Month: October 2026
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By Selwyn Duke It’s an amazing, though ignored, story: Murder in the United States is at its lowest level since perhaps 1900. As for the violent-crime rate in general, it fell 9.3 percent in 2025. This is the largest year-to-year decline since the FBI began estimating national trends in 1936. Something else at its lowest…
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By Selwyn Duke Napoleon Bonaparte once said that history is “a series of agreed-upon myths.” Yet that current events can be, too, brings us to a question. Can the Democrats win the midterms only if Americans subscribe to a certain myth? That is, the idea that President Donald Trump’s second term has been a failure.…
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By Selwyn Duke “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.” So said George Washington during his Farewell Address on September 17, 1796. They’re powerful parting words, but also, today, controversial ones. They’re met now with protestations such as “Whose God?!” and “You can be moral without God!” Well,…
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By Selwyn Duke One candidate has chosen a pastor who isn’t sure Jesus Christ existed and believes He didn’t die for our sins. Another supposes that Scripture got it wrong on sexuality. A third expressed discomfort at public Christian displays and suggests they should be rooted out. And a fourth opposes a ban on youth…
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By Selwyn Duke Forget that uber-thin-skinned narcissistic neighbor — are we now going to have to walk on eggs around artificial intelligence (AI), too? It’s a staggering thought, but also, essentially, the claim of British-Canadian computer scientist Professor Geoffrey Hinton. Hinton is no fly-by-night character, either — the 78-year-old Nobel laureate’s work on neural networks…
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By Selwyn Duke Could the Republicans say, paraphrasing Mark Twain, that rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated? Recent history of polling missteps and abuses — and a new story illustrating this problem — suggests that maybe they can. As many know, the Democrats have been counting on a “blue wave” to wash away their…
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By Selwyn Duke So often today we use weasel words, terms that just aren’t, you might say, “up to the challenge.” We may state that something is “inappropriate,” “suboptimal,” “problematic,” “misguided,” or “inadvisable” — even if it’s downright wicked. But not so with Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia. He’s urging Catholics…
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By Selwyn Duke No, it’s not The Wrath of Khan but The Rise of Khan — due to immigrationist policy. In 2023, “Muhammad” made news, overtaking “Noah” as England’s and Wales’ most popular boy’s name. And now biblical-flood-level migration will give Britain a new leader in surnames as well, with “Khan” poised to displace “Smith”…
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By Selwyn Duke “Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians,” warned intellectual Thomas Sowell, “who must be civilized before it is too late.” And much we’ve seen for many years now raises a question: Is it already too late? With video-recording devices everywhere today, we get to witness…
