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, [...]
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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 [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on August 1, 2003
As the world’s attention draws away from the Iraqi conflict, South America may loom large on the horizon for terrorist groups or other countries intent upon proliferating terrorism by strengthening their ties to certain political regimes on the continent. Allies of Saddam Hussein, Libya, Cuba, terrorist groups, or South American guerillas may use terrorism and [...]
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By Stephen Beale on August 1, 2003
Modern liberals are afflicted with a Pavlovian obsession for diversity. Like freedom and democracy for previous generations, diversity excites a religious fervor among its followers. Diversity is especially enchanting because it represents the fusion of the most enduring passions of recent human history —the trinity of liberty, equality, and fraternity Such words, in the observation [...]
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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 [...]
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By Alan Silverman on August 1, 2003
The people’s good is the highest law.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb.
—Abraham Lincoln
When it comes to a decision by the head of the state upon a matter involving [...]
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