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Loosening the Mother Tongue

“When I learned about the darker history of Zionism, I needed to reverse so much of what I thought to be true while undoing my deepest personal and communal language. Like leaving a cult, my whole world was turned upside down as I tried to gather the pieces of what was once a coherent story.”

by Zev Mishell on February 26, 2023

From the Nass Past

What were Princeton students writing about thirty years ago? We’re jumping back in time to February, 1993 for some woeful poetry, questionable health advice, and dining hall commentary from our forefathers at the Nass.   Some wisdom for your post-Valentine’s … Read More

by Julia Stern, Matthew Robb, Sean L. McCarthy, W.T. Patterson on February 19, 2023

THE PHILOSOPHICAL FIVE (my very objective opinion on the best and worst philosophers of all time)

“Also known as the father of all philosophy (daddy?) Socrates is the original playboy. Everyone, and I mean everyone, fangirls over him.”

by Lumepa-Rose Young on November 20, 2022November 20, 2022

Remembrance, not Recollection

A writer reflects on history as a collective pursuit in his Jewish tradition.

by Adam Hoffman on October 30, 2022October 30, 2022

Only In Name: The Myth of Model Minority Assimilation

“There is a sad symbolism to this game of catch-up, a sense of sprinting after an ideal that is perpetually out of reach.”

by Sierra Stern on February 20, 2022February 22, 2022

Ghosts of Berggasse 19

“You are buzzed in after a moment, as if you are entering a doctor’s office, as if you are a patient, as if the Freud, whose eyes stare out from the tiers of brochures in the museum’s front room, will tell you in due time what your dreams mean.”

by Tess Solomon on July 31, 2018July 29, 2018

Monumento Mori

“Commemorating those who died in the American Civil War, and the consequences of a selective memory.”

by Nicolette D’Angelo on December 10, 2017December 10, 2017

A Form of Evidence

Inside Firestone’s special collections, coins tell us about history.

by Carson Welch on November 19, 2017November 17, 2017

The Bust of Sokrates

“But then the Romans didn’t want paunchy, lumpy bodies in their villas (aside from their own), so they decapitated Sokrates, already green and moldy from the hemlock, and shoved his face alone in their alcoves, dressing him up in pure white marble.”

by A C Gray on October 15, 2017October 14, 2017

The Parapsychologists

“From the driveway, Professor Jahn was visible standing behind the screen door. He did not motion or wave as we drove off. He just watched us leave.”

by Alejandro de la Garza on October 1, 2017September 30, 2017

Pointing Fingers

“My point that I’m not pointing starts with the Scopes Trial.”

by Sarah Barnette on February 26, 2017February 26, 2017

Books@ Cafe

The rich history of a gay café in Amman, Jordan and the social change it inspired in a complex metropolis

by Christian Bischoff on February 26, 2017July 22, 2017


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