Nassau Weekly

Politics

  • No Filter

    No Filter

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    There’s no reason that competence and authenticity should be odds with one another. Yet many of the ways that we read authenticity—Bernie Sanders’ oversized suits, per say, or Trump’s disregard for political correctness—do defy the codes through which we usually measure a candidate’s fitness for office.

  • Trumpist for a Day

    Trumpist for a Day

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    Going deep undercover into the terrified and terrifying world of Trump supporters and elderly grandparents.

  • Another Little Trump Piece

    Another Little Trump Piece

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    A month ago, before any of us took semiseriously the idea that Donald Trump might win the Republican primary race, coverage of Trump in the media presented an instructive paradox:

  • Princeton Is Never Neutral

    Princeton Is Never Neutral

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    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.

  • Leftism in Limbo

    Leftism in Limbo

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    At first glance, it seems that the culture wars never really ended; they simply slipped out of public consciousness temporarily.

  • Across the Political Pond

    Across the Political Pond

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    You’re in America, you’re busy, you don’t have time to keep up with politics all over the world. There are a lot of parties, a lot of elections. Who can follow all of them?

  • Thanks, Obama

    Thanks, Obama

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    Last week President Obama released a Buzzfeed video called “Things Everybody Does But Doesn’t Talk About” to tell people that February 15th deadline for enrolling for health care. I saw the link on my Facebook wall on Thursday and, in an unusual moment of being on top of the social media curve, I witnessed more…

  • My Tenure For A Tweet

    My Tenure For A Tweet

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    After being disinvited from a panel on campus about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Associate Professor Max Weiss wrote in The Daily Princetonian, “Princeton must remain a place where open debate and academic exchange is encouraged and allowed to flourish, even on the most controversial issues.” It would be a lot easier to take him at his…

  • Local Politics

    Local Politics

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    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…

  • Our Reactionary Monolith

    Our Reactionary Monolith

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    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.

  • The Military-Emotional Complex

    The Military-Emotional Complex

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    “The French image of the typical soldier is highly unflattering: an aristocratic, lunkheaded Saint-Cyrien or an ultra-Catholic crypto-fascist.”

  • Dinesh D’Sandy

    Dinesh D’Sandy

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    It would perhaps be a platitude to say that children are much too influenced by their parents’ political views. I feel the statement to be true on a personal level, in that nearly all my peers throughout high school tended to have political leanings similar to their parents, or specific beliefs directly related to how…