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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...
Respect and Hierarchy in Higher Education
Hope springs eternal for university administrators. After declining to punish student protestors who flagrantly flouted institutional rules (and even local laws) last year, they nevertheless seem to think that...
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...
An Open Letter to My Liberal Friends
To my liberal friends, on the day after the Women’s March: I woke up this morning with the same pit in my stomach as on November 9, 2016. On...
