Posts by Ely Brown '18
Pro-Woman, Or Pro-Life? Addressing Feminism’s False Dichotomy
On September 20, British actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson delivered a speech concerning gender inequality and the need for women as well as men to become engaged in solving the issue. On the whole, she succeeded in eloquently illuminating societal and global problems such as disparities in income and access to education…
Read MoreThe Republican Party’s Path to Victory
Editor’s note–we are publishing this piece before we deliver hard copies of the magazine in order to ensure it can be viewed well in advance of the election. Other articles from our October issue will be released online after the magazines are distributed following Fall Break. The morning of November 7, 2012, Republicans across the…
Read MoreGreetings and welcome, Class of 2018!
Greetings and Welcome, Class of 2018! As I begin this letter, I fear that I will choke on all the standard welcome-to-campus cliches in this opening paragraph. To avoid platitudinal suffocation, let it suffice to say that we’re all glad you’re here, we look forward to meeting you, and, moreover, we hope that you will…
Read MoreThe Editors’ Guide to Conservatism at Princeton
Dear fellow conservatives: as your parents, cousins, teachers, and priests have warned you (or, if you’re hiding in the closet from all of these, as you’ve quietly and hesitatingly admitted to yourself), you are about to enter a trying, if exhilarating, four years. Every undergraduate’s views here are developing, changing, expanding, and being challenged in…
Read MoreDysfunction in D.C.: A Tale from Inside the Beltway
During the first week of my summer in Washington, D.C., I arranged to meet up with a friend who had recently been hired at a conservative-leaning think tank. I was interning for a national political party, and he was full of advice on what I should do during my ten weeks in D.C. After catching…
Read MoreGrover Cleveland: The Happy Warrior
Few things come to mind with the mention of Grover Cleveland. Some recall an incongruous combination of a city in Ohio and a blue muppet on Sesame Street. Others remember the U.S. President from the nineteenth century, and the Jeopardy champions among these remember that he was, in fact, both our twenty-second and twenty-fourth executive.…
Read MoreThe Adventure of the Temperate Life
It constantly struck me in my own freshman year that this was the fitting time for feats of raucousness, that drunkenness and intemperate passion were habits proper to youth or at least could be winked at on account of immaturity. As a young man they were almost not faults so much as nature itself, and…
Read MoreWhy the “Pro-Choice” Movement Needs Religious Freedom
In the days after the Supreme Court’s controversial 5–4 ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, everyone was an expert, and, naturally, everyone had an opinion. As an intern for the American Religious Freedom Program this summer, I spent hours tracking social media responses to the ruling, and, for the most part, I was thoroughly unsurprised…
Read MoreJeff Bell’s Message Beginning to Ring Clear Throughout New Jersey
On March 29, 2014, Princeton College Republicans hosted the annual convention for the New Jersey College Republican Federation, an organization of about a dozen CR chapters in universities across the state. Numerous elected officials arrived at Princeton’s campus for the occasion, including Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno, Congressman Leonard Lance, and Assemblywoman Donna Simon. In addition,…
Read MorePresident Eisgruber: A Year in Review
At the February meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community, President Eisgruber outlined the challenges facing Princeton in the next decade and how he plans to address them. The “significant trends” he believes to be influential in the arena of higher education, and to which he feels Princeton must respond, include “growing inequality…
Read MoreLocal Politics: Read All about It!
If he finds “anyone in Princeton…who is Republican,” Dudley Sipprelle, Chairman of the Princeton Republican Committee, will be all ears. It was not that long ago that Princeton was a conservative-minded town. But now when Sipprelle encounters a Princetonian who shares his beliefs, he experiences a moment of astonishment. In 2005, when Sipprelle and his…
Read MoreDistributism: An Evaluation
While most mainstream discussion of economic systems focuses on Capitalism and Socialism, and the ways they inevitably combine in the modern mixed economy, some advocate a radical alternative to either of them: Distributism. Distributism’s proponents, many of whom are devout Catholics who see the system as most compatible with and, in fact, formed by the…
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