By Sean Quigley on September 15, 2008
PublicAffairs, 1152pp. Forty Dollars.
After reading this tome on Richard Nixon,written by Conrad Black, one can only regret that Richard Nixon’s legacy seems forever to be colored by the Watergate affair. For not only did he make his mark as an accomplished politician and statesman, but also Nixon was an exemplary student and son.
Nixon graduated third [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By The Brown Spectator on September 15, 2008
This past summer, we are sad to write, three conservative icons passed away: Jesse Helms, a former five-term Senator from North Carolina, whose opposition to rigid ideology could best be summarized by his nickname, “Senator No”; Tony Snow, a former White House Press Secretary to President George W. Bush and capable conservative commentator; and Aleksandr [...]
Posted in Winner | 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 Susannah Kroeber on September 15, 2008
The very definition of a liberal arts education is a contrast of educations, rather than a concrete methodology. In ancient Rome, liberal education distinguished between the vocations taught to a slave,and the education imparted upon a freeman.Liberal arts were the foundation of the medieval Western university, a form requiring all students to master grammar, rhetoric, [...]
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By Christina Cozzetto on September 15, 2008
The cover of the July 21st, 2008, edition of The New Yorker was the source of some controversy. Illustrator Barry Blitt drew a picture of Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and his wife Michelle in the Oval Office that collected many stereotypes about the Democratic presidential hopeful: dressed in Muslim attire,Obama fist-bumps his wife, dressed as a [...]
Posted in National | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Andrew Migneault on September 15, 2008
Big brother is shopping with you. Last weekend, I went into the Walgreens convenience store in my town to develop a roll of film that I had exposed during my vacation on Cape Cod. I filled out the form, got out my money, and waited to hand a coupon to the sales clerk when she [...]
Posted in National | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Phileda Tennant on September 15, 2008
One quiet country evening, I convinced my trusty amigo Travis to join me in the long country drive to the nearest picture show to see Pineapple Express. “So what’s this movie about?”,Travis asked. Eager to appear hip to someone fresh from a summer at UT Austin, an Indie-culture-saturated university, I pretended to have heard Pineapple [...]
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By Kristina Kelleher on September 15, 2008
In 1840, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story dedicated his A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States to the “ingenious youth” of Massachusetts as a man who “gratefully acknowledges, that her territory is the land of his birth and the home of his choice.”Unfortunately,in recent times Massachusetts has found judges of Justice Story’s [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on September 15, 2008
Speaker Pelosi and the House Majority Leadership for adjourning before passing an energy bill, turning off the lights and CSPAN cameras in the House Chamber, and leaving the ‘Guerilla Congress’ in control. To make matters worse for the Speaker, her book, Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters, has tanked and should be appearing [...]
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