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  • Guest Commentary: Our Foolish Infatuation with Change

    By Bruce Walker Barack Obama won the presidency based upon the theme of change.  We already live in a world of constant change, and we assume too easily that change is good. Politicians, professors, pundits, self-proclaimed champions of the oppressed – those with vested interests in change – repeat the lie that change makes things…

  • Race in the Third Millennium

    By Selwyn Duke Although the show was propaganda produced by leftist Norman Lear, no one could accuse “All in the Family” of not being funny.  Its protagonist, blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker, is one of those legendary television characters, and one of his uproarious lines is apropos here.  It was uttered during a scene in which…

  • Ex-KGB Defector on Demoralization in America http://youtube.com/v/qlpODYhnPEoThis is a very interesting video a reader sent me featuring Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov. He was a KGB man who was trained in subversion and who has some very interesting things to report about how communists work to corrupt the judgment and degrade the will of a targeted…

  • Was Civilization Always Promiscuous? Duke Responds to Poster

    By Selwyn Duke Was society always as promiscuous as today?  The answer to this question should be obvious, yet there are people who would say yes.  One of them responded to my piece "Does Pro-life Now Mean Pro-libertinism?" saying that the idea of traditional values before the time of the sexual revolution is a myth. …

  • Written in the Eternal Constitution

    This article originally appeared in the April 14, 2008 issue of The New American magazine. By Selwyn Duke Sixty years before Christ's birth, great orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero watched plaintively as his republic faded before his eyes and Julius Caesar became the first Roman emperor. As today, some felt betrayed by their leaders,…

  • 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.