Open Letter to President Eisgruber - Princetonians for Free Speech

An Eminent Civil Libertarian’s letter to President Eisgruber on "the Depth of my Disappointment"

Dear President Eisgruber, April 05, 2023 5 min read

Dear President Eisgruber,

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)...

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Nadine Strossen’s Call to Action

Nadine Strossen’s Call to Action

By Ethan Hicks ‘26 March 24, 2023 2 min read

By Ethan Hicks ‘26

On Tuesday, March 21, Professor Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, and Nadine Strossen, former president of the ACLU, sat down to discuss the history and modern state of free speech in America in their joint talk “Civil Liberties: On Campus and Beyond.” 

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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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Commentary: Wokeness in all its self-flattering moral vanity comes for a statue at Princeton

by George F. Will January 06, 2023 1 min read

by George F. Will

Squalls of indignation gust across campuses so frequently that they seem merely performative — synthetic, perfunctory, uninteresting. Princeton’s current contretemps, however, fascinatingly illustrates how wokeness, which lacks limiting principles, limits opposition to itself. 

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