By Lindsey Meyers on May 4, 2009
As a freshman who lives in Keeney Quad, I often walk by the John Carter Brown Library, where the words “Speak to the Past and It Shall Teach Thee” are fittingly carved in stone. Some might regard this exhortation as more than passing strange. But, as a nascent classicist, I particularly like it.
That is [...]
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By Trevor Gleason on January 1, 2006
The overall mood in the simulcast was somewhat less than jubilant. After a few hours standing in line sustained by nothing more than perfunctory cheers and abortive attempts at creating a wave, the opportunity to watch Kerry live on a television screen did not exactly electrify the audience.
The standing ovation he received in the main [...]
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By Pratik Chougule on January 1, 2006
After three weeks of lectures devoted entirely to the main theories of international relations, my professor asked the class, “How would you categorize the Reagan Administration?” No one could provide an answer. “The Bush Administration?” Silence again.
Though scholars have written about international politics for centuries, the formal recognition of a separate discipline [...]
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By Pratik Chougule on January 1, 2006
PC: Thank you for agreeing to the interview. Your new book investigates the Islamic doctrine of Jihad or holy war and its impact throughout history. As a physician by profession, how did you become interested in the topic?
AB: September 11, 2001 shocked me out of the complete absorption in my career in medicine—specifically, [...]
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By Pratik Chougule on January 1, 2006
The Brown Spectator is a journal of conservative thought and opinion committed to the dissemination and discussion of the ideas and values of Western Culture. In light of President Simmon’s renewed commitment to intellectual diversity, we recognized that while intellectual diversity requires tolerance of the majority, it is equally contingent on the presence of [...]
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By Sheila Dugan on January 1, 2006
In politics, having the label “Washington Outsider” can lend legitimacy to any campaign where the qualifications of the candidate are suspect. It becomes easier for a candidate to create the illusion that they are a true reformer, even though their platforms are merely reworked versions of plans that were implemented beforehand.
Last Spring, Jennifer Lawless, [...]
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By Brian Bishop on January 1, 2006
Gordon Wood, holding forth on “The Origins of American Constitutionalism”, found it first necessary to hold forth on the origins of such a topic on college campuses. While colleges understandably bridle at federal mandates of the sort that Robert Byrd slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill requiring an educational program on the US Constitution each [...]
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By Travis Rowley on January 1, 2006
Below is an excerpt from Out of Ivy: How a Liberal Ivy Created a Committed Conservative. The author of this forthcoming book is Travis Rowley, a local Rhode Islander, and former captain of the Brown football team. Rowley describes Out of Ivy as a “damaging tell-all of Brown University, and harsh appraisal of radical liberalism.” [...]
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