The Anscombe Affair, Part I

by Hal Parker | December 16, 2007 at 4:43 pm

The Anscombe Affair, Part ILast Friday Francisco Nava (P’09), a prominent member of anti-modernity-club the Anscombe Society, was taken into an alley and beaten senseless, the culmination of a series of threatening letters which began in mid-October. Only a day before Brandon McGinley (P’ 10) had this to say about the letters in a Prince op/ed:

These tactics are part of a pattern designed to silence members of our community who speak out against the hookup culture and sexual liberationist ideology.

Take that, self-righteous hunger-strikers. Strangely, the menacing letters started not after Nava’s infamous condom-condemnation, “Princeton’s Latex Lies,” but instead, according to McGinley, after he “spoke up in class and precept” on Anscombe-y topics. The first message ominously informed Nava via his Frist mailbox, “YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE WRONG CAUSE.”

Soon they came to do more than inform, however. Two days ago we learned that Nava, en route to a house in Princeton Township of a local student he tutors, was dragged into an alley and attacked by two assailants.

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