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 The Brown Spectator on April 5, 2004
Senate Outlaws Violence Against Unborn Children – Kerry Dissents
By 61 to 38 margin, the Senate yesterday approved the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which provides for separate criminal charges when violent acts against a pregnant mother harm or kill the fetus…. John Kerry voted against the final bill.
In my opinion, the efforts by abortion advocates [...]
Posted in Editorials | Tagged April 2004, Volume II Number V
By Vijay Malik on April 5, 2004
April 15 is anathema to most Americans. This date is the Internal Revenue Service filing deadline for income taxes. The tax code, inaugurated in 1913, has been at the forefront of American politics since its inception. Something about the income tax is un-American. Maybe it’s the purported unfairness of it, professed by economic conservatives; maybe [...]
Posted in Editorials, National | Tagged April 2004, Volume II Number V
By Sheila Dugan on April 5, 2004
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 [...]
Posted in Essay | Tagged April 2004, Volume II Number V
By Alan Silverman on April 5, 2004
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 [...]
Posted in Essay | Tagged April 2004, Volume II Number V
By The Brown Spectator on April 5, 2004
President Ruth Simmons has exhumed the most divisive subject in the recent history of Brown: slavery reparations. The new committee on “slavery and justice” is in a sense a good-faith attempt to engage in the dialogue that never happened in the spring of 2001 when conservative theorist David Horowitz published an antireparations ad in the [...]
Posted in Editorials, Lead | Tagged April 2004, Volume II Number V
