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Category: Morality

  • Is AI Creating a “Society of Cheats” — and Incompetents?

    By Selwyn Duke It was decades ago now that commentator Alan Keyes, responding to talk of “crises” (e.g., the economic crisis), added perspective. The real crisis we need worry about, he warned, is our “moral crisis.” Virtue in the people is the root of the tree. Take care of that and all else falls into place. The…

  • Midterm Madness: Is the GOP’s Texas Graveyard Drawing Near?

    By Selwyn Duke Fourteen years ago, I wrote a piece titled “Does the GOP’s Demographic Death Spiral End in a Texas Graveyard?” Its theme was that demographic and cultural changes were making it increasingly difficult for Republicans to win national elections. And once these factors turned Texas “blue,” the GOP would be singin’ the blues. That is,…

  • Socialism: Savior or Seductress?

    By Selwyn Duke A Rasmussen poll last September discovered something Americans once found unthinkable: Fifty-three percent of likely voters aged 18 to 39 want a “democratic socialist” elected president in 2028. And that’s not all. Seventy-six percent of these under-40s believe that major industries “like health care, energy, and big tech should be nationalized to…

  • First Amendment at Risk: Was Shiloh Hendrix Actually Convicted of “Hate Speech” — in America?

    By Selwyn Duke Here’s something many Americans don’t know: There is no category in American law such as “hate speech.” It doesn’t exist. Some people nonetheless behave as if it does — including many who sit on legal benches and juries. Some would say this is the reality, too, with a Minnesota court case that…

  • Is the Republic Falling — With a Sudden Collapse in Our Future?

    By Selwyn Duke “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury,” goes the famous apocryphal warning. “From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits….” The result of this “is that every…

  • Is Our “Equality” Obsession Destroying Our Nation?

    By Selwyn Duke “Equality tells us nothing about quality.” This is a simple truth — hiding in plain sight. Would we, after all, rather have equality in poverty or inequality in abundance? Would we prefer the equality of all being deathly ill or the inequality of varying levels of health? Would we choose equality in…

  • Wealthy Leftists: Stealing Is OK for Us — and Sometimes Murder, Too

    By Selwyn Duke What happens when you raise generations not with virtue but with “situational values”? What’s the result when kids are pandered to, coddled, never told “No!” and get participation trophies? One result just may be wealthy, spoiled adults who believe its okay for them to steal and even, sometimes, murder. Oh, they have their rationalizations…

  • Communism Is Sneaking Up on Us Americans; In Fact, It’s Nipping at Our Heels

    By Selwyn Duke “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism,” goes the apocryphal saying generally attributed to six-time presidential candidate Norman Thomas. “But, under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

  • Writer Asks: Why Is Today’s Democratic Party So “Heartless”?

    By Selwyn Duke Not long ago I met a very impressive and unusual 20-year-old man. Having already imbibed great literary works and philosophical material as most of his age-mates do social-media dross, he is what the average 50-year-old philosophy professor would be if he actually, well, understood philosophy (i.e., that it is “a search for…

  • American Women Are Struggling — With Rampant Sexual Confusion Exhibit A

    Image credit: Grok AI. By Selwyn Duke For years now, article after article has been written about how young men are struggling. They fare worse in school than young women and are less likely to graduate college, we hear. Young men have mental-health issues and are more apt to commit suicide. They are socially isolated…