For whatever reason there was a tremendous amount of anticipation surrounding the most recent meeting of the Corporation. Prior to this year I barely knew what the Corporation was, never knew when it met, and, to be honest, thought that this is the way it should be. I cannot overemphasize that the Corporation is doing [...]

Over the course of the last month, Brown has witnessed some of the stupidest, most offensive, ignorant, and downright disrespectful protests in its storied history. The Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, put on two demonstrations that still have me scratching my head.
On September 12th, SDS pranced around campus, banging pots and pans, [...]

Doubleday, 256 pp. Twenty-three dollars and ninety-five cents
Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam have a strategy to attract working-class Americans to the Republican Party: become Democrats. These two young conservatives and editors of the Atlantic write that the American Dream is increasingly out of reach for the working classes. Since the resurgence of [...]

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 [...]

PublicAffairs, 1152pp. Forty Dollars.
After reading this tome on Richard Milhous Nixon,written by Conrad Black, one can only regret that 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.
He graduated third [...]

One quiet country evening, I convinced my trusty amigo Travis to join me in the long country drive to the nearest picture show to see Pineapple Express. “So what’s this movie about?”,Travis asked. Eager to appear hip to someone fresh from a summer at UT Austin, an Indie-culture-saturated university, I pretended to have heard Pineapple [...]

William F. Buckley, Jr., passed away on Wednesday, February 27th, marking the end of an era, as he was the preeminent intellectual of the post-Word War II American conservative movement. In recent years, the term “conservative” has lost an absolute definition, and competing factions have intensely debated its “true” meaning. At the close [...]

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 [...]

Primary Mistake: How the Washington Republican Establishment Lost Everything in 2006 (and Sabotaged My Senatorial Campaign), by Steve Laffey
(Sentinel, 212 pp., $26)
The positions staked out by Lincoln Chafee during his eight years in the US Senate could inspire enough well-deserved rebuke to fill hundreds of these pages. Alas, a small sampling will have to suffice. [...]

He was born in Moscow, Russia. I was born right here in Divine Providence, U.S.A. But we share the same date of birth. Israel Helms came to Rhode Island and to my neighborhood in 1955, having survived both World War II and the Stalinist Soviet Union, the totalitarian cruelties of fascism/Nazism and [...]