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  • Mayor Mamdani Vows to Replace “Individualism” With “the Warmth of Collectivism”

    By Selwyn Duke “My skin literally crawled.” So said New York City council member Vickie Paladino in response to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address. What gave Paladino the creeps was a comment so eyebrow-raising that an editor of mine first thought it was parody. “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism,” Mamdani said on…

  • Mamdani’s Maniacal Minions: Mayor-elect Hiring Far-left Radicals to Run NYC (Into the Ground?)

    By Selwyn Duke Shortly after Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral victory, I asked in a headline, “In Power, Will Mamdani Be Socialist — or Sly.” Now it appears we may have the answer in an actions-speak-louder-than-words way. That is, the “democratic socialist” mayor-elect is appointing one far-left radical after another to his administration. Among his picks…

  • The Wrong Red Wave: More Than 250 “Democratic Socialists” Now in Office

    By Selwyn Duke Meet Hannah Shvets, a 20-year-old Cornell University sophomore and one of the newest members of New York’s Ithaca Common Council. Shvets is also a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). She additionally has membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), as does New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, whom she…

  • Red Alert: Why Support for Socialism Is Growing

    By Selwyn Duke Here’s a question: What percentage of all the people who’ve ever lived on Earth is the average American richer than? Answer: 99.9 percent. We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet many people are still dissatisfied. They feel as if they’ve been denied some birthright, some societal bequeathment. And, recent survey data have…

  • In Power, Will Mamdani Be Socialist — or Sly?

    By Selwyn Duke Escape from New York is the name of a 1981 film. Now it’s also, many fear, going to be a reality with Mayor-elect Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s impending socialist makeover of NYC. Why, commentator Bill O’Reilly has predicted that his ascendancy will spark an exodus of 765,000-one million Big Apple residents. This, of course,…

  • Almost a Republican Sweep Last Night—if Only Men Voted

    By Selwyn Duke It’s called the “gender gap” (should be “sex gap,” really) in voting, and, boy, did it ever manifest itself last night. In fact, Tuesday, November 4 was a great day for the GOP. That is, in an alternate universe in which only men vote. Let’s go down the list. In Virginia there…

  • Beck and Hanson Warn: “How America Elects a Socialist President in 2028”

    By Selwyn Duke “The Democratic Party won’t be in power for a long, long time now,” we hear. The idea is that there has been a “realignment” and/or that the wrong ideology (wokeness) has hobbled the party. Well, we’ve seen this movie and its remakes before. The ending is always the same, too. After Republican President Richard…

  • Duke on TV: My Latest Appearance on Patriot TV—7/1/25

    By Selwyn Duke We discussed the U.S.'s moral decay, among other things. For my appearance and its introduction, fast-forward to 33:50.

  • The Untold Reason for Mamdani’s Mayoral Win

    By Selwyn Duke There’s a reason why, historically, demagogues have been so successful. It’s one we ignore at our own peril, too, because it holds the key to future political victory. The NYC mayoral Democrat primary race results have shaken the political world. Candidate Zohran Mamdani, described as a Marxist Muslim, was five months ago…