By Christina Cozzetto on July 9, 2009
I finally broke down and read Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer, over winter break this year. Curiosity was my entire reason for reading it, but that curiosity came from several different sources. One was how the series as a whole has been touted as the next Harry Potter, and how there seemed to be a significant [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on July 7, 2009
Dr. Daniel S. Harrop is a libertarian candidate for RI Representative in District 3, Providence. Dr. Harrop is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University and an Instructor in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. In addition to his faculty positions, Dr. Harrop also maintains a private practice of psychiatry. In an interview with [...]
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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, [...]
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By Stephen Beale on May 4, 2009
In this series, The Spectator will profile conservative intellectuals whose contributions to political thought are often ignored. Each essay will focus on the ideas, values, and sentiments of one particular individual, beginning with TS Eliot and continuing with other exemplars of the conservative tradition, such as Edmund Burke and John Adams.
In 1940 the great modernist [...]
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By Bryan Smith on January 28, 2009
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 [...]
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By Bryan Smith on October 24, 2008
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, [...]
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By Penny King on October 24, 2008
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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By Phileda Tennant on September 15, 2008
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 [...]
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