Columns

Brundage '15: Holding the Brown Democrats accountable

Gautam '12: Why I gave to Brown

Syme GS: The hand that feeds us

In its editorial column ("Brown is not Goliath," March 21), The Herald's editorial page board argued that Brown should not significantly increase its payments to Providence because this would threaten Brown's valuable educational mission, specifically by leading to tuition increases or cuts in financial ...

Spencer-Salmon '14: Defending the right to disagree

Moffat '13: Response to the UCS/UFB candidate debate

For all of you who didn't make it to the debate last night, you really missed out. You have no idea how refreshing it is to listen to a non-Republican presidential debate, where the candidates are actually willing to be charitable to one another and - oh my goodness - even agree with each other. Supporters ...

Lebovitz '14: Response to the UCS/UFB candidate debate

An experience disparity was on full display at yesterday's debate. The differences between the candidates were evident, and the questions really boiled the three candidates down into two neat groups. David Rattner '13 - who, in full disclosure, is in the same fraternity as myself - and Anthony White ...

Golden '14: Response to UCS/UFB candidate debate

This election season, I became fascinated and engrossed by the Republican presidential primary campaigns. Each debate offered another peek through the looking glass. From candidates forgetting their platforms at the dais to others throwing down $10,000 bets, just about the only thing missing from the ...

Schleimer '12: Why it's ethical to eat meat

In March, the New York Times' Ethicist column asked: Is it ethical for humans to eat meat? As omnivores, human beings have always relied on meat as a significant source of nutrition. Evidence of specialized hunting techniques dates back 50,000 years to the origins of human culture. But just because ...

McDonald '14: Who cares about Trayvon Martin?

Carty '15: Complicating the moral of the Trayvon Martin tragedy

Approximately five months ago, two men robbed me. On Meeting Street at 2:30 p.m., one pulled a cord over my head, dragged it taut across my open mouth and held it in place while he spun me around and had his partner relieve me of my possessions. I did not see the man holding me, but the one who faced ...

Kalyanpur '13: The Unbearable Lightness of Brown?

"YOLO! YOLO!" has been echoing at every party you go to, and the hashtag is dominating the Twitterverse. "You Only Live Once" is a great excuse to get down and dirty, but it has also historically been the subject of plenty of philosophical debates. 

Dorris '15: Is religion the scariest word?

We've all met them. 

Enzerink GS: Not gone with the wind, yet

Just 147 years after the Civil War, political mudslinging and the economic crisis have accelerated fears that the country might find itself on the eve of another devastating national conflict. Cooperation in Congress is at a low. The pressures of election season have created a culture of decisions that ...

Eppler '13: Rethinking social entrepreneurship

If there were a list of things Brown students say, "social entrepreneurship" would be up there with "hegemony" and "spicy with." Social entrepreneurship has attracted a great deal of institutional attention. Countless extracurricular programs, fellowships, courses, conferences and other initiatives ...

Thomas '15: Changing the dialogue around food

This spring, some 2,760 bright high school seniors anxiously and excitedly received acceptance letters from the University. Many of these eager young minds also received similar letters from our peer institutions and are now faced with the important question, "Why Brown?"

Gordon '14: Brown's motto should change

Husted '13: Rebuttal

Husted '13: Don't change the motto

Gordon '14: Rebuttal

Hefer '12: How I learned to stop worrying and love lit crit

Literary criticism ­- by which I mean the discipline practiced by the comparative literature, modern culture and media and other related departments - has its fingers in a lot of pies. Race and gender/sexuality studies are rife with critical thought. It seems that each of the humanities has picked ...