The Brown Spectator
Encyclopedia
The Brown Spectator is a student-run journal of conservative and libertarian
Libertarianism
Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...

 political writing at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

. It was originally the product of a student independent project. It was first published in 1984 "as a two-page offering of student writing on brightly colored paper".

It was revived in 1986 as a Brown University, student-run opinion journal that published articles of both national and campus concern that other publications ignored. Begun by Jennifer Poli '87 and Karen Engel '87, put out the "alternative journal" of conservative thought

After disappearing for some time, The Brown Spectator was re-revived by Stephen Beale during the 2002-2003 school year and survives in its current form as Brown University's only journal of conservative and libertarian thought.

External links

  • The Brown Spectator (official website)
  • The Brown Spectator at Encyclopedia Brunoniana
    Encyclopedia Brunoniana
    Encyclopedia Brunoniana is an American reference work by Martha Mitchell covering Brown University. Published in 1993 by the Brown University Library, the encyclopedia has 629 pages. A digital version can be read free of charge on the Internet....

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