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Columbus Day: Still a Day Worth Celebrating
By
Jack Kerwick
Few holidays are as “politically incorrect” as is the day that Americans reserve to commemorate the birthday of Christopher Columbus. Such is the ferocity of the smear campaign to which Columbus has been subjected for decades that he has been made into a villain among villains in the rogues’ gallery of history. Geoffrey Symcox, of…
Neoconservatism versus Conservatism: The Philosophy of the GOP
By
Jack Kerwick
If the Democratic Party’s control of the presidency and the Senate can succeed in provoking the base of the GOP to reevaluate its collective political identity, then it all may just have been worth it. Maybe—maybe—the internecine conflict currently on display in the GOP indicates a breakdown of that political philosophy that has dominated Republican…
Academic Activism: “Liberal Learning” Today
By
Jack Kerwick
The ideal of liberal learning is among the most noble, the most beautiful, that has ever been thought. Though never perfected, it was an ideal toward which generations of academics strived. Academia was always supposed to be a place devoted to “the disinterested pursuit of truth and knowledge,” a place where prejudice is subordinated to…
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