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Non-Religious Discussion?
When a movement exclusive in membership, religious in orientation, and all comprehensive in its ideological scope attempts to gain the sanction of a secular university community committed to diversity and inclusion, it obviously puts itself into a paradoxical situation. This was the situation the founders of Princeton’s Anscombe Society, a group “dedicated to affirming the…
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RIP Augusto Pinochet
Frankly, I hope he rots in hell. There is no figure more odious than the man who supplants democracy with tyranny. Augusto Pinochet sailed into power on the crest of the military coup d�etat that threw democratic President Salvador Allende out of office and into a coffin.
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The Character of Princeton
“The town claims these sites as essential to their identity, forming gateways to enter into their unique area of New Jersey. But the sites belong to Princeton University, whose influence is world renowned, far surpassing that of the town. How can the town genuinely foster these sites into the fabric of its identity, while they…
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Hope, Hip Hop and Hosing Harvard
Prof Cornel West discusses his three piece suits, his escape from Harvard over his hip hop debut, and the general state of American youth and racial politics.
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The Life and Times of Anthony Veasna So
A look at the late writer and his posthumous debut story collection.
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Election
I love Woody Woo students. Their affability. Their political charm. Their electoral obsession. But I know I’m not – nor ever will be – one of them. I’m a prideful English major, content with my metrics, and my ever-mounting stacks of books. There are overlaps, assuredly, between the literary and the political approaches to life…
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I Have a Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction-Related-Program-Activity in My Pants
I think I’ve finally got the screwball logic of our commander-n-thief figured out. G-dub’s advisors actually got it together and read something – in print! Unfortunately for us it was George Orwell’s classic, 1984. On page four (of my paperback edition), the party’s tripartite slogan is introduced. When I read it again, it was too…
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Sisterhood of the Caliphate
Glory is hard to find. In a world of left swipes and back seat dates, in a world where we derive self importance from the attention our statuses get, where political messages are reduced to 140 characters, it can be easy to get lost in the quay.
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An E-mail I Received from Barack Obama, Democratic Nominee for President of America
Dear Chris— We’ve done it! Or rather, I’ve done it—successfully completed my first debate with Sen. John McCain, whom I refer to as ‘John’ in order to seem familiar and approachable and non-Muslim.