Beatrice Prince (‘28): I met Charlie Kirk this summer outside the White House while I was interning for Senator Tom Cotton. I had followed him for nearly ten years, but that day he became real to me. He didn’t just shake my hand and move on; he stopped, smiled, and spoke to me with a [...] The post Tell the Tory: Princetonians Reflect on the Life of Charlie Kirk first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
On Wednesday, September 10, conservative leader Charlie Kirk was assassinated on the campus of Utah Valley University. Here at Princeton, students took to the popular anonymous posting app Fizz to share their thoughts on the tragedy. Reactions were mixed: while some students offered prayers and condolences to Kirk and his family, others seemed to gloat [...] The post Princeton Students Mock, Pray in Anonymous Reactions to the Charlie Kirk Assassination first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
On Wednesday, Charlie Kirk was assassinated on the campus of Utah Valley University. He was murdered while engaging in good-faith dialogue with college students – the proper, tried-and-true way of practicing politics in a republic. He leaves behind a widowed wife and two young children. His death is a tragedy for his family and the [...] The post Statement on the Assassination of Charlie Kirk first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
Dear Princeton Class of ’29: This letter comes to you from the alumni organization, Princetonians for Free Speech (PFS). We have existed since you started high school four years ago. We were founded in response to a growing concern that Princeton has drifted from its core mission of the pursuit of knowledge and truth, and [...] The post A Letter to the Class of ’29 from Princetonians for Free Speech first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
As we begin to celebrate the country’s semiquincentennial, let’s remember it could have turned out far differently. “Now the onely way to avoyde this shipwracke, and to provide for our poster| The Princeton Tory
A response to Khoa Sands ’26 On July 2, 1881 — exactly 105 years after the Continental Congress voted to declare American independence from Great Britain — President James A. Garfield was shot by a disgruntled, and likely schizophrenic, lawyer named Charles J. Guiteau. During the 1880 campaign cycle, an unknown Guiteau had supposedly delivered [...] The post Democracy in America, Not Bureaucracy in America first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
The Trump administration’s decision to neutralize Iran’s nuclear facilities was a heroic, necessary, and indispensable act of global leadership. In just 12 days, the United States and Israel halted the nuclear ambitions of the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, achieving this–thank God–with zero American casualties. However, to the Princeton School of Public & International [...] The post The Cost of Consensus: Princeton SPIA’s Failure to Platform Competing Views on Iran ...| The Princeton Tory
Last December, former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy took to X (formerly Twitter) to share a now-infamous rant about the supposed decay of American culture. With his signature populist edge, he claimed the United States “venerates mediocrity” and punishes ambition, arguing immigrants from Asia (and their American-born children) outperform multi-generational Americans because they come from [...] The post On American Cultural Superiority first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
Earlier this year, I published an article sharply criticizing white nationalism, neo-Nazism, and the resurgence of paleoconservatism within the Republican Party. In retrospect, I made a significant rookie error: I conflated paleoconservatism with the fringe ideologies of white nationalism and neo-Nazism. This mischaracterization stemmed from a shallow understanding of paleoconservatism, which I had not yet [...] The post A Realignment of the Right first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
Everyone hates bureaucracy – especially the right. The second Trump administration has declared war on the federal bureaucracy with a renewed animus, establishing the Department of Government Efficiency to ostensibly root out wastefulness. On its surface, DOGE is a good idea. It is necessary, and should inspire broad sympathies from the American public. When people [...] The post In Defense of Bureaucracy first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory