Category: Crime and Justice
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By Selwyn Duke In 1811, Joseph de Maistre, a French philosopher who detested the French Revolution, famously said: “People get the government they deserve.” In light of recent events in France and elsewhere, however, something else comes to mind: Do people get the riots they deserve, too? Maybe—sometimes. Now, I’ll preface my remarks by saying…
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By Selwyn Duke It’s an amazing, though ignored, story: Murder in the United States is at its lowest level since perhaps 1900. As for the violent-crime rate in general, it fell 9.3 percent in 2025. This is the largest year-to-year decline since the FBI began estimating national trends in 1936. Something else at its lowest…
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By Selwyn Duke Napoleon Bonaparte once said that history is “a series of agreed-upon myths.” Yet that current events can be, too, brings us to a question. Can the Democrats win the midterms only if Americans subscribe to a certain myth? That is, the idea that President Donald Trump’s second term has been a failure.…
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By Selwyn Duke “Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians,” warned intellectual Thomas Sowell, “who must be civilized before it is too late.” And much we’ve seen for many years now raises a question: Is it already too late? With video-recording devices everywhere today, we get to witness…
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By Selwyn Duke An interesting thing happened years ago when undercover reporters, posing as an anti-firearms group, approached liberal journalist Bob Braun with a large sign stating, “THIS HOME IS PROUDLY GUN FREE.” They wanted to know: Would you support the cause and display it on your lawn? “I agree with you and I am…
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By Selwyn Duke The identity of the co-pilot who tried to violently take over a flydubai jet Wednesday hasn’t been released. Yet there’s now information indicating he was, as a source puts it, a “religious extremist.” And, no, this doesn’t mean a Quaker or Anabaptist. Many officials believe the Omani co-pilot, presumably a jihadist-minded Muslim,…
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By Selwyn Duke It was during the French Revolution, that bloody 10-year affair, that modern “leftism” was officially born. We’re seeing shades of it, too, in France currently, with widespread rioting, arson, vandalism, and looting. This is the result of what are called “protests,” ostensibly motivated by a desire for better school conditions. (And, of…
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By Selwyn Duke In the legendary 1957 film 12 Angry Men, one holdout juror initially prevents a conviction in a murder trial. “Juror 8” (played by Henry Fonda) says he’s just not yet convinced of the defendant’s guilt. Through persuasion, reasoned analysis, and a little shaming, he leads an effort that eventually results in a…
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By Selwyn Duke The Muslim rape-gang scandal in the U.K. made headlines some years ago. Thousands of indigenous British girls were sexually abused and tortured by grown men while woke authorities turned a blind eye. Now we have the junior-league version of this, albeit on a smaller scale. In this case, a 15-year-old Iraqi-descent boy…
