Posts by Margaret Fox '13
Missing Each Other: Pragmatism, Principles, and Dissonance in the Marriage Debate
It’s official, ladies and gentlemen: the marriage debate now transcends party lines.
Read MoreBurma: Potential for Growth or Catastrophe
In 1956, Mao Zedong inaugurated a political opening in China with his Hundred Flowers Campaign, saying these words: “Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress.”
Read MoreThe Continuing Madness of North Korea
North Korea is somehow getting even stranger.
Read MoreFederal Funding for Science: What Not to Do
Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution lays out the enumerated powers granted to the federal government by the American people.
Read MoreHealth and Campus Life
Health problems are unfortunately—and unnecessarily—common at Princeton.
Read MorePublisher’s Letter: The Tory’s Mission at Princeton
Greetings, Tory readers! My name is David Byler, and I am the new Publisher of the PrincetonTory. I am both honored and excited to assume the duties of Publisher for this upcoming year.
Read MoreReview: What is Marriage? by Robert.P. George, Sherif Girgis, and Ryan T. Anderson
Given the recent swirl of events and talk surrounding the issue of “marriage equality,” the recent book, “What is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense,” has come out at precisely the right moment.
Read MoreTen Questions with Profesor Alan Ryan
Professor of Politics Alan Ryan began teaching political theory at Oxford in 1969. Hearrived at Princeton in 1987, but returned to Oxford in 1996 to serve as the warden of New College. In 2009, he rejoined the Princeton faculty. Professor Ryan graduated from Oxford in 1962 and attended graduate school at University College London . In recognition of…
Read MoreThe Liberal Arts and a Core Curriculum for Princeton
The liberal arts are no longer in vogue. Then again, few things still are that first got hot in the fifteenth century, but if we are to listen to the prevailing wisdom among academia today, that’s something to be thankful for anyway.
Read MoreRed Science, Blue Science, My Science, Your Science
The hopeful intuition that science is uniquely neutral, objective, and ideology- free, while attractive in our political era, utterly fails to hold in practice. Science is a good and immensely useful tool to answer all sorts of questions. It can certainly help us in policy-making, but it shouldn’t be policy-making.
Read MoreTo Love without Philosophy: Love and Lust in the Bubble
Some grad student in a struggling American Studies department is going to have a field
day in thirty years. He’ll be researching the sexual culture at the turn of the millennium and
chance upon the “Love and Lust in the Bubble” series.
Conservatism in the Days ahead
As this is my final issue as Publisher of the Tory, this letter will be my opportunity to both say goodbye and introduce the next Publisher of this magazine. It’s been a great honor to serve as the Tory’s Publisher in the last year, and I’d like to thank the excellent staff that I had for an exciting year.
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