By Travis Rowley on July 9, 2009
The Coen Brothers’ 2007 film No Country For Old Men revolves around the tale of several young men engaged in a violent race for a satchel of cash. Tommy Lee Jones plays an aging sheriff investigating the depressing trail of bloodshed, markings that inform the old man that the customs and morals that guided his [...]
Posted in National | Tagged May 2009, Volume VII Number IV
By Travis Rowley on January 28, 2009
You may have seen the billboard hovering above Route 95. “Rhode Islanders, Had Enough? Do Something About It,” instructs the opening advertisement for Transform Rhode Island, a recently launched organization that aims to bolster reform efforts through a strategy of communication.
Or perhaps you read the Sept. 29 article in The Journal (“Billboard ads have links [...]
Posted in Local | Tagged January 2009, Volume VII Number III
By Travis Rowley on September 15, 2008
Consequences are the results of choices. So, as Rhode Islanders confront a half-billion dollar budget deficit, they should reflect upon the decisions that caused their State’s economic distress. After all, the State’s current fiscal condition was never a fated scenario. Alternate policies could have been employed.
So what decisions led to Rhode Island’s economic crisis?
The easy [...]
Posted in Local | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Travis Rowley on May 8, 2008
The United States, a nation long thought of as being comprised of a unique citizenry, who dedicated themselves to revolutionary propositions before subscribing to much else, offers much to reflect upon regarding its remarkable national character, and much to ponder in terms of how such a formidable society could founder.
Over the course of more [...]
Posted in Local | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Travis Rowley on December 6, 2007
Oh, you Muslims everywhere, sever the ties of their nation, tear them apart, ruin their economy, instigate against their corporations, destroy their embassies, attack their interests, sink their ships, and shoot down their airplanes. Kill them in land, at sea, and in the air. Kill them wherever you find them.” —Sheikh Abdel Rahman
While nobody enjoys [...]
Posted in International | Tagged December 2007, Volume VI Number III
By Travis Rowley on October 26, 2007
“We have to consider the need for additional troops to be in Iraq, to take out the militias and stabilize Iraq…I would say 20,000 to 30,000—for the specific purpose of making sure those militias are dismantled, working in concert with the Iraqi military.”
— (incoming) House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D), December 2006
“We don’t have [...]
Posted in National | Tagged October 2007, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VI Number II
By Travis Rowley on October 20, 2006
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free…it expects what never was and never will be.”
—Thomas Jefferson
On September 26th, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) released the findings of an unprecedented review of higher education’s efficiency in increasing student knowledge of America’s history and crucial institutions. The study, conducted by the University of Connecticut’s Department [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III
By Travis Rowley on October 6, 2006
Below is a small sample of responses I received from Brown students in response to my book, Out of Ivy. The big point here is not the vulgarity, but the hate. And also the inclination to avoid discourse, and spit vitriolic insults meant to make me feel dumb and bigoted. Ironically, this is the Left [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
By Travis Rowley on January 1, 2006
Below is an excerpt from Out of Ivy: How a Liberal Ivy Created a Committed Conservative. The author of this forthcoming book is Travis Rowley, a local Rhode Islander, and former captain of the Brown football team. Rowley describes Out of Ivy as a “damaging tell-all of Brown University, and harsh appraisal of radical liberalism.” [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged January 2006, Volume IV Number I
By Travis Rowley on March 1, 2005
One of my early encounters with liberalism at Brown University wasn’t even on campus. I met a girl while I was at a bar called the Yellow Kitten on Block Island, a small old-style colonial island off the coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island, my hometown. The area is a popular tourist spot in the summer, [...]
Posted in Essay | Tagged March 2005, Volume III Number I
