The Princeton Tory is a magazine of conservative political thought written and published by Princeton University students. Founded in 1984 by Yoram Hazony , the magazine has played a role in various controversies, including a national debate about white privilege . Notable alumni associated with the magazine include United States Senator Ted Cruz and Wendy Kopp , the founder of Teach for America . Four editors have gone on to be Rhodes scholars .
16-532: In the early 1980s, there were several failed efforts to create a magazine with a conservative viewpoint at Princeton University, including the Madison Report , which had a circulation of 2,500 but folded due to financial difficulties. In October 1984, a group of students including Yoram Hazony and Amy Bix , began publishing the Princeton Tory , planning for six issues in the initial year. They sought to publish
32-478: A "thinking journal" and provide a forum for moderate and conservative viewpoints on a campus that was in their view dominated by left-wing politics . Hazony attributed the failure of the previous attempts at conservative publications to their tendency for sensationalism and mud-slinging . In contrast, the Tory was founded to highlight cogent argumentation with early issues addressing topics such as religion in politics,
48-507: A Dartmouth alumnus, in arguing that Princeton would not see similar political violence, was quoted in the Daily Princetonian as saying, "At Dartmouth there is a healthy activism on both the left and the right. At Princeton, politics masquerades as fashion. There are more conservatives who are more confident in their actions at Dartmouth. At Princeton, you only have the Tory , which is too cerebral to be considered." This critique promoted
64-481: A blog on philosophy, politics, Judaism, Israel, and higher education, called Jerusalem Letters . Hazony has published in outlets including The New York Times , Wall Street Journal , and American Affairs . Defunct Defunct Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other Hazony
80-498: A response from Tory publisher Dan Polisar: "D'Souza criticized the Tory for being 'too cerebral.' If that means that we do not favor using sledgehammers as a tool for political debate, then we do not object. We would rather demonstrate that the problems symbolized by shanties are exacerbated by divestment, as we did in our October issue, than to stage an attack on the symbols themselves... Campus conservatives are proud of this restraint, and should receive credit, not blame, for choosing
96-521: A staff writer for the Tory while a student. Corey Robin, a fellow member of the Princeton class of 1989, wrote critically of her association with a paper committed, in his view, to the selfishness of capitalism, and some of whose founders, Hazony and Polisar, he describes as "hardcore Zionists " with "storied if peculiar careers on the Israeli right." Yoram Hazony Yoram Reuben Hazony (born 1964)
112-427: A wicker basket business and emphasized education. Fortgang wrote, "While I haven't done everything for myself up to this point in my life, someone has sacrificed themselves so that I can lead a better life, but that is a legacy I am proud of. I have checked my privilege. And I apologize for nothing." Wendy Kopp, the founder of noted educational non-profit Teach for America , has come under some criticism for having been
128-454: Is a Modern Orthodox Jew and relates his views on Open Orthodoxy in an article published in 2014. In it, he states that he fears that Open Orthodoxy is acting as an ideological echo chamber in which any unapproved views are ridiculed and quashed without debate. Hazony describes his concern that elements of Open Orthodoxy have seemingly decided to accept all conclusions of academic Bible critics as indisputable fact, without even going through
144-663: Is an Israeli-American philosopher, Bible scholar , and political theorist . He is president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and serves as the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation . He has argued for national conservatism in his 2018 book The Virtue of Nationalism and 2022's Conservatism: A Rediscovery . Yoram Hazony was born in Rehovot , Israel, and moved with his family to Princeton, New Jersey , US. He
160-819: The Shalem Center in Jerusalem in 1994 and was president and then provost until 2012. He designed the curriculum for Shalem College , Israel's first liberal arts college , established in 2013. Hazony has served as director of the John Templeton Foundation 's project in Jewish Philosophical Theology and as a member of the Israel Council for Higher Education committee examining general studies programs in Israel's universities and colleges. He authors
176-484: The composition of the Supreme Court , and the university's endorsement of a nuclear freeze . In 1986, the Tory found itself in disagreement with future noted conservative Dinesh D'Souza . At Dartmouth College , student staff members of the conservative Dartmouth Review had taken sledgehammers to a shanty town set up by protesters calling for divestment from South Africa over its Apartheid policies. D'Souza,
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#1732869989518192-732: The historical body of nationalist thought. In a review for the Tel Aviv Review of Books , Yair Wallach argues that Hazony's 2020 book, A Jewish State: Herzl and the Promise of Nationalism , is characterised by " intellectual dishonesty ", in part for presenting a selective account of Theodor Herzl 's understanding of Zionism and nationalism. Hazony organized and spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in England in May 2023. He told
208-404: The motions of investigating whether these conclusions are true. Hazony is an outspoken Judeo - nationalist and has written that nationalism uniquely provides "the collective right of a free people to rule themselves". However, several critics of Hazony's 2018 book, The Virtue of Nationalism , maintain it is both theoretically inconsistent or incoherent and that it bears little relation to
224-593: The nerve I displayed in offering an opinion rooted in a personal Weltanschauung ." The essay was picked up by Time magazine , led to an appearance on Fox News and caused a firestorm of criticism from the left and support from the right. Fortgang made use of his own family's history, with a grandfather exiled to Siberia , a grandmother sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , and a great-grandmother and five great-aunts and uncles who were shot in an open grave outside their hometown. His grandfather and father built
240-566: The pen over the sledgehammer." In April 2014, Princeton freshman Tal Fortgang penned an essay in the Tory entitled, "Checking My Privilege: Character as the Basis of Privilege." Fortgang wrote the essay in response to being told by a classmate, after expressing his views on welfare and the national debt, to " check his privilege ." He stated, "The phrase, handed down by my moral superiors, descends recklessly, like an Obama-sanctioned drone, and aims laserlike at my pinkish-peach complexion, my maleness, and
256-760: Was raised and educated in the United States and returned to live in Israel after finishing university. Hazony received his BA from Princeton University in East Asian studies in 1986 and his PhD from Rutgers University in political philosophy in 1993. While a junior at Princeton, he founded the Princeton Tory , a magazine for moderate and conservative thought. He is the brother of David Hazony and Daniel Hazony. He married Yael Fulton, an American whom he met at Princeton, and she moved to Israel with him. The couple live in Jerusalem and have nine children. Hazony founded
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