By The Brown Spectator on July 7, 2009
Dr. Daniel S. Harrop is a libertarian candidate for RI Representative in District 3, Providence. Dr. Harrop is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University and an Instructor in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. In addition to his faculty positions, Dr. Harrop also maintains a private practice of psychiatry. In an interview with [...]
Posted in Culture, Lead | Tagged November 2002, Volume I Number I
By Andy Golodny on July 7, 2009
While anecdotal evidence has typically been used to show that faculty at Ivy League universities are politically slanted towards the left, only recently have actual statistical studies been conducted to show the true extent of that bias. The results only confirmed what had been obvious to many students – that the faculty of humanities departments [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged November 2002, Volume I 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 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 Stephen Beale on May 4, 2009
In this series, The Spectator will profile conservative intellectuals whose contributions to political thought are often ignored. Each essay will focus on the ideas, values, and sentiments of one particular individual, beginning with TS Eliot and continuing with other exemplars of the conservative tradition, such as Edmund Burke and John Adams.
In 1940 the great modernist [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged christian culture, christian society, conservative intellectuals, liberalism, modernist poet, November 2002, ts eliot, Volume I Number I
