Warrior Blogger Receives Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Award

We are extremely honored to receive the Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Award from the Bradley Foundation.

The award will be presented Friday night at CPAC (The Conservative Political Action Conference).

According to the Foundation:

McAdams was selected for his outspoken criticism of political correctness on college campuses.

Actually, one campus (Marquette) which led Marquette to attempt to fire us.

Bradley says:

“Professor McAdams is a fearless defender of free speech and open inquiry, and a martyr to political correctness,” said Richard Graber, President and CEO of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which supports the Kirkpatrick Award. “His dismissal from Marquette University flies in the face of the traditions of academic freedom.”

And now the really good part:

The award carries a $10,000 stipend and honors the memory of Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who was known for her outspokenness in hostile environments, her clarity and determination in the midst of oppression, and her fierce dedication to American ideals and academic freedom.

Kirkpatrick earned the enmity of the academic left by being an anti-communist. Further, she claimed that “moderate autocrats friendly to American interests” were better than communist (or other totalitarian) regimes which entirely suppressed civil liberties and where hostile to U.S. interests. History has proven her right, but at the time, leftist academics claimed that any less-than-fully democratic government might as well be replaced by a communist (or Islamist) regime.

We, of course, are not nearly as important as Jean Kirkpatrick, having done nothing but defy an attempt by a nominally Catholic (but actually secular and politically correct) university to fire us.

But we’ll accept the award anyway.