Category: Culture
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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 If you want to know why there will be more Karmelo Anthonys — angry black youth all too willing to kill whites — look no further than diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training offered by the Illinois government. It portrays white people and police as mosquitoes inflicting “microaggression” bites that maddeningly accumulate…
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By Selwyn Duke “Sex is not messed up because it was put in the closet,” goes a paraphrase of philosopher C.S. Lewis. “It was put in the closet because it was messed up.” Some Americans may be rediscovering this truth, too, if the latest Gallup poll is any guide. It finds that Republican support for…
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By Selwyn Duke Got a rat problem on your property? Don’t worry, under Oregon’s new animal-rights act, you’d still be able to deal with it. You’d just have to eliminate the 20, 30, or 40 rats in your yard using live-catch traps. You can then deliver the rodents to, well, whoever’s itching to have dozens…
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By Selwyn Duke There has been much talk in recent years about “misinformation” on social media. There’s relatively little focus, however, on the misinformation pumped directly into the most damaging place of all: young people’s minds. Moreover, this misinformation — or “brainwashing,” as a critic puts it — has supplanted real learning to the point…
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By Selwyn Duke “The white race is the cancer of human history…,” wrote feminist author Susan Sontag in 1967. Now, almost 60 years later, some may wonder: Has the white race become the cancer of marketing? Many have long noted that black Americans are overrepresented in commercials and ads. At the same time, others complain,…
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By Selwyn Duke In 2020, journalist Matthew Yglesias insisted we use increased immigration to grow the U.S. population to one billion. Our current 343-million number is insufficient to compete with a future China and India, his theory goes. Yet before we MACA — “Make America China Already!” — we should first ask a question: “What’s So…
