In the early months of 2002, the nation's capital was teeming with politicians and pundits alike extolling the United States as the arbiter of justice and the emancipator of the repressed.
Everyone who is against Bush's planned war in Iraq ? a group which seems to include almost the entire population of the earth at this point, including an ever-growing percentage of Americans ? has his or her own reasons for this conviction.
I am enjoying some extended and uninterrupted time in Firestone Library, and reacquainting myself with old familiar nooks and crannies, such as 3-7-J, the locked "Philosophy Graduate Study Room," surprising home to a viable non-circulating set of the Patrologia Latina.
Soon after the terrorist attacks of September 11, President Bush signed into law a sweeping list of additions and updates to earlier intelligence statutes.
Baraka should speakI was surprised to read Wednesday's staff editorial, which praised Princeton University for declining to invite New Jersey Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka to campus.
Since the Nixon-Reagan era, America has been scaring its people shirtless about "drug" users and their cracked-out violence.
It hasn't been the best couple of weeks for Ivy League administrative competence. Last Wednesday, the Big Red got a bit redder when staff in Cornell's admissions office managed to send a cheery "welcome to Cornell" email to 1,700 students ? 550 of whom it rejected in December.
The ghosts of Vietnam are being stirred. A recent congressional bill proposed by Charles Rangel, the Democratic Representative from Harlem, calls for the reinstitution of military conscription.
In response to Professor John Fleming's editorial ("Questions for the AIDS Campaign," March 3, 2003), we would like to explain why the Princeton chapter of Student Global AIDS Campaign ? a nationwide student organization with over eighty participating chapters ? decided to protest outside Sen.
As a faculty member still haunted by memories of the turbulent 1970s, I am alarmed by the ongoing efforts to kindle more intellectual curiosity among Princeton students.
For several months now our president has been telling us that, other nations unwilling, our armed forces are prepared to unilaterally invade Iraq in order to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
If you enjoyed watching election lawyers squirm in 2000, I guarantee you the Presidential contest of 2004 will not fail to disappoint.
The buzzword du jour on campus is "self-segregation" so I too will add my two cents. Although the recent discussions have centered on self-segregation by Asian Americans on campus, I hope to speak to a larger audience.
Thanking gankGoogle, MapQuest, Citysearch . . . People use search engines and web services without giving it a second thought.
A man named Amiri Baraka occupies the post of poet laureate in New Jersey. Appointed last August to a two-year term, Mr. Baraka might have finished out his tenure in quiet poetic reflection, if not for a particular poem he wrote after the Sept.
I always knew the day would come when the world finally gave duct tape its due. Apparently it has made the transition from a matter of patching leaky pipes to a matter of national security.
Only type A personalities could compete at religious traditions. Today, the morning after Fat Tuesday, Lent arrived comforted only be a couple Advil and the consideration of the absolute necessity of Wednesday lectures.
Responding to criticism: SUV emissions; affirmative action Dear Brian Beck,I appreciate the fan mail, but I am worried that you are not really reading my columns (or at least not all of the words in them) before you respond.
In the seventeenth century, Isaac Newton famously formulated his First Law of Motion, stating that in the absence of outside forces, an object at rest will stay at rest, and a body moving at a constant velocity in a straight line continues doing so indefinitely.
George Bush has ruined a perfectly good case for war. In October 2001, before the dust had settled in Afghanistan, I proposed in this column that the United States initiate war plans in Iraq.
