In response to: Exhibit Canceled After Dispute Between Library and Donor
Current issue
November 2024
Princetonians lead think tanks; the perfect football season of 1964; Nobel in physics.
May I ask Rocky Semmes '79 if the equation "uniqueness = honor" is somewhere engraved in stone (irony intended) in Arlington National Cemetery? The unique arrangement of Confederate headstones only conveys distinctness, not honor. Distinction can be perceived as either praise or condemnation, as anyone who has experienced life as a minority can testify.
Meanwhile, others claiming moral high ground have complained about the integration of Confederate and Union veterans in the list of alumni war dead engraved in Nassau Hall's vestibule.
The fact that cancel culture appears to take both sides on the same issue should give readers pause. I highly recommend the online letter by Carl Heimowitz ’64 on this topic, citing Lincoln.