Category: Politics

The Military-Emotional Complex

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

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Searching for Truth

Trump, Objectivity, and the Media

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Voices from the Women’s March

Eight Princeton students reflect on protest, identity, and Drumpf’s inauguration.

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Nixon’s Ghost

What separates Trump from his predecessors is his willingness, and the willingness of his supporters, to give up any pretense of subtly or slyness. Trump’s campaign, despite what the headlines say, is not unprecedented in this way. It has simply set at center stage the racial politics that Republicans have long trafficked in but preferred to dress in finer rhetorical disguises.

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Workers’ Town Hall

“Service workers are fundamentally underpaid in light of the rising cost of living in New Jersey. The wages that they receive, while on an hourly rate higher than most other service workers, do not reflect the fact that they live in the fifth most expensive state in the country… Change is possible, but only through collective action. We hope that the student body will turn out on May 9th to demonstrate to the University that the community stands in solidarity with workers.”

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The End of Moria?

Looking back on migration-crisis reporting in Greece as a college student.

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This Election Thing

On character judgments & choosy politics.

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The New Jersey Border

How the town of Princeton and other New Jersey cities just shy of sanctuary status negotiate safety for undocumented immigrants.

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All About the Money: On Fiscal Republicans’ Anti-Choice Rhetoric

A Nass writer speculates about what the political right stands to gain from overturning Roe v. Wade.

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The Incremental Approach

A look at the astonishing career of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

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Leftism in Limbo

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

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The Problem of Power and the Prince

“Eisgruber’s case, while morally objectionable, is at least understandable in light of his position as University president. As one who answers to several conflicted parties, he must at times make concessions that, while consistently appealing to the least satisfying intersection of opposing parties, keep at least some subset of people happy. The Prince, unlike Eisgruber, is (supposedly) not a spokesperson for the University.”

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