Category: Culture
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By Selwyn Duke “Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals,” wrote philosopher G.K. Chesterton in 1910. “They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.” Really, though, what gives worthwhile “old ideals” their value is not that they’re old — it’s that they’re eternal. So many in our…
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By Selwyn Duke Feminist sports icon Billie Jean King is at it again, oblivious to economics and banging on about “equal pay” for female tennis players. It apparently never occurs to her that there’s one way to get the men’s money. The same way the men do: Compete on the men’s tour and succeed. Oh,…
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By Selwyn Duke Try this on for size: Massachusetts law restricts cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Part of the justification for this, they say, is avoiding “family separation.” Yet the same state has just separated a family — stealing a daughter from her parents. And why? After the girl’s school “socially transitioned” her…
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By Selwyn Duke “How do you write women so well?” novelist Melvin Udall was asked in the 1997 film As Good as It Gets. “I think of a man,” he replied, “and I take away reason and accountability.” This comes to mind while pondering the Lindsay Clancy situation. Oh, I’m not currently editorializing on whether…
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By Selwyn Duke In 2015, Sweden had the highest (im)migration rate in Europe relative to population. The country became infamous, with stories about failed assimilation, Muslim-controlled “no-go zones,” and immigrationist persecution of nationalists. But then the worm began turning. For almost the first half of 2024 (through May), the nation actually had more emigration than…
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By Selwyn Duke “The end goal of feminist revolution must be … not just the elimination of male privilege,” wrote feminist Shulamith Firestone in 1970, “but of the sex distinction itself.” “Genital differences between human beings,” she added, “would no longer matter culturally.” Firestone doesn’t get much credit for it, but her standard became feminist…
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By Selwyn Duke “Great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment,” wrote infamous communism co-founder Karl Marx in 1868. Interestingly, too, it was a convention in 1848, the same exact year Marx’s Communist Manifesto was published, that’s often cited as marking “first-wave” American feminism’s birth. So the ideology has been around a long time…
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By Selwyn Duke Have the Democrats really transitioned from the radical party of just a few years ago to sanity? That’s certainly what the current marketing holds. Why, we’re supposed to believe Senate candidate James Talarico (D-Texas) has made that transition just during the last few months. But, warns billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, don’t…
