For us to fulfill our desired hairstyle, we must pick our hairstylist first. Hairstylists are trained professionals who rescue us from having a bad hair day. They train well to help us-clients achieve the look we longed for. Is their job that easy?
Continue readingThe Libertarian Brown
Esquire magazine recently called Brown “That Maoist collective in Rhode Island.” Bill O’Reilly lambasted both the institution and the administration as “pinheads” and “liberals.” The Princeton Review ranked us as #18 on their list of “Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians.” Yet as I spend more and more time at Brown, the question for me is not […]
Continue readingTo Whom Do We Owe Our Allegiance?
Creating an appropriate topic for an article in any publication is the most daunting part of writing. Inevitably, it takes some degree of invention especially when your focus is not on news, and even if you are simply trying to report the facts, a good reporter learns to write between the lines. This prelude is to […]
Continue readingRight Stuff for Rhode Island
Might another “Kennedy seat” become “the people’s seat”? Republicans across Rhode Island, as well as plenty outside the state, are praying that will be the case. Their aspirations ride on John Loughlin, whose campaign for the first congressional district many see as a reprise of Scott Brown’s smash insurgency.
Continue readingFear Not the Radical Professor
Though it may not have been the intended reaction, I was greatly amused that William F. Buckley, Jr. actually seemed to take his professors so seriously in his classic God and Man at Yale. Of course, this book was published before the countercultural movements of the 1960s. That era and the subsequent generation of academics […]
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