Narayan Subramanian / February 14, 2012 7:59 pm
This is Columbia Political Review’s new running feature – Political Minutes – where we provide coverage of political events happening across campus and New York City. If you know of an event or want coverage, let us know! Turath, the Arab Students Group, hosted a debate last night on President Obama’s Middle East Foreign Policy that brought together the College Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Socialists, and The Current (Jewish-a...
ACE Forums / June 10, 2012 9:07 am
...to recognize the difference between 1993 conservatives and 2009 conservatives. The Republican Party is a collection of many varied conservatisms, all somewhat at odds with one another. Social conservatives, neoconservatives, libertarians, fiscal conservatives, and paleoconservatives all stress different values. For example, Rick Santorum’s socially conservative idea that government has a moral Christian duty to oppose abortion or gay marriage di...
CPR / October 24, 2011 2:52 am
...o beholden to special interests, are given fewer and fewer incentives to pay attention to the people they ostensibly represent. Why should they, when they can be the beneficiaries of potentially unlimited corporate windfalls? Libertarians (Andrew Goss): Individual liberties should be preserved above all other concerns, and people need information in order to protect, exercise and enjoy their liberties as best as they can. Speech, while an import...
Narayan Subramanian / October 24, 2011 2:30 am
While my layout editors and I are putting the finishing touches on this issue, my peers and members of my editorial staff are downtown participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Regardless of where one falls ideologically, the movement is undoubtedly an uprising against the corporate juggernaut that defines our time. The four popular political groups on campus (CU Democrats, College Republicans, College Libertarians, and International Soc...
Sam Roth / March 18, 2010 7:14 am
..., including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the new legal challenges will create troublesome delays, if not outright roadblocks. D.C. v. Heller marks a victory for all advocates of looser gun laws, including many civil libertarians, recreational hunters, and other law-abiding citizens. “Most [gun-owners] own guns for hunting and sporting reasons,” commented Spitzer. For one more worrisome group of citizens, however, the change could not co...
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