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  • Americans Who Fled to the Soviet Union

    By Selwyn Duke There is a price to be paid for embracing lies.  This truth is never more evident than in an almost-forgotten story from American history: The depression-era emigration of Americans to the Soviet Union. 

  • Hitler and Christianity

    By Selwyn Duke    Long ago, during the darkest chapter of the 20th century, a movie was released entitled Hitler’s Children. While the film is virtually forgotten, I cannot forget a certain scene involving some words a Nazi official uttered to a dissident, a heroic Catholic bishop. Dripping with contempt, the officer said (I’m paraphrasing),…

  • A Rabbi Defending a Pope

    By Selwyn Duke I truly cannot think of a more unfairly-maligned individual than Pope Pius XII, the pontiff during the darkest days of WWII.  Even Senator Joe McCarthy, who has been relegated to Dante’s seventh circle of Hell by revisionist historians, has not been demonized like Pius.  And the destruction of the Pope’s reputation is…

  • Exposing the Galileo Myth

    By Selwyn Duke I responded today to an American Thinker piece by fellow AT contributor James Lewis titled "The Epicycles of Global Warming."  While Lewis’ article was very well done, it included a recapitulation of the Galileo myth, and I was moved to address it.  Here is my response:

  • Chesterton on War

    Nevertheless, there is a queer quality in that time [the Middles Ages]; which, while it was international was also internal and intimate. War, in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men disagree, but because more men agree.

  • Reconsidering the Inquisition

    A columnist named Vox Day wrote an excellent piece in which he puts the Spanish Inquisition in perspective.   Day, and intelligent man who has obviously done his homework (I can’t say much for his haircut, though), starts out:

  • The Coming Global Cooling

    By Selwyn Duke When I was a lad in primary school, we were warned of climate change. It was a tad scary, too, as the prospect of becoming an ice sickle in a frozen wasteland wasn’t very appealing. Hey, we wanted to be able to go outside and sometimes play with balls not made out…

  • John McManus Piece: Trashing McCarthy Becomes a Lot More Difficult

    Writer John McManus has a terrific piece about who is perhaps the most unfairly maligned man in American history, Joe McCarthy.  McManus makes the case that McCarthy was correct: There was communist infiltration in the U.S. government in the 1950s.  And, of course, not only is this true, but now those individuals get to run…