Category: Articles
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By Selwyn Duke “I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honorable and viable political act,” said Robin Morgan, a Ms. magazine editor and prominent “second-wave” feminist, in a 1973 speech. Morgan passed away just days ago, but her spirit not only lives on; it has metastasized. The evidence? A new survey has found that a striking majority of…
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By Selwyn Duke It may be the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), but what it isn’t, at least not anymore, is the Centers for Gun Control. While the CDC did once fund anti-Second Amendment “research,” a 1996 law put an end to such advocacy. In later years the worm fully turned, with the agency actually…
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By Selwyn Duke It was decades ago now that commentator Alan Keyes, responding to talk of “crises” (e.g., the economic crisis), added perspective. The real crisis we need worry about, he warned, is our “moral crisis.” Virtue in the people is the root of the tree. Take care of that and all else falls into place. The…
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By Selwyn Duke Pajama bottoms; crop tops; leggings as pants; du-rags; gangsta-style, sagging trousers; hoodies; and underwear showing. Modern times have become synonymous with declining standards, and all the preceding are seen in today’s schools. Not, however, at Tuskegee University (TU) in Alabama — and not under President Mark Brown’s watch. Historically black TU has…
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By Selwyn Duke “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” goes a paraphrase of philosopher Bertrand Russell. Some of these ideas, however, are not so absurd that a campaigning politician wouldn’t mouth them. This could come to mind with a recent comment from Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.). Addressing…
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By Selwyn Duke Fourteen years ago, I wrote a piece titled “Does the GOP’s Demographic Death Spiral End in a Texas Graveyard?” Its theme was that demographic and cultural changes were making it increasingly difficult for Republicans to win national elections. And once these factors turned Texas “blue,” the GOP would be singin’ the blues. That is,…
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By Selwyn Duke In 2000, candidate John Loew pursued a novel way to gain an advantage in his Los Angeles County assessor’s race. He legally changed his name to John Lower Taxes Loew so that it would thus appear on the ballot. He ultimately wasn’t the winner, though. But he was something else: a piker…
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By Selwyn Duke As the erasure of Western culture continues apace, two stories from the past week stand out. One involves a black Christian pastor in Dearborn, Michigan, who warned that “we have lost this city” to Sharia law. The second concerns a Nigerian-born “racism czar” in Ireland who just told the Irish to stop…
