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Kaepernickism and Patriotism
By
Jack Kerwick
In the present controversy over the NFL, there are basically two sides. On the one side are the Kaepernickists, those professional players and their apologists who insist that in refusing to stand for the national anthem and acknowledge the American flag, they do not intend any anti-Americanism but, rather, wish only to draw the nation’s…
My Response to “Columbus, the West, and the Myth of the Noble Savage”
By
Jack Kerwick
My most recent article, “Columbus, the West, and the Myth of the Noble Savage,” elicited a quite surprising response from a friend that took me off guard. Although no one with whom I shared this article raised a single syllable’s worth of an objection to any of the facts that I stated, she proceeded to…
The Las Vegas Shooting in the Age of Trump
By
Jack Kerwick
As of this writing, it has been a little more than a week since Stephen Paddock opened fired on some 22,000 attendees at a country music concert in Las Vegas, murdering 58 and hospitalizing over 500 more. Shortly before Paddock began spraying the crowd with bullets, those in attendance were waving American flags while singing…
Columbus, the West, and the Myth of the Noble Savage
By
Jack Kerwick
Well, it’s Christopher Columbus Day again. And this, of course, means that it is but another occasion for leftists everywhere to repudiate their own civilization. For a few decades now, the 15th century European explorer’s face has been held up as that of Western civilization, i.e. the face of all that is evil in the…
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