By The Brown Spectator on December 8, 2010
As many know, Angel Taveras, the Harvard and Georgetown educated lawyer and former city housing court judge won he democratic primary with forty nine percent of the vote. He defeated John Lombardi (twenty nine percent of the vote), who has been a fixture for the last twenty-six years on the Providence City Council and has [...]
Posted in Features, Local | Tagged Providence, Taveras
By Philip Primeau on December 8, 2010
The question of the Ground Zero mosque is not a matter of “can” but “should.” Imam Rauf and his Muslim brethren can build their house of culture and worship at 51 Park Place, several blocks from the tomblike footprints of the Twin Towers — but should they?
Contrary to liberal insinuations, nobody doubts Rauf’s rights, but [...]
Posted in Features, International, National | Tagged 51 Park Place, Cordoba house, Ground Zero Mosque
By The Brown Spectator on December 8, 2010
Though it may not have been the intended reaction, I was greatly amused that William F. Buckley, Jr. actually seemed to take his professors so seriously in his classic God and Man at Yale. Of course, this book was published before the countercultural movements of the 1960s. That era and the subsequent generation of academics [...]
Posted in Brown University, Features | Tagged Dr. Wade, Professor, Radical
By Alex Schulman on July 7, 2009
Dear John/Jane Doe,
Let me begin by saying that I envy you your coming four years at Brown, despite anything I might say in the course of this missive. I still find it more than a bit depressing that I will not be returning to cozy College Hill this fall, as had come to seem routine, [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged August 2003, Volume II Number I
By Alex Schulman on July 7, 2009
Under the heading “Comedy and Tragedy: 2002-2003 School Year” the “Young America’s Foundation” (www.yaf.org) lists college courses at schools they variously deem “bizarre and ideological” or simply “ridiculous.” The schools are split up by category, with the Ivy League coming first.
As one who has written frequently about our current academic malaise and the grotesque decline [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged November 2002, Volume I Number I
By Alan Silverman on April 5, 2004
At a time when the principles of federalism are in disrepair, it is important to recall the centrality of these principles to our constitutional heritage and their intimate relationship with conservative thought. Today, of the two major political parties in the United States, it is the Republican Party that is identified with states’ rights. That [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged April 2004, Volume II Number V
By Vijay Malik on November 10, 2003
“We found that government can spend money but it can’t put hope in our hearts or a sense of purpose in our lives; this is done by churches and synagogues and mosques and charities that warm the cold of life. A quiet river of goodness and kindness that cuts through stone.”
-President George W. Bush
During his [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged November 2003, Volume II Number III
By David Horowitz on November 10, 2003
In the spring of 2001, I placed an ad in the student paper at Brown giving “Ten Reasons Why Reparations For Slavery Is A Bad Idea – And Racist Too.” I thought it was a bad idea because it was being proposed 137 years after the fact, and that it was racist because it made [...]
Posted in Features, Lead | Tagged November 2003, Volume II Number III
By Christopher McAuliffe on August 1, 2003
Just how tenacious are our civil liberties and our Constitution in the face of a concerted, emotional, ideological assault? The answer is variable, and far from clear. During World War II, an entire ethnic population was harassed and deprived of liberty, property, and due process in the name of national security. Certainly, we should all [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged August 2003, Volume II Number I
By Eric Neuman on August 1, 2003
President Bush’s tax plan has been routinely criticized for giving tax cuts to the rich—especially the “wealthiest one percent.” While both sides of the political divide continue to argue as to exactly who gets the largest break by Bush’s tax cuts, the central issue is often missed: a tax cut given to any group ultimately [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged August 2003, Volume II Number I
