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Ryne Weiss
FIRE
Excerpt: The first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one. In his new book Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right, Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber reports on FIRE’s data on free speech and First Amendment norms on campus while making no effort to understand it and misusing the data of others. In other words, he’s skipped that first step — and now Princeton is tumbling down the staircase.
IMHO, what is so striking is the alternative universe in which Eisgruber resides. It is one in which, for some time now, he fails to see the damage he is doing to Princeton’s and the university’s reputation, combined with the alienation of other university presidents. Seemingly, the environment in which Eisgruber resides contains an oxygen level similar to that at 15,000 feet. Eisgruber appears to be balancing himself at the top of a sharply pointed obelisk, alone and vulnerable to prevailing winds.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-princeton-presidents-evasions
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/princeton-president-melts-down-rejects-responsibility-for-campus-anti-semitism/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-university-presidents/683803/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/03/the-disqualifying-hypocrisy-of-princetons-president/
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/08/11/the-university-presidents-who-want-to-fix-universities-before-they-get-fixed/
https://www.city-journal.org/article/princeton-university-president-christopher-eisgruber-anti-semitism-racial-discrimination
FIRE was founded by two of my Princeton ’64 classmates who went on to Harvard, where one received a law degree (Harvey Silverglate) and the other a history PhD (Alan Kors). I am proud to call them friends.
By Tal Fortgang ‘17
What is an Ivy League university? The simplicity of the question is deceiving. Everyone knows what Harvard is. Except increasingly, no one does – not the students who attend, and certainly not the administrators who shape the institution, thereby answering that question every day.
Isaac Barsoum
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: On Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, Sunrise Princeton, alongside the Princeton Progressive Coalition, organized a rally of more than 100 demonstrators. We called on the University to act as a leader by defending life-or-death climate research, divesting from weapons manufacturers to end the genocide in Palestine, protecting immigrants and international students, and safeguarding academic freedom in a time when rising authoritarianism threatens progress across the world.
As a lead organizer for this rally, I learned an important lesson: Princeton students care a lot about progressive change, and are willing to publicly display their support because they’re optimistic that their actions can make a difference on a policy level. They just feel like they’re too damn busy.
Annabel Green
Princetonians for Free Speech
Excerpt: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s debut 1920 novel, This Side of Paradise, follows protagonist Amory Blaine, who enjoys a particularly affluent life as an undergraduate at Princeton. Fitzgerald writes of Princeton:
Doug Hensler '69
November 05, 2025
Corrected:
IMHO, what is so striking is the alternative universe in which Eisgruber resides. It is one in which, for some time now, he fails to see the damage he is doing to Princeton and the university’s reputation, combined with the alienation of other university presidents. Seemingly, the environment in which Eisgruber resides contains an oxygen level similar to that at 15,000 feet. Eisgruber appears to be balancing himself at the top of a sharply pointed obelisk, alone and vulnerable to prevailing winds.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-princeton-presidents-evasions
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/princeton-president-melts-down-rejects-responsibility-for-campus-anti-semitism/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-university-presidents/683803/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/03/the-disqualifying-hypocrisy-of-princetons-president/
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/08/11/the-university-presidents-who-want-to-fix-universities-before-they-get-fixed/
https://www.city-journal.org/article/princeton-university-president-christopher-eisgruber-anti-semitism-racial-discrimination