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Category: History
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By Selwyn Duke The first man who staked out a piece of ground and said “This is mine” was a liar, goes a paraphrase of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Yet that man also, the philosopher stated, “was the real founder of civil society.” Rousseau was no fan of our Western civil society, but perhaps that makes his statement even…
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By Selwyn Duke “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose,” noted Austrian psychiatrist/philosopher Viktor Frankl. Much has been written about the need for meaning, in recent years especially. Without it, a person can descend into a morass of addiction, degradation, and self-destruction. The same, however, is true…
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By Selwyn Duke Napoleon Bonaparte once said that “history is a series of agreed-upon myths.” Famed documentarian Ken Burns may agree, too, to the point where he has reportedly become one of the myth makers. At issue is a new six-part, 12-hour-long series titled The American Revolution (TAR) which, say critics, strays into anti-American fiction. It’s apparently…
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By Selwyn Duke It’s arguable that the people who complain about slavery most actually may love it, in a perverse way. After all, it provides so many with excuses for failure, anti-Western talking points, and opportunities to extract hand-outs. Just consider “reparations,” which are now continually demanded (by people enslaved only by their own indoctrination).…
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Image created using Grok AI. By Selwyn Duke It’s like 20 9/11s — or 50 October 7s. That’s approximately how many Christians have been murdered by Islamic jihadists in Africa just during the past decade. This “silent genocide,” as one ex-U.S. diplomat puts it, is still ongoing, too. It’s all part of an Islamic State…
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