Category: Articles
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By Selwyn Duke Jason Arday was fêted and celebrated when he joined Cambridge University’s faculty in 2023. At 37, he was the prestigious institution’s youngest black professor, and no one wanted to look at him critically. The skids were so well greased that Cambridge turned a blind eye even when evidence piled up that Arday…
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By Selwyn Duke Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for Senate from Michigan last Tuesday. Or, did he? That is, legitimately. The question is apt because a new investigation has proven something striking: Illegal aliens did in fact vote in that race. Now a question arises: Was the vote fraud great enough to have…
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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…
