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Dept. of English Statement on the 2023 Edward Said Memorial Lecture | NEWS
The Tory obtained a copy of the Acting Chair of the Department of English’s response to a letter signed by over 40 students and sent to the Department of English on February 6, 2023, in response to an event featuring activist and journalist Mohammed El-Kurd that the department is co-sponsoring with the Princeton Committee on…
Read MoreMyles McKnight ’23 Discusses Princeton’s COVID Restrictions On Fox News And Fox Business
Image Courtesy of Fox News Tory contributor Myles McKnight ’23 was invited on Fox News and Fox Business to share his thoughts on the University’s restrictions related to COVID-19 and the Omicron variant. “The university [has] these requirements in light of surging COVID cases in the New Jersey and New York area. Some of…
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Read MoreAnnouncing the 35th Managing Board of The Princeton Tory
The Princeton Tory Vol. 35 Publisher Joaquim Brooks ’20 Editor-in-Chief Jeff Zymeri ’20 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Senior Opinion Editor Akhil Rajasekar ’21 Opinion Editors Max Parsons ’20 Stephen Phillips ’20 Nick Wooldridge ’21 News Editors Anne Marie Wright ’20 Copy Editors Robert Doar ’22 Thomas Morris ’20 Design and Cartoon Editor Grace Koh ’20 Financial Manager Will…
Read MoreThe Carbon Tax: A Conservative Solution
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In today’s polarized politics, few liberals would expect a Republican to care about the environment. However people often forget that conservatism and conservation have a tightly woven past. The Environmental Protection Agency owes a debt of thanks to President Nixon; the Climate Stewardship…
Read MoreWhy Federalism Still Matters
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. We live in a country divided. And contrary to what pundits may say, this is the way it is meant to be. The United States is a large country with a geographically-dispersed population containing a diverse set of religious and ethnic groups. To…
Read MoreNegotiating on the Side of Life in the Abortion Debate
Princeton Pro-Life at the March for Life. Courtesy of prolife.princeton.edu The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Earlier this year, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society hosted a caucus at the Whig Senate Chamber to craft bipartisan abortion rights policies. In more ways than one, the event proved timely. Increasing concerns, especially…
Read MoreHe’s Always Watching You
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Indoctrination and slow engravement in the memory of the people through propaganda, where no other past is remembered or imagined, was the goal of the Bolivarian Revolution. In the evening of December 6, 1998, the electoral ballot was released where Hugo Chávez won…
Read MoreBlurred Branches: The Problem with Bureaucracy
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Many academics have distinguished the New Deal as the piece of legislation that catalyzed the ‘administrative state’ into power. The implementation of such expansionary pieces of government policy required the construction of various commissions, boards, and agencies, alike. This elevated the influence of…
Read MoreSocrates on Pleasure
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Socrates, coming across Modernigias staring pensively into the Woody Woo Fountain, begins to question him. SOCRATES: What, my dear friend, brings you to gaze upon this bronze fountain? MODERNIGIAS: To experience the pleasure of its unpredictable meanderings. SOCRATES: Do you speak Greek? MODERNIGIAS:…
Read MoreThe Conservative Case for a Federal Pay Increase
During the last months of 2015, Congressional leaders passed a budget agreement to fund the federal government through 2017 and avert another potential shutdown. This $1.1 trillion budget agreement raises spending by $66 billion and increases the national deficit by approximately $500 billion. However, despite such massive spending increases, the budget agreement does not give…
Read MoreThe Western Water Hemlock: Judicial Activism Nurtures the Most Toxic Plant in Modern North America
Dedicated to Justice Antonin Scalia and Professor Robert P. George With the 2015 video scandal which questioned Planned Parenthood funding and possible medical malpractice; with the 50th Anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut; with the on-coming 2016 US Presidential Election; and with the tragic passing of the most senior member of the United States Supreme…
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