Category: Politics

No Filter

There’s no reason that competence and authenticity should be odds with one another. Yet many of the ways that we read authenticity—Bernie Sanders’ oversized suits, per say, or Trump’s disregard for political correctness—do defy the codes through which we usually measure a candidate’s fitness for office.

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The Incremental Approach

A look at the astonishing career of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

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I Cannot Take it Anymore

Facing the forces of Trump.

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Robert George, Polish Law, and the Obsession with Discourse

“It is fantastic that Professor George supports free speech and open discourse—his track record on that subject speaks for itself—and he is correct that this law’s criminalization of speech should be loudly condemned; however, it is not enough to defend free speech by itself.”

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Banning the Box

Inside the coalition aiming to eliminate Princeton University’s questioning of applicants’ criminal histories, and the broader decarceration movement.

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The Strand

“My fellow Americans…”

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The Myth of the Sunday Sanctuary

A reflection on the unavoidable relationship between politics and sports.

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Political Allergies

Spring semester means cheap beer, class treachery, and primary elections.

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Hotovely’s Excursion in the Orange Bubble

“Princeton is a university that cares deeply about free speech. However, Princeton, much like the CJL, at least suggests the idea that it does believe in limits to free speech.”

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Rest is Peace

Reflections on a national tragedy, on a fractured window in a palace in time.

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A Book Review of Ted Cruz’s Thesis

I was also intrigued by what a 21-year-old Cruz had to say about the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the focus of his thesis and, to his credit, a rarely discussed topic in the academic literature. Because it’s clear that Ted Cruz is — and always has been — a pretty smart guy.

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