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The Constitution v The Declaration of Independence
By
Jack Kerwick
Recently, I experienced no small measure of disappointment when an article that I submitted to a little known “conservative” website was rejected. It wasn’t the rejection, however, from which my dissatisfaction stemmed but, rather, the reason for it. You see, I challenged the conventional bi-partisan orthodoxy that the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution…
America the Idea
By
Jack Kerwick
Not too long ago, I was interviewed on a radio show. Shortly before my interview ended, and before I could really say much more, one of the two hosts affirmed the conventional, bi-partisan orthodoxy that America was founded on an “idea.” Presumably, this idea is the “self-evident” principle famously enshrined in the Declaration of Independence…
Academic Bigotry II
By
Jack Kerwick
It is nothing short of a foregone conclusion that the life of a graduate student will be anything but enviable. But when the graduate student is a staunch critic of the leftist, “politically correct” dogma that pervades the Liberal Arts and Humanities departments of America’s colleges and universities and also happens to be majoring in…
Academic Bigotry
By
Jack Kerwick
Closing in on his second master’s degree in biblical studies, a good friend of mine is about to defend his 60-page thesis on the creation accounts in the book of Genesis. In the eleventh hour, though, he has run into a problem: his advisor has informed him just one week outside of his defense that…
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