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Exposing the Unseriousness of Elite Irreligion
When I was in seventh grade, a girl at my New York private school told our history class that she believed Christianity was fundamentally anti-intellectual: No thinking person could...
The Death of Institutional Identity
In the entrance of historic Nassau Hall at the heart of Princeton University is Memorial Atrium, designed in 1920 to commemorate the Princeton students and alumni killed in battle....
Princeton and the Erosion of Expertise
Plato argued that we should, in all areas of life, defer to experts. If you wish to raise good horses, employ an expert horse-trainer. If you wish to cure...