By Lindsey Meyers on February 1, 2007
James Joyce once observed that “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken.” But what if existence were even worse than Joyce imagined? What if we lived in a present with no hope of a future, one where human history was about to end? Would reality become a nightmare [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Roxanne Palmer on February 1, 2007
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of communism, I fear no Evil Empire. Thy wiretaps and thy secret prisons, they comfort me…"
The description "spy movie" traditionally indicates several key elements of cinema: large explosions, exotic women in bikinis, and bad puns following the deaths of anonymous henchmen. Robert DeNiro's "The Good [...]
Posted in Culture | 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 Sheila Dugan on November 16, 2006
In vogue the past couple of years, the documentary as an art form has deviated from the predictability of a Ken Burns-style documentary and has sought to provoke, not just educate, its audience. The successes of Michael Moore’s films and others of that ilk prove it is not just a video to be forced [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged November 2006, Thanksgiving, Volume V Number IV
By Lindsey Meyers on October 20, 2006
According to the New Yorker magazine, two Princeton economists have found that taller people are smarter and wealthier than shorter people. Not surprisingly, these economists have been accused of a new form of prejudice against shorter people, one that I have decided to term “shortism.”
The curious thing is that even tall people feel that they [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III
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 Brian Bishop on September 1, 2006
Noted atheist philosopher Daniel Dennett was spreading his ‘gospel’ at Harvard recently, i.e., his new book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a natural phenomenon. Dennett opened ironically by embracing naturalism, a religion rooted in natural phenomenon. He even encouraged donations to the lecture’s sponsor, the Center for Naturalism. This immediately brought to mind what might [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
By Sheila Dugan on September 1, 2006
As I read Watchdogs of Democracy? written by Helen Thomas, at times I felt the greatest crime of President Bush was his failure to charm her. The way she writes of state dinners as if it were her senior prom, describing her “long, black velvet skirt, with a matching jacket, and a fancy satin [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
By Pratik Chougule on January 1, 2006
PC: Thank you for agreeing to the interview. Your new book investigates the Islamic doctrine of Jihad or holy war and its impact throughout history. As a physician by profession, how did you become interested in the topic?
AB: September 11, 2001 shocked me out of the complete absorption in my career in medicine—specifically, [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged January 2006, Volume IV Number I
By Stephen Beale on March 1, 2005
The Brown Spectator’s Stephen Beale asks six questions of President Ruth Simmons regarding the University’s steering committee on slavery and justice, formed last year.
Stephen Beale: What were the motives for the creation of the committee? Who participated in the decision? What is the chain of events that led up to the formation of this committee?
Ruth [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged March 2005, Volume III Number I
