In an op-ed to the New York Times, William Broyles Jr. writes of allowing “other people’s children” to fight our wars. Noting the scarcity of politicians’ family members fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, Broyles ends his column by advocating the return of the draft; only then “chance, not connection or clever manipulation, would determine who [...]

Almost one year has elapsed since its disastrous debut, yet the mission of Brown University’s committee on slavery and justice remains unclear. Is the controversial committee a good-faith attempt to instruct the campus community in the virtues of disinterested dialogue, as university officials insist, or is Brown flirting with yet another intellectual fad, as many [...]

No community can be built on the basis of preferential treatment and double standards, and their existence belies university rhetoric about equality.
-Dinesh D’Souza
In the name of diversity, multiculturalism, and political correctness, Brown University has deliberately broken with the ideals of a classical liberal education. Perhaps this academic revolution can be most plainly witnessed in the [...]

One of my early encounters with liberalism at Brown University wasn’t even on campus. I met a girl while I was at a bar called the Yellow Kitten on Block Island, a small old-style colonial island off the coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island, my hometown. The area is a popular tourist spot in the summer, [...]

Next to photocopied pictures of Billy Collins and his poems, my high school poetry teacher stapled an op-ed written in response to Sam Hamill’s decision to not attend Laura Bush’s symposium about poetry. It was supposed to make us, students at a public arts high school, think about the artist’s role in political dialogue: should [...]

Having attended Brown University for nearly two years, and having sampled the political discourse here for just as long, I have learned a great deal about the power of labels. In the last four months, I have also learned how easily labels can mislead. For most of my time at Brown, I thought of myself [...]

Marriage is like a pair of shears oft times working in opposite directions, but punishing anyone that comes between them.
—Sydney Smith
The idea of contracts is deeply embedded in Western history and culture. Contracts reflected the Enlightenment ideal of reconciling individual autonomy with social obligations. In 1651, Thomas Hobbes introduced the governing principle of the social [...]