Category: Articles
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By Selwyn Duke It’s unbelievable though apparently true (I quadruple-checked it) that the United States’ murder rate for 2025 may be the lowest it has been since perhaps 1900. Given this, even those fancying gun control a remedy may think more firearms restrictions would currently be a solution in search of a problem. Not today’s Democratic…
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By Selwyn Duke The first man who staked out a piece of ground and said “This is mine” was a liar, goes a paraphrase of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Yet that man also, the philosopher stated, “was the real founder of civil society.” Rousseau was no fan of our Western civil society, but perhaps that makes his statement even…
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By Selwyn Duke See if you can finish this thought: If tea drinkers are more likely to vote for a given political party, that party will encourage tea drinking. If bicycle riders are more likely to vote for a given party, that party will encourage bicycle riding. If newly naturalized immigrants are more likely to…
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By Selwyn Duke If you think wokeness is dead, one Mr. Barry Neufeld might like a word. After all, the Canadian ex-education official has been ordered to pay $750,000 to sexual devolutionary (“LGBTQ”) teachers in his district. The reason? It’s for “injury to their dignity, feelings and self-respect.”
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By Selwyn Duke In 1968, British politician Enoch Powell warned that the U.K.’s immigration policies were akin to “watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.” They would ensure the demographic transformation of British cities, he predicted. He later warned of “civil war,” too. In reaction, Powell was expelled from the…
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By Selwyn Duke Here’s a point to ponder: Silicon Valley tech executives, including those from Apple and Google, have sometimes opted to send their own children to explicitly low-tech schools. Some also have raised their kids tech-free or with strictly limited screen time. These are people, too, who know technology as a baker does bread. Given this,…
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By Selwyn Duke “Plato is my friend,” ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle reputedly said, “but truth is a greater friend.” This was echoed two millennia later by English scientist Isaac Newton. “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend,” he said, “but truth is a greater friend.” And today many might say “Plato is my friend,…
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By Selwyn Duke “The dog is man’s best friend” the saying goes. Why, we humans argue about most everything, notes website History and Headlines. “If there is one thing most people agree on, though, it is dogs,” it continues. “How can you not love them?” Maybe one Nerdeen Kiswani can answer that question. After all, Kiswani,…
