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, [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
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 [...]
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 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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By Nathaniel Brown on March 21, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged March 2008, Volume VI Number V
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 Christopher McAuliffe on December 6, 2007
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. [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged December 2007, Volume VI Number III
By Michael Fink on October 26, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged October 2007, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VI Number II
By Lindsey Meyers on September 9, 2007
Michael Moore is to modern America what the sophists were to ancient Athens. In sum and substance, Moore is an expert in devising superficially plausible, but ultimately specious, arguments.
However, where the sophists made their devious arguments in the Athenian agora, Moore presents his on movie screens throughout America.
A dramatic case in point is Moore’s [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged September 2007, Volume VI Number I
