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  • Guest Commentary: And That’s The Way it Wasn’t – Walter Cronkite

    By Bruce Walker By all accounts, Walter Cronkite was a kindly, almost avuncular figure.  Many members of the journalist community have written eulogies of his decency and humility.  He had a long, happy marriage.  These things should count to us conservatives, who yearn for human life to be more about how it is lived than…

  • Savage Appearance: Critics Rebuke Pope Benedict XVI — 05/22/2009

    https://selwynduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/savage-presentation-critics-rebuke-pope-benedict-5-22-09.mp3 Critics Rebuke Pope Benedict XVI — 05/22/2009

  • Guest Piece: The Biggest Problem of the Mainstream Media

    By Bruce Walker The media – newspapers, magazines, book publishing, radio, television, and film – have never at any point in the history of our nation been impartial.  Newspapers were once the whole heart and substance of our media.  They provided news, opinion, entertainment, advice, humor, advertisements and information.  Newspapers were often unabashed partisans.

  • The Tears of the Goddess of Liberty

    By Bruce Walker Twenty years ago the light of liberty flickered briefly in China.  In May 1989, Chinese students built a “Goddess of Liberty,” alternatively called a “Goddess of Democracy,” in Tiananmen Square.  Throughout much of China, the subjects of the nation, on the fortieth anniversary of the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War,…

  • Critics Rebuke Pope Benedict XVI

    By Selwyn Duke Pope Benedict XVI gave a speech at Israel’s Yad Veshem Holocaust Memorial this past Monday, during which he paid tribute to the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide. His words were not well-received by all, however, as some Israeli critics expected an apology from Benedict and felt that he was “restrained” in his…

  • Guest Piece: Finance Capitalists and Scapegoats

    By Bruce Walker The doctored outrage at AIG executives raises one of the ugliest specters in modern political history:  mindless fury directed at “Finance Capitalism.”  The profits of men who create goods and services is easy to defend.  Bill Gates gave us Windows.  T. Boone Pickens and Ross Perot drilled for oil.  Sam Walton retailed…

  • Why Stop With Global Warming?

    By Bruce Walker The heavy artillery of the Left has been wheeled into a line of barrage:  global warming is real; global warming is man-made; and if government does not stop, terrible things will happen.   This means  that we cannot save ourselves unless we are willing to make draconian sacrifices, to surrender our liberties to…

  • Duke Responds to Poster: In Defense of the White Man

    By Selwyn Duke Not surprisingly, my recent piece "In Defense of the White Man," evoked a tremendous response (emails are still coming in).  Also not surprising is that some of them were negative and expressed some very common misconceptions relating to the article's subject matter.  Because of this, and being that the issue at hand…

  • In Defense of the White Man

    By Selwyn Duke While many believe that prejudice has diminished over time, it’s not really true.  Prejudice is much like the wind: Its direction changes, and the sheltered and well-situated may not sense it, but it’s always blowing on some people somewhere.  Put literally, every age has its fashionable biases – and unfashionable people.

  • Guest Piece: The Descent of Darwinism

    By Bruce Walker Darwin was born two hundred years ago this month.  A serious and decent man, Darwin’s name has become connected with modern Darwinism. Today the Theory of Evolution of Species by Natural Selection has been mystically elevated from a “Theory” into a “Law,” which it is not.  As a working theory, evolution by…