Category: Culture

Equality, That Bold Lie? Or Inequality, That Beautiful Default?

November 8, 2025

By Selwyn Duke “Equality is unfair!” proclaimed TV curmudgeon Archie Bunker in a 1974 All in the Family episode. “What’s the point of a man working hard all of his life trying to get someplace,” he bellowed, gesticulating wildly, “if all he’s going to do is wind up equal?!” It was a hilarious scene and line and,…
Stopping the Bleeding: Time for a Moratorium on Immigration?

November 6, 2025

By Selwyn Duke “The definition of insanity,” the apocryphal saying goes, “is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” Is there an exception to this rule? Or does it apply to everything, including immigration? Writing at Fox News, Nate Morris has his answer: There must be a moratorium on…
Migrant-Youth Crime Exploding in Various European Countries (Yet Some Won’t Prosecute Under-15s)

November 5, 2025

By Selwyn Duke After evaluating 45,000 youths, an interesting study out of Germany found that with increasing religiosity, Christian teens became less violent. The research also found, however, that with increasing religiosity, Muslim teens became more violent. That was back in 2010. Now, 15 years later, another study in Germany finds that violence among migrant children is exploding.…
Beyond the Cotton Field: How “Racist” Was Pre-Civil-Rights-Era America, Really?

November 4, 2025

By Selwyn Duke The story of George Franklin Grant, a dentist, academic and recreational golfer, is interesting. This isn’t just because he, a Harvard professor, invented a wood-composite golf tee in 1899. It’s that under many Americans’ conception of history, he shouldn’t even have existed. You see, Grant was a successful black man in the…
That Delicate Thing, the Rule of Law, Is Dying. Who Is Killing It?

November 2, 2025

By Selwyn Duke As with representative government, the “rule of law” has been an anomaly on the world scene, historically speaking. The Romans had it; in fact, they essentially gave us the concept of the rule of law. It is the norm today, too, in the lands they most influenced, those of the modern West.…
Puerto Rico: Statehood for a “Nation” That Will Never, Ever Assimilate?

October 29, 2025

By Selwyn Duke “Puerto Rico doesn’t have to be ‘American’ to be a friend of America. Let it be what it already is — a nation.” So editorializes Javier A. Hernández, a Puerto Rican author, linguist, educator, and former federal official. And Hernández is one more thing, too: a pro-Puerto Rico sovereignty advocate. So his…
“Woke Is Dead”? In Reality, the Monster Looms, Waiting to Deliver the West’s Coup de Grâce

October 27, 2025

By Selwyn Duke Woke is Dead reads the title of journalist Piers Morgan’s recently rolled out book. President Donald Trump may subscribe to Morgan’s thesis, too; he said months ago that the U.S. is “woke no longer.” If only. The reality is that wokeness, asserts The Christian Post, “isn’t dead, dying, hospitalized or even hiding.” The Telegraph warns likewise,…
Islam Is Growing in U.S. While Christianity Fades

October 26, 2025

By Selwyn Duke The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting,” G.K. Chesterton noted in 1910. “It has been found difficult; and left untried.” Perhaps this helps explain why Christian adherence is in decline in the United Sates. On the other hand, whether or not Islam is found difficult, one thing is for…
Hollywood Narcissism and Celebrities Numerous “Gender Nonconforming” Kids

October 24, 2025

By Selwyn Duke If a person’s five-year-old daughter tells you she’s a unicorn, you may say “Aww, that’s cute.” It’s red-alert time, however, if she’s making the claim at 14. (Believing you’re an animal is a real phenomenon, associated with “species dysphoria.”) It would be even more alarming, too, if her parents boasted about how they…
“Woke” Culture Is Just Feminine Culture, Says Writer — and It’s Killing America

October 22, 2025

By Selwyn Duke What are the best indicators that a person will embrace left-wing authoritarianism? An interesting study, related by psychologist Jordan Peterson years ago, found that the best indicator was having low verbal intelligence. Number two was “being female.” None of this would surprise commentator Andrea Widburg. (I don’t think it did surprise her, either, when…

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