Category: Articles
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By Selwyn Duke “Passion governs, and she never governs wisely,” noted Benjamin Franklin in 1775. This could come to mind with the response to the fatal Minneapolis shooting of activist Renee Nicole Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). After all, far from being icy, as in cool-headed, many are running on fiery emotion and…
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By Selwyn Duke If “work ennobles man,” as the saying goes, are we headed for a very ignoble future? If “cash is king” today, what will reign tomorrow? If an abundance of the material can bury the spiritual, are we headed for an ever-more intensified secularism? These questions could and should be asked with a…
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By Selwyn Duke “There is now a rebellion on the part of certain states against the federal government,” announced commentator Bill O’Reilly Thursday. And front and center is Minnesota, where the governor and Minneapolis mayor are inciting people to violence, O’Reilly further expressed. The pundit was, of course, referencing these and other Democratic politicians’ opposition…
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By Selwyn Duke “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,” goes the paraphrase of G.K. Chesterton, “but because he loves what is behind him.” This comes to mind when pondering the Democrats’ now long-standing electoral strategy: Hate President Donald Trump. Then hate him some more. Then keep hating…
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By Selwyn Duke It’s sadly ironic that a university founded in 1636 to train clergy has embraced the devilish religion of racist dogma. But this is the case, warns 40-year Harvard history professor James Hankins. In fact, it’s so bad that he has left the school. What’s at issue is damning, Hankins warns. Harvard University…
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By Selwyn Duke It’s not just economic activity that has been moving from a waning North to a burgeoning South in recent times. Intellectual activity is also making that move — contrary to stereotypes. Just consider Mississippi, a state oft mocked by urban arts-and-croissant pseudo-sophisticates. Leading the post-Covid recovery, it has gone from 49th to seventh nationally…
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By Selwyn Duke Here’s an interesting question for those claiming that anti-white bias, and anti-white-male bias in particular, is imaginary. Why do, as a 2021 study found, more than a third of white students claim racial-minority status on college applications? Is contagious masochism sweeping white America? The Donald Trump administration knows the answer, and its Equal Employment Opportunity…
