policing says, in brief, that police ought to focus on basic issues of public order and cleanliness to establish a community culture inhospitable to serious crime. The theory, originated by the neoconservative James Q. Wilson in 1982, was extremely influential in the crime…
Read More“Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias in the Law”: Princeton Progressive Law Society Holds Inaugural Event | News
On the evening of February 3, around three dozen students gathered to hear Fordham Law Professor Tanya Hernández at the Princeton Progressive Law Society’s first event. Hernández is a Fulbright Scholar and author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, and her remarks were titled, “Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias in…
Read MoreWhat Does It Mean to Be a Princeton Student? | OPINION
In the popular imagination and in that of its students, is about progress. Technological innovation and new ideas are the coins of the realm. Students come here to meet new people and move beyond old attachments and passively accept the near-universal advice that college is a time to try new things and escape old identities.…
Read MoreReligion, Truth-Seeking, and the University | OPINION
Occurrences like Terrace Club sending an email explicitly mocking a protestant religious event or a prominent Princeton alumna repeatedly tweeting unfounded accusations that Catholic Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barett is in a cult happen far too often to be dismissed as random incidents. They indicate that many Princetonians graduate as religious illiterates – unfamiliar with…
Read MoreCRT, Education, and Liberalism: A “Dead Consensus” Answer to a Live Debate | OPINION
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…
Read MoreReligion is the Answer to Political Totalism | OPINION
Image courtesy of The Hill The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Aristotle argues in Nicomachean Ethics that politics is “the highest ruling science” because it employs all of the other sciences to order society and individual action towards the highest good for peoples and cities. While achieving…
Read MoreThe Lopsided (Il)legality of the Israel-Hamas Conflict | OPINION
Image courtesy of Flickr.com. In May 2021, the Daily Princetonian published the “Princeton University community statement of solidarity with the Palestinian people.” This statement was signed by over sixty-five university faculty and staff as well as dozens of students and alumni. “We, members of the Princeton University community, condemn the ongoing attacks on…
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