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Princeton Is Never Neutral

In the early hours of a Friday in the spring of 1978, two hundred and ten Princeton students piled into Nassau Hall and occupied it for twenty-seven hours.

by Joshua Leifer on April 18, 2015April 26, 2015

Local Politics

On July 28, I attended a meeting of the Princeton mayor and council. I had been asked to come by a member of Food and Water Watch. The pro-consumer NGO wanted a student environmentalist there to show support for a proposed local fracking ban. I had never been to any such meeting, and didn’t know what to expect.

by Dayton Martindale on October 11, 2014October 19, 2014

Choices in the Cupboard of Our Past

“The study of the Islamic world is no longer an exoticism and it is no longer a luxury.”

by Guy Johnston on February 14, 2016February 21, 2016

Exit Polling

America’s choosing day, surveyed.

by Clara Wilson-Hawken on November 7, 2012March 17, 2013

Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the Limits of the Liberal Imagination

Wherein a Nass writer looks at the popular sitcom from a more radical angle.

by Peter Taylor on November 7, 2021November 6, 2021

When Sustainability Isn’t Sexy

“Does the ‘look’ of sustainability, a sort of glamorous image expressed in the carefully crafted brand of environmental nonprofits, obscure all the unassuming pockets of sustainability?”

by Julia Stern on November 2, 2023

Our Reactionary Monolith

Last month, the members of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society found Edward Snowden guilty of treason. On other campuses—even Princeton’s aristocratic, Northeastern peers—Edward Snowden is a kind of geek-dissident hero who harnessed his hacking powers for good to reveal the excesses of the National Security Agency.

by Joshua Leifer on November 30, 2013December 8, 2013

Boxed In

As U.S. immigration policy changes rapidly, is it fair that undocumented workers face the law without representation? Three years ago, countless stacks of cardboard boxes filled the basement closet of a tall, narrow building at Broad and Market in Trenton. … Read More

by Lara Norgaard on August 11, 2016

Nixon’s Ghost

What separates Trump from his predecessors is his willingness, and the willingness of his supporters, to give up any pretense of subtly or slyness. Trump’s campaign, despite what the headlines say, is not unprecedented in this way. It has simply set at center stage the racial politics that Republicans have long trafficked in but preferred to dress in finer rhetorical disguises.

by Joshua Leifer on August 11, 2016September 26, 2016

The Incremental Approach

A look at the astonishing career of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

by Ava Peters on October 25, 2020October 25, 2020

Magaysia

Abhorring abhorring Malaysia.

by Dayton Martindale on October 17, 2012March 22, 2013

Define Your Terms: Responding to Joshua Leifer’s Misguided Wall Street Allegations

The breadth and depth of financial services extends far beyond the scope of the causes of the financial crisis, and to identify a sector that comprises 9 percent of the economy or even any of the companies within that sector as wholly anything is a mistake.

by Andrew Tynes, Walker Carpenter on April 17, 2016April 17, 2016


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