How Princeton Abandoned a Graduate Student Held Hostage by Iran
The case of Xiyue Wang.
January 25, 2022
How Princeton Abandoned a Graduate Student Held Hostage by Iran
The case of Xiyue Wang.
In 2016, Xiyue Wang, an American citizen and a PhD candidate at Princeton University, traveled to Tehran to improve his Persian, and to conduct archival research on the governance of border provinces in the 19th and early 20th centuries. A few months later he was arrested and sent to the Evin prison, where he was held for 40 months, most of which he spent in solitary confinement. He emerged thoroughly disabused of his former faith in the possibility of U.S conciliation with the Islam Republic. He had a similar change in attitude toward his university. Peter Theroux writes:
January 25, 2022
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A Brief History of Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories in the U.S.
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Hunting for Evidence of the Exodus in Egypt
Cultural appropriation.
Terry Teachout Was a Peerless Writer, but His Death Doesn’t Spell the End of Intelligent Conservative Writing about Culture
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