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Why the Massachusetts Liberal Must Win
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Jack Kerwick
Newt Gingrich was mistaken when he referred to Mitt Romney as “a Massachusetts moderate.” The author of “Romneycare” is a Massachusetts liberal. Regularly, I hear from my fellow Ron Paul supporters (as well as many others) that Romney and Obama, Republican and Democrat, are for all practical purposes indistinguishable. These same people inform me that…
The Myth of the Democratic Ideal: Revisiting J. Schumpeter
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Jack Kerwick
The government, every one who has ever lived under a modern democratic government knows all too well, “works” for the citizen. Citizens delegate authority to their elected representatives on the condition that such representatives will do just what “the people” want. This, at any rate, is the ideal of democracy. It is an ideal that…
In Defense of Superman: Learning Virtue throught Popular Fiction
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Jack Kerwick
For centuries and millennia, the inhabitants of the Western world have recognized the indispensable role that stories play in shaping moral character. Human beings are born neither virtuous nor vicious, as Aristotle correctly noted. Rather, both excellence and vice are habits that we acquire by way of imitating others—whether these others are flesh-and-blood beings or…
Obama: A Just Man?
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Jack Kerwick
President Barack Obama is not a “nice guy.” From Republican campaign strategist Ed Rollins and Republican House Speaker John Boehner to Republican presidential contenders John McCain and Mitt Romney, far too many Republicans have fueled the popular perception that Obama is a nice guy. This perception is an illusion. But it is a most dangerous…
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