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Nikolas Cruz and “Mental Health”: A Brief Analysis
By
Jack Kerwick
As always happens in the wake of a mass shooting, last week when Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people at his former Florida high school, commentators spared not a moment to take to the airwaves to bemoan the government’s alleged inattentiveness to the issue of “mental health” or “mental illness.” And Republicans, i.e. self-described conservatives, were…
The Radical ILLOGIC of “Gun-Control”
By
Jack Kerwick
Earlier this week, as everyone now knows, Nikolas Cruz, 19, shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 members of that community while injuring several others. Unsurprisingly, the bodies of the victims weren’t even cold before the usual suspects among the political left began calling for more “sensible” or “common sense…
Black History Month: George S. Schuyler
By
Jack Kerwick
It’s “Black History Month” again. And this means that it is an occasion to attend to matters that have become impossible to discuss in polite society. For example, odds are that relatively few people are aware of the name of George S. Schuyler. Born in upstate New York in 1895, Schuyler was a black American…
More on “S–HOLE-GATE”: A Trump Critic Answers My Questions–And I Respond
By
Jack Kerwick
As I write this, it has been nearly 24 hours since the President has denied making his “s-hole” comment regarding countries with shockingly low quality of life. Indeed, the only person in a room full of several people who claims to have heard the President make this remark is a Democrat, Dick Durban, who has…
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