By Keith Dellagrotta on July 9, 2009
Madam –
On November 13, The Brown Daily Herald published an opinions article written by Sarah Rosenthal ’11, titled “No on Yes on Prop 8.” The piece presented a weak, and very misleading, argument that attempted to characterize the Christian church as following teachings full of contradictions, vice, and hate. In response, I wrote to the [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged May 2009, Volume VII Number IV
By Evan Schmidt on October 24, 2008
I just wanted to say God bless each and every one of you for speaking out and writing against the sea of liberal bullshit that is Brown University. Not only are most of the kids here Left-wing, but so is the majority of the professors and staff and it drives me crazy when I [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By Devin Gould on October 24, 2008
Dear Madam:
I was first surprised, then elated, and subsequently enlightened, after reading about Anish K. Mitra’s discovery of an egotistical politician. Barack Obama is no doubt the first politician ever who, to quote Mr. Mitra, “is primarily driven by an over-inflated ego.” This is a discovery of the highest magnitude, one which will surely rank [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By Rafael Chaiken on September 15, 2008
Dear Madam:
In the past year,my reading of the Spectator has exposed a rather glaring inconsistency which I hope you will address. The last page of each issue gives credit to the Foundation for Intellectual Diversity and its motto, “ideas without labels.”This is a laudable goal that deserves currency in the contemporary political climate.Institutions such as [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Simon Radford on September 15, 2008
Dear Madam:
I was pleased,upon my return to the university where I enjoyed a year as a graduate student, to pick up a copy of The Brown Spec tator. While I consider myself broadly on the left, I was always pleased to encounter material that challenged my way of thinking and broadened the marketplace of ideas. [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Bonnie McFadden on May 8, 2008
Sir:
For a Spectator writer who claims to be an official in Brown’s “Model UN”, the intellectual arrogance coupled with utter ignorance about the subject under discussion astonishing. I am a highly educated American living and teaching in Venezuela. I see the operations of the Chavez government on a daily basis and it should serve as [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Marc Frank on April 17, 2008
Sir:
In 2004 President Bush received 284 electoral votes, fourteen more than needed to secure the Presidency. Bush won Ohio by less than 119 thousand votes, so a swing of less than 80 thousand votes would have meant a Kerry presidency. Meanwhile, in the last three years, Ohio’s economy has floundered, protectionist ideals are on the [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
By Brian Barbata on April 17, 2008
Sir:
Mr. Halenda and Mr. Mitra make detailed arguments regarding the technique, the legality, the effect and the catagorization of “waterboarding”, but both (as do most) miss the salient point. Let me use this example: You are a soldier who comes upon an Iraqi who has a weapon. Do you shoot him, talk to him, or [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
By Peter Catsimpiris on March 21, 2008
To the Editor:
Reading “Against Waterboarding: A Question of Values” in February’s Spectator, I was dismayed that Mr. Halenda does not explain exactly which “values” urge the prohibition of this infamous interrogation tactic, a failure leading to his muddled nonsolution to this ethical dilemma that ultimately decries what is doubtless a reasonable means of foiling terrorist [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged March 2008, Volume VI Number V
By Tyler Rosenbaum on February 20, 2008
Sir:
Peter Catsimpiris’s comparison of Christianity with science was somewhat offensive and contained a variety of logical fallacies. Straight to the point: he dismissed Islam and Mormonism for being founded in “secret” and claimed that Christianity’s birth, on the other hand, was the paragon of openness, with historically verifiable evidence. [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged February 2008, Volume VI Number IV
