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Beyond Obama’s Words: The Philosophy Behind Redistribution
By
Jack Kerwick
Whether he is at a conference of like minded colleagues, speaking to Joe the Plumber, or making campaign stump speeches, Barack Obama has expressed time and time again his preference for “redistribution.” Every time he calls upon “the rich” to “pay their fair share,” he reveals his desire to confiscate the resources from some in…
Exorcising Neoconservative Ghosts
By
Jack Kerwick
A couple of weeks ago, while on Meet the Press, Peggy Noonan offered some advice to Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. Romney, she said, “has to kick away from and define himself against what happened for the eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency [.]” I couldn’t agree more. As Noonan rightly observes, not only…
Romney, Bush, and Foreign Policy
By
Jack Kerwick
In a 60 Minutes interview this past Sunday, Barack Obama touched upon a topic that, if pursued, could very well hand him an election victory come November. In response to rival Mitt Romney’s objections against his approach to Syria and Iran, the President responded simply: if, he said, Romney “is suggesting that we should start…
Is “the Right Wing” Responsible for Neglect of Liberal Arts?
By
Jack Kerwick
Just hours before writing this, some colleagues of mine at a local community college in New Jersey where I teach philosophy were busy lamenting their students’ utter lack of interest in the liberal arts. Indeed, the phenomenon to which my colleagues refer is one of which educators everywhere are all too familiar. They are further…
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