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  • To MAGA, We Don’t Need “Virtue-signaling,” but Pure Virtue Itself

    By Selwyn Duke It’s a shame, and a sign of the times, that we mostly hear the term “virtue” via that misbegotten newer term “virtue-signaling.” Oh, the critique the latter denotes is absolutely valid, but packaging matters. (Thus do I use “value-signaling” instead.) Illustrating why was a reader reaction to one of my articles years…

  • Trump vs. Leftists on Juneteenth: Is It Just a DEI Holiday?

    By Selwyn Duke Affirmative-action holidays, encouraged by value-signaling white liberals, are quite something. A Zambian friend of mine once remarked that in Africa he’d never even heard of “Kwanzaa,” a supposedly African holiday coinciding with Christmas. Of course not. It was made up out of whole cloth in 1966 by black American activist and criminal…

  • Minnesota Political Assassinations: The Fruits of Democratic Words and Deeds

    By Selwyn Duke Social norms are funny things, hardly set in stone. There was a time when vulgarity was unheard in our films; now its ubiquitous in them — and the wider society. In the 1950s, boys might take rifles on NYC’s subways because they had shooting clubs at their government schools. Now these institutions…

  • Why Honesty Is the Key to MAGA — and the Good Life

    By Selwyn Duke Many years ago now, I encountered a man wearing a T-shirt stating “Everybody lies, nobody cares.” I thankfully never saw that shirt again. But I did think to myself at the time, “Well, I don’t lie — and I do care.” We all should. No one had to explain why, either, to John Birch…

  • Immigration Tyranny and Violence: What’s Really Happening in Northern Ireland?

    By Selwyn Duke Here’s a thought exercise: Imagine a substantial number of Europeans are being moved into some indigenous South Americans’ territory. Now imagine a percentage of them are “illegals” and, what’s more, that they’re given government-funded housing locals often can’t afford. Imagine, too, that this drives up rent further, making the housing even more…

  • Jake Tapper Gets Taste of How the Revolution He Enabled Eats Its Own

    By Selwyn Duke Be careful about the beasts you create, the beasts you nurture, the beasts you feed. Liberal pundit Juan Williams learned this (or did he?) the hard way in 2010, when NPR fired him after a confession that seeing people in Muslim garb on airplanes made him nervous. (Apparently, you can’t be liberal and human.)…

  • Should Once-colonized Lands Thank God for Their Colonizers?

    By Selwyn Duke Years ago I had an African friend, from Zambia, who mentioned his participation in a school debate on colonialism. He took the position that it was a net positive for his land. Then there was the Indian man I knew who despised Mohandas Gandhi (whose image is far different from the reality). He said, spewing a tad…

  • The Yawning Electorate: “Black Fatigue” in America Is Real — and Intensifying

    By Selwyn Duke In case you missed it, and the most blessed among us did, Sunday was the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death. Activists who didn’t succeed in getting police defunded, and others, gathered to mark the event and have a complaint-fest. Race hustler “Reverend” Al Sharpton, for example, compared Floyd’s plight to that…

  • Study: In Germany, Foreign-born Muslim Women Are MORE Violent Than German Men

    By Selwyn Duke We’ve been told by our “betters,” in a variety of ways, that the (actually long-extinct) thing called the Western “patriarchy” imperils women. Why, the miniseries Adolescence instructs that what you really must fear, Karen, are cute little 13-year-old English boys. But new data out of Germany, relating to a recent-years crime spike, tell a…

  • Study: Most Americans Are “Unbiblical” Moral Relativists — and It Invites Tyranny

    By Selwyn Duke Addressing a large group of arrivals in Hell, the Devil said, reassuringly, “You’ll find there’s no right or wrong here. Just what works for you.” That scene, presented on a 1977 New Yorker magazine cover, well epitomizes our time, a new study has found. In fact, the research shows, most Americans reject moral absolutes…