Massachusetts, once so known for outpacing its neighbors in government theft that it was labeled Taxachusetts, can brag about its comparative improvement – at least to other New England states. But its proclivity for holidays – Bunker Hill Day, Patriots Day, Evacuation Day, Juneteenth – still outpaces Rhode Island, which holds stubbornly to only VJ [...]

The Janus Lecture Series at Brown concluded with an Earth Day theme presenting an unlikely triumvirate of socio-economic thinkers discussing climate change. Global Warming wreaked havoc upon the presentation with glorious spring weather filling the Pembroke Green rather than the lecture at Alumnae Hall (although weather-norming could only report that the event was quite well [...]

Drawing its seminal inspiration from the William F. Buckley, Jr., of the 18th century, Edmund Burke, the conservative movement might be thought to have all but foresworn revolutionary intent. Although known for his stinging critique of the French Revolution’s abandonment of civil protections for life and property, Burke was, nonetheless, a philosophical supporter of the [...]

“Let us begin with a clock.”(pg. 1)
Thus commences the angst ridden report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, regarding the family clock of Admiral Esek Hopkins. His captaining of the slave voyage of the Sally overshadows to the point of nullity his service to the nation as the first commander of [...]

Noted atheist philosopher Daniel Dennett was spreading his ‘gospel’ at Harvard recently, i.e., his new book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a natural phenomenon. Dennett opened ironically by embracing naturalism, a religion rooted in natural phenomenon. He even encouraged donations to the lecture’s sponsor, the Center for Naturalism. This immediately brought to mind what might [...]

The Reagan Revolution has been properly feted of late as its architect bid a final farewell to the field of battle. Given that one says nothing but good of the dead unless they were President, his critics have been remarkably quiet – largely limiting their contributions to suggestions that the Soviet Union would have collapsed [...]