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?
By Sergiu Klainerman (Higgins professor of mathematics at Princeton), Heterodox STEM, SubstackMay 08, 20231 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.
by Bill Hewitt '74, The Tiger Roars, Substack
I write to bring to your certain and inescapable attention grave, inexplicable, and ongoing gross misrepresentations of Princeton’s John Witherspoon by the Princeton and Slavery Project, for which you are project director. I request your prompt and thorough undertakings to rectify these grievous wrongs — not simply to Witherspoon, but to all who have looked to the Project for trustworthy information and understanding about Witherspoon’s relation to slavery. Their reliance on the Project and trust in the imprimatur of Princeton University itself have been wantonly betrayed.April 28, 20231 min read
Eldar Shafir and Uri Hasson, Daily Princetonian
April 25, 20231 min read
by Eldar Shafir and Uri Hasson, Daily Princetonian
We write this to alert faculty, students, and the administration of the appointment of Ronen Shoval as Research Scholar and Lecturer in Politics, and to invite us to reflect on who we want to appoint to teach our students.
Much of the debate over the possible removal of the statue of John Witherspoon from the Princeton campus is based on information about Witherspoon’s involvement with slavery and the debate over abolition contained in the University’s Princeton & Slavery Project (the Project).
You and I have never met. Nor are we likely to meet because it has been very rare that I attend my class reunions. However, I have followed your career as President of Princeton, because I read the Princeton Alumni Weekly (which is, of course, no longer published weekly)...
