Category: Second Look

After Trump’s win, Princeton’s right wing is preparing to take charge

The Heritage Foundation, the Whig-Clio election watch party, and Princeton’s place in the conservative orbit

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Princeton Pro-Life on the 2024 United States Election

The political attachments and detachments of Princeton Pro-Life in the face of the general election

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On Campus, the Israel Divestment Struggle is in Limbo

On September 30, 2024, during a Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) meeting, two dozen pro-Palestine protesters gathered off to the side of the room, tape over their mouths. They held paper signs with slogans such as “Princeton your … Read More

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Keeping Princeton Cemetery Alive Through the Seasons

SPRING  On one day you may come across a trumpet fanfare heralding a US president; on another, a woman meditating cross-legged under a tree; and perhaps on Halloween, the touch of a phantom hand. Rows of neatly arranged headstones stand … Read More

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Closest to the Solution: The Story and Legacy of Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative

A Second Look writer speaks with formerly incarcerated students, PTI educators, and Princeton administrators about the resilience of the program

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Q&A: Eliza Griswold on Journalism in a New Trump Era

A Pulitzer-Prize-winning professor talks electoral reporting and the journalistic horizon

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Princeton’s Mediterranean Mosaic Hunt

In the 1930s, Princeton ran its own ‘grand’ colonial excavation in the Near East. What happened next?

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