The Brown University Spectator:A Journal of Conservative and Libertarian Thought

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Libertarians and McCain

By Peter Catsimpiris • May 8th, 2008 • Category: National

The outlook of the 2008 presidential race is hardly a dream come true for libertarians. Then again, we haven’t really had a viable candidate (other than maybe Reagan and Goldwater) in post-FDR Amerika. While the prospect of one of three great luminaries who’ve made their names and fortunes squabbling over how worst to spend your [...]



Not nice, but not torture

By Peter Catsimpiris • Mar 21st, 2008 • Category: Letters to the Editor

To the Editor:
Reading “Against Waterboarding: A Question of Values” in February’s Spectator, I was dismayed that Mr. Halenda does not explain exactly which “values” urge the prohibition of this infamous interrogation tactic, a failure leading to his muddled nonsolution to this ethical dilemma that ultimately decries what is doubtless a reasonable means of foiling terrorist [...]



Mr. Catsimpiris responds

By Peter Catsimpiris • Feb 20th, 2008 • Category: Response

Dear Mr. Rosenbaum:
I’d like to thank you for offering feedback to my article and to apologize for those aspects of it that seemed “offensive “; I assure you I never intended to offend anyone, but merely to provide a robust apology of the Christian worldview in an academic context.
I’ll move now to respond to a [...]



Christianity in the Academy: Why Christianity is a Rational Scientific Worldview

By Peter Catsimpiris • Dec 6th, 2007 • Category: Brown University

Despite the encouraging success of the Christian Worldview Conference held at Princeton on the weekend of November 9th, such a gathering of secular academicians, theologians, and clergymen joined around the cause of Christendom in the ivory tower is notable primarily because it is exceptional. In a nation in which our oldest and most esteemed universities [...]



Kidney Clarity

By Peter Catsimpiris • Oct 26th, 2007 • Category: National

Peter Catsimpiris - Contributing Editor
The monumental confusion surrounding the issue of organ sales in recent discussions that have appeared in The Brown Daily Herald can be avoided by examining the values held in common by members of both sides of this debate. We would all like for two things to happen: first, we would [...]



. . . With Liberty and Justice for All: Libertarianism in the American Political Landscape

By Peter Catsimpiris • May 1st, 2007 • Category: National

To the general public, conservatives and libertarians are bound to seem bedfellows – both groups adamantly support smaller government, decentralization of federal power, and lower and fewer taxes, to name just a few subjects. And as apparent allies with conservatives on countless national issues, compounded by the trifling number of Americans self-identifying as libertarians, we [...]