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WEBBrown Political Review is Brown University’s entirely student-written and student-run, nonpartisan magazine for political journalism. Founded in 2012, BPR aims to bring high-quality reporting on regional, national, and international politics to Brown, the Providence community, and beyond. Brown Political Review publishes a print magazine four times a year and updates this website daily with ...
The Linguistic Colonialism of English - Brown Political Review
WEBApr 25, 2017 · The Linguistic Colonialism of English. Some argue that the historical and current bloodshed of Western imperialism has transformed the English language into a universal tool of communication. Through centuries of colonialism, neocolonialism, Cold War expansionism, and, most recently, globalization, the …
The Fallacy and Persistence of “Trickle-Down Economics”
WEBNov 15, 2019 · The comprehensive analyses refuting trickle-down theory are numerous. A recent study found that tax cuts for lower-income groups do tend to facilitate encouraging employment growth, but that tax cuts for the upper 10 percent have a muted effect on job creation. This reflects the basic flaw in the philosophy of supply-side economics as a viable approach to advantaging the lower classes, as this ...
Personal Space and American Individualism - Brown Political Review
WEBOct 31, 2018 · Personal space is defined as the invisible bubble that surrounds a person’s body during an interaction. In 2001, researchers analyzed the distance that people of different cultures maintained when talking with someone, and found that people from the US and the UK maintained the largest personal distance …
The Unsustainability of Mass Tourism - Brown Political Review
WEBNov 4, 2017 · The Unsustainability of Mass Tourism. Little Venice quay flooded with tourists. Mykonos island. Cyclades, Agean Sea, Greece. Mass tourism as a social phenomenon is relatively new, with its numbers rising dramatically in recent years. Originating in the early 20th Century, the phenomenon experienced its first …
Borders and Identities - Brown Political Review
WEBApr 7, 2016 · Borders are central to this identity creation. The physical border of the “wall” serves as an embodiment of the difference, real or imagined, between the US and Mexico. In recognizing that split and exaggerating the differences between the two countries, Trump forces the bifurcation of the two to the foreground of the argument.
Harm and Inefficacy: the U.S. sanctions on Cuba
WEBMay 22, 2020 · The economic cost of these sanctions is steep. According to the United Nations, the embargo has cost Cuba roughly $130 billion in economic value over 6 decades. Although this number may seem negligible, it is in fact about one and a half times Cuba’s annual GDP of $87 billion. At the same time, the US International Trade Commission estimates ...
Reimagining Race and America: An Interview with Eddie Glaude Jr.
WEBMar 16, 2023 · Eddie Glaude Jr. is a James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. In addition to being a renowned scholar, he is a public intellectual and political commentator who examines the complexities of the American experience in the tradition of James Baldwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Glaude is the author of many prominent and bestselling […]
Ukrainian Sacrifice and the American Glorification of War Death
WEBMay 3, 2022 · American Sniper, a 2014 film about the war in Iraq, presents a different kind of depiction of “sacrifice,” telling the story of Chris Kyle, a former Navy SEAL, who was killed while trying to help another veteran who was suffering from PTSD. Also released in 2014, Fury is dedicated almost entirely to the last stand of a World War II tank crew.
When the Majority Suffers: The Case for Intellectual Diversity on ...
WEBDec 16, 2020 · 2020 has been a tumultuous year. Even without considering COVID-19, the internal strife within the United States is at its explosive peak. The two parties are raging against each other, families are split down the middle, and political disagreements have become dangerously redefined in moral terms that attack people’s characters rather than their reasoning.