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Open Letter to a Tea Partier
By
Jack Kerwick
Dear Tea Partier, These are indeed exciting times. Not much more than two-and-a-half years ago, the movement to which you have given life was nonexistent. Since its birth, you have succeeded in arresting the attention of the entire country while acquiring a well deserved reputation for being the most formidable grassroots entity in contemporary politics. …
To All Logophobes
By
Jack Kerwick
Since I began this blog of mine at Beliefnet.com, “At the Intersection of Faith and Culture,” it hasn’t taken me long to elicit a not insignificant number of visitors. And even though the overwhelming majority of comments that some of these visitors have taken the time to leave have been negative in nature, I am…
Intellectual Dishonesty and Republican Pundits
By
Jack Kerwick
Intellectual dishonesty isn’t a vice peculiar to any one group of people or another; it is a human problem. But nowhere is it more salient than in the field of politics. Intellectual dishonesty isn’t identical with dishonesty proper. It is not altogether accurate, then, to characterize the intellectually dishonest person as a liar. Liars set…
Neoconservative “Extremism”
By
Jack Kerwick
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the Republican Party establishment—I refer to both politicians as well as the punditry class constituting the so-called “new” or “alternative media”—is not conservative. It is neoconservative. Although this is not something of which readers of this site need to be informed, it is a point worth repeating nonetheless. Few…
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