Category: Culture
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By Selwyn Duke In our time we’ve traded wise men for experts — Confucius for the credentialed, Aquinas for academicians, Democritus for the degreed. Consequently, we don’t make our ancestors’ bush-league mistakes, such as the Romans using lead pipes, drilling holes in people’s heads to treat mental derangement, or selling radium-laced candy and water. We…
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By Selwyn Duke The kicker: The white students aren’t just being subordinated to black and Hispanic peers, whom they outperform academically. They also must take a back seat to Asian-descent students, who outperform them.
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By Selwyn Duke Imagine that Montana imported close to 400,000 Third World migrants, the equivalent of a medium-sized city such as Arlington, Texas, in just one year. Would that be a good idea? Could you foresee any problems with assimilation and manifold other issues? This question is apropos here because this is precisely what a…
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By Selwyn Duke If “work ennobles man,” as the saying goes, are we headed for a very ignoble future? If “cash is king” today, what will reign tomorrow? If an abundance of the material can bury the spiritual, are we headed for an ever-more intensified secularism? These questions could and should be asked with a…
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By Selwyn Duke It’s sadly ironic that a university founded in 1636 to train clergy has embraced the devilish religion of racist dogma. But this is the case, warns 40-year Harvard history professor James Hankins. In fact, it’s so bad that he has left the school. What’s at issue is damning, Hankins warns. Harvard University…
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By Selwyn Duke It’s not just economic activity that has been moving from a waning North to a burgeoning South in recent times. Intellectual activity is also making that move — contrary to stereotypes. Just consider Mississippi, a state oft mocked by urban arts-and-croissant pseudo-sophisticates. Leading the post-Covid recovery, it has gone from 49th to seventh nationally…
