Category: Crime and Justice
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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 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 What’s yellow and green and shaking all over? Some would say it’s the globalist establishment, pondering the newly released film Citizen Vigilante (CV). If you haven’t yet heard of it, the movie is a hit with many fans while, some claim, fanning the flames of discontent. The antithesis of woke, it’s a…
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By Selwyn Duke When thinking about poor Austin Metcalf, I sometimes wonder about his reactions during those last fatal moments on April 2 of last year. When murderer Karmelo Anthony drew that knife, could he not, being young and athletic, have avoided at least a deadly strike? Perhaps Anthony was just too quick. But then…
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By Selwyn Duke “Is it better to be loved or feared?” the main mobster character, Sonny, was asked in the film A Bronx Tale (1993). His answer was that he’d like to enjoy both. But if he had to choose one, it would be fear, he stated, because “[f]ear lasts longer than love.” Of course,…
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By Selwyn Duke “I can’t breathe.” These were some of the final words of Henry Nowak, 18, a victim of a knifing — and British authorities’ wokeness. Nowak had repeatedly told police “I’ve been stabbed,” to which one cop replied, “I don’t think so, mate.” How’d they draw this conclusion? They took the word of…
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By Selwyn Duke “‘Transgender’ is not a legitimate medical status, but an ideological one,” I wrote in 2019. “Yet this truth won’t stop our time’s Lysenkoists from performing our age’s version of lobotomies. What will is being sued into irrelevancy.” Now something approximating this is finally happening, too. The latest example comes out of Texas, where state…
