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Groupthink in Academia
By
Jack Kerwick
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently featured an article lamenting the lack of “diversity” in my discipline. Philosophy, so goes the article, just hasn’t been welcoming toward minorities and women. Thankfully, such enlightened departments as that found at Penn State University have endeavored to “decolonize the canon.” Of course, academia isn’t in the least bit…
Systemic Ideological Bias in Higher Ed
By
Jack Kerwick
Among the variety of other topics that it explores, my book, The American Offensive: Dispatches from the Front, discusses at length the intellectual and moral corruption that pervades much of the humanities and liberal arts in the contemporary academy. The examples of the corruption are legion. Recently, at San Francisco State University, a white student,…
The Young Messiah: A Response to its Critics
By
Jack Kerwick
The Young Messiah (TYM) is a film at once entertaining and endearing. An admittedly fictionalized imagining of Jesus as a seven year-old boy, this movie’s treatment of its subject matter is eminently respectful. Not everyone feels this way, however. Dave Armstrong, a “professional Catholic apologist,” concedes in Patheos that “there are several aspects of [the]…
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