The Brown University Spectator

Kanye West and Mike Myers

The Brown Spectator — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:25:50 +0000

Hurricane Katrina shook the nation no doubt. Watching the city of New Orleans sink was anything but easy. But after all that, Kanye West had the tenacity to declare the disaster George Bush’s fault. It’s gaffes like this that got Mr. Kanye West his very own South Park episode (Wherein we learn that Kanye is [...]

Kanye West

The Brown Spectator — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:59:46 +0000

On September 13th, Kanye West once again sated his addiction to making a fool of himself through outbursts on live programs. Remember his statement during a live benefit concert on NBC, next to a stunned Mike Myers, that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”? This time, during the Video Music Awards, he grabbed the [...]

General Stanley A. McChrystal

The Brown Spectator — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:59:26 +0000

In the first few months of his administration, President Obama expanded the U.S. presence in Afghanistan by sending in approximately 20,000 more troops and advisors to the region. Whatever the merits of such a strategy, or the foreign-policy principles underlying it, Obama had at least committed himself to a strategy. Since then, he has taken [...]

Greatest Hits

The Brown Spectator — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:59:01 +0000

This month the Brown Spectator put together a best of issue in celebrating our storied 8-year history. We are proud of our publication, and are excited to dig up some of our forgotten history. And so, sit back, and enjoy the Brown Spectator’s greatest hits! Sexual Assult Victims Intellectual Diversity Waterboarding is Not Torture War Poetry Politics TS Eliot and [...]

Economic Collapse 2008

Frank Rinaldi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:00:58 +0000

In the month of September, the federal government passed a bill that called for spending over $700 billion of public money in order to take over failed assets from Wall Street firms. This plan was supposed stop the bleeding and enable the financial markets to start their path to recovery. It is important to note [...]

Obama’s Foreign Policy

Kristina Kelleher — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:00:50 +0000

President Barack Obama has said that he wants to be a transformational leader. During the primary, Obama said that he wanted to be more like President Reagan than President Clinton because Reagan fundamentally changed government and left an impact on the world. Considering the momentous change that Obama has promised, it is ironic that he [...]

To Whom Do We Owe Our Allegiance?

Susannah Kroeber — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:00:41 +0000

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 [...]

The Libertarian Brown

Kevin Kay — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:59:40 +0000

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 [...]

A Stranger in a Strange Land

Jason Carr — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:59:34 +0000

Two weeks before the spring break of my freshman year at Brown, I had a difficult choice to make. My father had offered to me the opportunity to spend the break in Cancun with my stepmother and their three children. While the prospect of finally exposing my skin to sunlight after a long tenure in [...]

Christianity in the Academy

Peter Catsimpiris — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:59:32 +0000

Christianity is rational, scientific, and has a place in the ivory tower. If that's the case, then why has it been shunned from the modern academy?