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Kim Meets Pope

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò pushes Kim Davis through a set of oak double doors. She teeters on her kitten heels, stumbling into a dark, velvety interior. She blinks, swirls of smoke stinging her eyes and clouding her vision, and sneezes. … Read More

by Hadley Newton on October 17, 2015October 17, 2015

A Better Course Guide

“MNG 105: What to Expect When You’re Expectorating” and other courses.

by staff on December 5, 2013December 7, 2013

Wondering Why?

Dear Wise Wendy,
How do you snookle a pookieboogle?
Snook-Curious

by Wise Wendy on April 23, 2009March 17, 2013

Georgia, Seen From Ukraine

For Poland, Belorussia, and Ukraine, then, Russia remains a hungry, imperialist bear.

by Masha Shpolberg on October 16, 2008March 17, 2013

Princeton’s Ten Hottest Freshmen

What follows is an unranked list of ten of the most beautiful freshmen at Princeton, as chosen by us and based on a survey of approximately four upperclassmen girls.

by Eliza Mott, Hadley Newton, Olivia Lloyd, Sophie Parker-Rees on October 24, 2015November 15, 2015

Missed Connections

Recollected.

by Elizabeth Lian on October 17, 2012March 22, 2013

Ardently, Maddeningly, Gloriously Tempted

All men lusted for the firebrand they called Flaming Tina, famed for the molten fire in her hair — and for the hot temper running fierce through the noble Scblood of Lady Valentina Kennedy. Forced into marriage with the fearsome warrior of an enemy clan, Tina vowed to use her wild beauty to gain mastery over Lord Ramsay Douglas. Women hungered to be pressed against his steely chest … and men feared the brawn and rage of Black Ram Douglas. Ram swore he would make the defiant Valentina a dutiful wife after he had broken her hellion’s pride. But the girl he set out to tame became the woman who taught him what it meant to be ardently, maddeningly, gloriously tempted.”

by Emily Dunlay on April 2, 2009March 17, 2013

Wine in a Box

A natural history of Franzia.

by Lily Offit on October 3, 2012March 17, 2013

The Hillary Spectacle

We have bought into Hillary’s image; reality has been supplanted by a flimsy representation of what we might like it to be. But the thing is, the representation sells: the spectacle becomes not just a collection of images, but a “social relationship between people that is mediated by images.”

by Elizabeth Winkler on April 17, 2008March 17, 2013

That Precept Kid Reviews Recipes

This bark is not trying to be anything than what it really is, something that plagues so many holiday desserts.

by Zach Cohen on February 21, 2016

Jewish Wisdom

Dear Aron & Josh, Someone in my frat is making me fast for a week. I really don’t want to drop out of the frat but I don’t know if I can make it a week with just water. Help?

by Aron Wander, Joshua Leifer on October 18, 2014October 19, 2014

The 2016 Election According to Some People in Your Precept

Jen is president of Princeton Young Democrats and Woody Woo Major, ’18. She interned for an assistant to the assistant of a staffer in Elizabeth Warren’s Massachusetts office, is “with her,” metaphorically and literally; she wears a locket with Hilary’s face in it at all times.

by Katherine Shifke on October 24, 2016July 21, 2017


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