Princeton Free Speech News & Commentary

Letter to the Editor: Eisgruber’s administration has quietly eviscerated the free speech rule

May 18, 2023 1 min read

By Edward Yingling and Stuart Taylor, Jr.
Daily Princetonian

Excerpt: In its May 2 article entitled “A decade later: a split legacy for Eisgruber,” the Daily Princetonian erred in saying that “Edward Yingling ’70 and Stuart Taylor ’70, co-founders of Princetonians for Free Speech” (PFS) argued that Eisgruber’s decision to fire then-professor Joshua Katz would “destroy Princeton’s acclaimed free speech rule” — making the free speech rule one that would protect only a small subset of the speech that the rule’s language and intent clearly do protect.
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Scholars Debate John Witherspoon’s Contradictions on Slavery

May 10, 2023 1 min read

By Julie Bonette
Princeton Alumni Weekly

Excerpt: Why did founding father John Witherspoon voluntarily help Black people by tutoring them and offering religious services while owning slaves and declining to advocate for immediate abolition?
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Commentary: The Universalism of Mathematics and its detractors

Commentary: The Universalism of Mathematics and its detractors

May 08, 2023 1 min read

By Sergiu Klainerman (Higgins professor of mathematics at Princeton), Heterodox STEM, Substack

The scientific enterprise in United States is being seriously challenged by powerful anti-scientific trends. Postmodern relativism, under the pretense of anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-colonialism, anti-ableism... is undermining the very foundations of science as a search for truth.

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Free speech coordinators monitor as students hold ‘die-in’ outside BP conference

Free speech coordinators monitor as students hold ‘die-in’ outside BP conference

May 08, 2023 1 min read

by Miriam Waldvogel and Jeannie Kim, Daily Princetonian

At a conference on Friday, May 5, executives from oil and gas companies British Petroleum (BP) and members of the University’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI), an academic research program within the High Meadows Environmental Institute, were met the sight of students lying on the Julius Romo Rabinowitz (JRR) atrium floor with their mouths duct-taped and eyes closed.

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Courtesy of Princeton Tory

Eisgruber lauds University's free speech climate, pitches free speech to progressives in student event

May 03, 2023 1 min read

by Janny Eng, Daily Princetonian

President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 is “very proud” of University students’ commitment to free speech, he said at an event hosted on Saturday by the Princeton Progressive Law Society.

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We should all be ashamed of what the Senior Survey shows

We should all be ashamed of what the Senior Survey shows

April 30, 2023 1 min read

by Matthew Wilson '24, Daily Princetonian

 

On April 22, the Daily Princetonian released the results of its highly anticipated annual Senior Survey. This year’s Senior Survey simply captures a snapshot of Princeton’s marred free speech culture. Those looking for the cause of the decay can find some answers in the many institutional failures that have taken place during my three years here: an accomplished professor’s highly politicized firing

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