Opinion

Chinese Americans in the era of the “China virus”

It is absolutely possible for Princeton to uphold core academic principles such as freedom of speech and diversity of thought and values antithetical to the Chinese Communist Party, while also defending its students from misdirected race-based attacks and discrimination. 

Out of control: COVID-19 and disordered eating

When what you eat is your only sense of control, the chaos of pandemic is life-threatening. 

Racist research must be named, but often allowed

Even when some of us have figured out the right answers, we need those who disagree to put forward their best arguments so that we can try to communicate and make progress together.

As our new website goes live, we’re transforming, too

We’re thrilled to announce a new vision for our publication.

Saving our democracy: calls for reform to USG

USG’s low voter turnout rate leaves me with no choice but to declare it as an illegitimate government formed by a minority of students to speak on behalf of a supposed majority.

After the storm passes, a new Princeton

We should resist the impulse of going back to business as usual and embrace a growing movement to build a better society. 

Our move: let’s take the faculty letter forward

We must do some searching self-examination about what this moment in the history of the fight against racism asks of us.

Beyond Princeton’s getaway: prioritizing New York’s segregation problem

If we admire the city’s glamour, it’s only right that we study its underlying issues as well. 

In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity: a call to embrace our motto this fall

Let’s replace Bicker culture with service culture. 

Why Princeton should make fall 2020 discounts apply to expected family contribution

It is unfair for partial-aid families to continue to have the same financial burden placed on them for this inherently less valuable semester. 

Back on campus: how the sweet turned to bitter

Princeton will no doubt one day go back to the way it was, but until then, we have to be grateful for the small things and stop lamenting what we had, so that sooner rather than later, we can have it back again.

Why mutual respect makes free speech better

Our policies, however, protect Professor Katz’s freedom to say what he did, just as they protected the Black Justice League’s.

A Princeton alumni statement of support for the rights of Professor Joshua T. Katz

Regardless of whether the particular conclusions he draws are correct or not, or whether his chosen language is hyperbolic, he has made a worthwhile contribution that other members of the University community should engage with rather than condemn.

It’s not about me: Princeton, I’ll skip the gap year if you protect the most vulnerable

Even as the administration drags its feet in giving us answers or solving already apparent problems, we as students should still hold true to the principles of our motto: “In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity.”

Open letter on anti-racism to the Princeton School of Architecture

On bad-faith responses to Joshua Katz

It’s bad faith to treat Joshua Katz as a pariah, a racist, a Trump surrogate, and so on because one doesn’t want to engage with his objections. 

Do not equate Hitler and Wilson: a response to Mulrain

I don’t see why an author’s skin color should play any role in evaluating an argument. People, arguments, viewpoints, and listserv posts should be judged by their content, not by their color. 

Dear future scientists: the humanities are not a ‘hobby’

Science alone cannot combat this pandemic without substantial help from the humanities and a well-blended combination of both in an individual’s education equips them with lifelong tools to respond in the time of a crisis. 

We the revisionists

Antiracism is not about replacing or rewriting history. It is about the intellectual sincerity of learning different aspects of history. Princeton is not being asked to erase its curriculum, it is being beseeched to complete it. 

Princeton has a voting problem

Our “apolitical” campus seems to be bordering on apathetic. Although voting has never been more important, Princetonians are still lagging behind the rest of the country and even other universities in voter turnout. The 2020 elections are coming fast, and we should not — we cannot — stand behind the walls of the “bubble” while others decide our future for us.