By The Brown Spectator on April 20, 2010
The United States is a debtor nation neck-deep in the red. Nonetheless, our leaders (so-called) have decided to use money we do not have to create entitlements we can not afford to solve a crisis that does not exist. The just-passed healthcare bill is an affront to the old American expectation that government rule [...]
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By Will Wray on April 20, 2010
We are the Spectator, Brown University’s journal of libertarian and conservative opinion writing and original reportage.
This magazine has been missing in action for quite some time; we return now have new leadership, new direction, and new sense of purpose.
During my short tenure as editor-in-chief, I hope to make the Spectator a publication open to any [...]
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By Stephen Beale on July 7, 2009
At a time when Western Civilization faces attacks from within and without, and a period in which liberalism has degenerated into its opposite, we proudly present to you The Brown Spectator, a monthly journal of conservative thought and opinion committed to the dissemination and discussion of the ideas and values of Western culture. The publication [...]
Posted in Editorials | Tagged November 2002, Volume I Number I
By Alan Silverman on June 21, 2009
Beneficence… is less essential to the existence of society than justice…. [M]ercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.—Adam Smith
It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.—Thomas Paine
The modern debate over the death penalty in America seems to be a contest less of [...]
Posted in Editorials, Essay | Tagged November 2002, Volume I Number I
By The Brown Spectator on January 28, 2009
Andrew Migneault
Hold your judgments, but I had been eagerly awaiting the completion of Pembroke Hall since I first set foot on this campus over a year ago. An amateur architect myself, I always enjoy musing over the brickwork and window styles of our predominantly nineteenth-century East Side, often making sketches of the buildings that [...]
Posted in Editorials | Tagged January 2009, Volume VII Number III
By Joshua Unseth on November 8, 2008
The Brown Spectator has just received the Collegiate Network’s 2008 Award for Website Content and Design. The Brown Spectator, now in its sixth year of operation, beat out 109 other publications to receive the award. Consider this our pat on the back. Yay us!
We look forward to continuing to serve the Brown Community with our [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on October 24, 2008
Anish K. Mitra ‘10
Apparently, “[Senator] McCain doesn’t belong in any chair unless he’s paralyzed.” Ludacris, the southern rapper responsible for the aforementioned quote, has supported Sen. Barack Obama in many colorful ways; his latest rap freestyle is the most interesting one. Not only does McCain get a majority of the verbal lashing, but even Sen. [...]
Posted in Editorials | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By The Brown Spectator on September 15, 2008
With so many on the Left ranting and raving about how President Bush has violated key constitutional rights and liberties during the so-called War on Terrorism – a charge, for the record, with which we do not wholly disagree – it is breathtakingly hypocritical to see their indifference about the blatant, long-standing violation of the [...]
Posted in Editorials | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By The Brown Spectator on September 15, 2008
Sean B.Quigley ‘10
Sincere congratulations go to the players on the Brown football squad, which was voted third in the Ivy League pre-season media poll, as advertised on Brown University’s website. The crimson and blue Congregationalists to our North and West were tied for first place, with a ranking of 124 points each, but the industrious [...]
Posted in Editorials | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By The Brown Spectator on May 8, 2008
Susannah Kroeber
The last ten days of April were chock full of reminders that the spring flowers have finally heralded in the belated season. Not only did “grass” and other such natural products dominate on what I will term Brown’s Spring Appreciation Day, held annually on 4/20, but in addition Earth Day brought with its festivities [...]
Posted in Editorials | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
