Category: Articles
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By Selwyn Duke Many years ago, late economist Walter E. Williams recounted a story about being offered a prestigious Ivy League professorship. A young man at the time, he refused the position. Since he wasn’t qualified on paper, he explained, it would be obvious he was hired simply because of his race. (Williams was black).…
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By Selwyn Duke It was less than a year ago that journalist Piers Morgan published his book Woke is Dead. “How Common Sense Triumphed in an Age of Total Madness,” the subtitle reads. If it has triumphed, though, some critics may wonder, why are woke bullets and bombs still raining down?
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By Selwyn Duke There shall be no law “prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” says our First Amendment about religious freedom. State constitutions, including Ohio’s, also have strong protections for exercise of faith. Yet you wouldn’t know it, critics may say, judging from the behavior of University Heights, Ohio. Because according to that municipality’s city fathers,…
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By Selwyn Duke “A man’s home is his castle.” Or, that’s how it’s supposed to be, anyway. Is it really the case, though, when government can breach the castle walls with property-appraisal increases anytime it pleases? Whose castle is it when you’re essentially paying rent to the government? Whose is it when, if you can’t…
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“Trans” Man Leaves U.S., Fearing Trump; Begs to Return After Being Put in Muslim-heavy Asylum Center
By Selwyn Duke The grass is always meaner on the other side of the fence, could be the moral of this story. A “trans” man flees the United States, claiming he lived in fear with the rise of President Donald Trump. He then travels to Holland, a “tolerant,” recreational-drug-replete, “trans”-friendly land and claims asylum. So…
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By Selwyn Duke Here’s something many Americans don’t know: There is no category in American law such as “hate speech.” It doesn’t exist. Some people nonetheless behave as if it does — including many who sit on legal benches and juries. Some would say this is the reality, too, with a Minnesota court case that…
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By Selwyn Duke “I vote for the person, not the party,” people will proudly say. This is considered the enlightened position, taken by “free thinking” Americans unconstrained by partisan politics. Why, they’re fair-minded: They judge every politician as an individual. Here’s what no one says: In general elections, this is often what demagogues want you…
