Princeton Free Speech News & Commentary

Princeton Senior Arrested in Connection with Jan. 6 Capitol Riot

Princeton Senior Arrested in Connection with Jan. 6 Capitol Riot

by Julian Hatman-Sigall and Bridget O’Neill Daily Princetonian On March 14, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Larry Giberson ’23 was arrested in relation to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Giberson, a politics major from Manahawkin, N.J., was charged with civil disorder, a felony, and related misdemeanor offenses, according to a DOJ report. March 14, 2023 1 min read

by Julian Hatman-Sigall and Bridget O’Neill, Daily Princetonian

On March 14, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Larry Giberson ’23 was arrested in relation to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Giberson, a politics major from Manahawkin, New Jersey...

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Bias Reporting’ System is Stifling Campus

March 11, 2023 March 11, 2023 1 min read

March 11, 2023

By Matthew Wilson

The university’s bias-reporting system utterly fails to uphold the school’s stated commitment to ‘protect and promote free expression.’

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Open Letter to President Eisgruber and Princeton's Board of Trustees

Open Letter to President Eisgruber and Princeton's Board of Trustees

To: President Eisgruber March 01, 2023 4 min read

We are writing to you on behalf of Princetonians for Free Speech (PFS) to bring to your attention important new information relating to the petition to remove the statue of John Witherspoon from its prominent place on the plaza near Firestone Library and the Chapel.
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A Fuller Measure of Witherspoon on Slavery

A Fuller Measure of Witherspoon on Slavery

Kevin DeYoung January 26, 2023 11 min read

by Kevin DeYoung, PrincetoniansForFreeSpeech.org

As of the online publication of this essay, Princeton University is still deciding what to do with Witherspoon...

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Commentary: Deceitful Statistics Prop up the Princeton Free Speech Panic

Commentary: Deceitful Statistics Prop up the Princeton Free Speech Panic

by Eleanor Clemans-Cope, The Daily Princetonian January 18, 2023 1 min read

by Eleanor Clemans-Cope, The Daily Princetonian

George F. Will GS ’68 recently took to the pages of the Washington Post, where he is a regular columnist, to announce to the world that wokeness at Princeton is destroying free speech.

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Princeton University Should Not ‘Cancel’ John Witherspoon

Princeton University Should Not ‘Cancel’ John Witherspoon

by Stuart Taylor, Jr., Co-founder, Princetonians for Free Speech Published in National Review After the woke take down Witherspoon, if they succeed, who might be next? Maybe President (of the United States) James Madison, Founding genius and drafter of the First Amendment? A Princeton graduate (1771), Madison stayed on an extra year to study under Witherspoon and lends his name to the university’s James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service. He had far more than two slaves. Would Princeton spare the two iconic paintings of George Washington — with his hand on a cannon and with the College of New Jersey, as Princeton was then known, in the background during the Battle of Princeton, and at ease after winning it — by Charles Willson Peale, who himself experienced the battle firsthand? January 14, 2023 1 min read

by Stuart Taylor, Jr., for National Review

After the woke take down Witherspoon, if they succeed, who might be next? Maybe President (of the United States) James Madison, Founding genius and drafter of the First Amendment?

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