By Sean Quigley on May 6, 2010
As a member of a family that has been Presbyterian for many centuries, and as one who regularly communicates at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal on George Street, I feel comfortable writing on behalf of orthodox Protestants.
I am just a layman, to be sure, and make no claim to clerical expertise; but in addressing the [...]
Posted in International
By Sean Quigley on July 7, 2009
Though I wish that I could write, “We are all elitists now,” the string of letters and columns which reacted negatively to Anish Mitra ’10’s recent column (The Brown Daily Herald, “A little elitism goes a long way,” Feb. 27) confirms that populism is still in vogue.
It seems, in fact, that the Sirens of democracy, [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged May 2009, Volume VII Number IV
By Sean Quigley on January 28, 2009
Okay, I must admit to my infatuation with the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the high culture which he often described with tantalizing detail – hence, the title. But my words here should not appeal solely to those persons who wish that they could count Amory Blaine and Nick Carraway among their friends.
You might [...]
Posted in Local | Tagged January 2009, Volume VII Number III
By Sean Quigley on October 24, 2008
Flummoxed. That seems to be the most appropriate word to describe my mental state when, this past summer, I first learned of the word, “Cougar”. A quick search on Urban Dictionary could define this rather nasty term – nasty in the sense not only of its inherent derisiveness, but also of the type of behavior [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By Sean Quigley on September 15, 2008
PublicAffairs, 1152pp. Forty Dollars.
After reading this tome on Richard Nixon,written by Conrad Black, one can only regret that Richard Nixon’s legacy seems forever to be colored by the Watergate affair. For not only did he make his mark as an accomplished politician and statesman, but also Nixon was an exemplary student and son.
Nixon graduated third [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Sean Quigley on May 8, 2008
In the two years that I have been attending Brown, one aspect of the school’s environment has been particularly annoying, and even infuriating at times. And while I am tempted to write that the statist impulses and cries of many fellow students are the cause of this deep-felt annoyance, such is actually not the [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Sean Quigley on April 17, 2008
Recently, The Brown Daily Herald published a letter (“Attack on Chafee unmerited,” Mar. 3), penned by Matthew Lieber GS, which took issue with several criticisms that I made of former Senator Lincoln Chafee ‘75, in an editorial (“There are Yankee Republicans, and then there is Lincoln Chafee,” Feb. 27). The letter deserves a pointed [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
By Sean Quigley on March 21, 2008
Twenty-Seven Dollars and Ninety-Five Cents, 310 pp., Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s latest book, Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works, is a quick read with an enlightened approach to the countless problems which our nation faces in the present, and in the rapidly approaching future. More [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged March 2008, Volume VI Number V
By Sean Quigley on February 20, 2008
It hardly needs to be proven, beyond the years of personal experience which we each possess, that human beings are creatures of habit, that we often prefer the humdrum of daily bourgeois life to the uncertainties of political activity and civic action. The present writer is no exception to this general trend – it would [...]
Posted in National | Tagged February 2008, Volume VI Number IV
By Sean Quigley on December 6, 2007
On the weekend of November 9th, a group of Brown University students ventured down to Princeton, New Jersey, to attend a conference on the ever-intriguing issue of “The Christian Worldview and the Academy.” Sponsored and organized by The Witherspoon Institute, the conference was chiefly held in a Princeton University lecture hall, and the attendees were generously afforded a [...]
Posted in National | Tagged December 2007, Volume VI Number III
