By Sean Quigley on October 26, 2007
Invariably, protests seem to be viewed as the domain of left-leaning individuals – “taking it to the streets” has, for quite some time, not been regarded as a conservative tactic for effecting change or, perhaps more accurately, preventing change. If asked why protests are not common among the right, a conservative would probably respond by [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2007, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VI Number II
By Sean Quigley on September 9, 2007
The Reverend Jerry Falwell, regardless of whether one despises or praises him for doing so, has left an indelible mark on the culture, history, and politics of the American nation. From the founding of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in 1956, to the establishment of Liberty University in 1971, to the creation of the Moral [...]
Posted in National | Tagged September 2007, Volume VI Number I
By Sean Quigley on May 1, 2007
Upon first deciding to pen a piece on Brown’s anti-war group, Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), I really did not know what to expect from my fieldwork. I had met some of its members in other contexts before – in some cases, even before I knew that these people were left-leaning – and so I assumed, [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged May 2007, Volume V Number VII
By Sean Quigley on February 1, 2007
August 19, 1976, deservedly, was a landmark date in recent Republican Party history. On this day, in Kansas City, Kansas, Ronald W. Reagan came excruciatingly close to accomplishing the unthinkable—he almost took the party nomination from a one-term incumbent president, Gerald Ford. Snatching up 47.4 % of the delegates’ votes (1070 out of [...]
Posted in National | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Sean Quigley on February 1, 2007
A Book Review of Manliness, by Harvey Mansfield
Yale University Press, 304 pp. Twenty-Seven Dollars, Fifty Cents.
I believe that politically incorrect is the best way to describe Professor Harvey C. Mansfield of Harvard University. And he’s damn proud to be. You know, in a boastful sort of way. A manly sort of way. [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Sean Quigley on November 16, 2006
Dear Mr. Kennedy,
In the last issue of the Brown Spectator, I wrote a piece about you, titled “RFK, Jr.: Another Joke from the Kennedy Family.” I was even lucky enough to have my article make the front cover. And how fortuitous the placement of that article was, seeing as you gave the [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged November 2006, Thanksgiving, Volume V Number IV
By Sean Quigley on November 16, 2006
Friday, 3 November, marked the annual Sex Power God ritual presented by the Queer Alliance. There was heightened security. A melee of barely-clothed young men and women. Energetic frat guys with signs demanding attention. Queer Alliance members trying to shield the lascivious activities from the outside world. And EMS teams on call to treat dangerously [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged brown university sex power god, November 2006, o reilly sex power god, sex power god, Thanksgiving, Volume V Number IV
By Sean Quigley on October 20, 2006
With his most recent book, The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life, Ramesh Ponnuru has documented the truth that we knew all to well. The Democratic Party, with help from the biased media and activist courts, has been hijacked by social liberals bent on thrusting their [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III
By Sean Quigley on October 20, 2006
He is the perennial punchline. We have all heard a multitude of good jokes about Robert Kennedy Jr., most especially the more serious one about how every day he metaphorically spits on the grave of his uncle, JFK, by continuing to tarnish the Kennedy name that once stood for greatness, but which now stands for [...]
Posted in Brown University, Lead | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III
By Sean Quigley on October 6, 2006
Where did I go wrong?” my father jokingly asks every time he and I engage in a serious debate about politics. As a fairly strong Democrat who raised a robustly conservative Republican for a younger son (me) and a moderately conservative Republican for an older son (my brother), my father was stampeded by a herd [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
