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  • Can We MAGA Unless We MAMA — Make America Moral Again?

    By Selwyn Duke “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.” So said George Washington during his Farewell Address on September 17, 1796. They’re powerful parting words, but also, today, controversial ones. They’re met now with protestations such as “Whose God?!” and “You can be moral without God!” Well,…

  • Asked (and Answered?): Is the Left Stupid or Evil — or Something Else?

    By Selwyn Duke It’s common, and tempting, to dismiss one’s political opponents as “stupid.” Liberals may call conservatives “mouth-breathers” or “MAGA-billies,” while conservatives may hurl pejoratives such as “libtards” or “Dumbocrats.” This can be emotionally pleasing and sometimes, perhaps, even rhetorically effective. But does conservatives’ “stupidity” narrative blind them to darker realities and deeper dangers?

  • Follow the Science … to God? The New Atheism Is Being Disproven

    By Selwyn Duke A story in the news some days ago held that Noah’s ark’s resting place had been “100% confirmed.” This wasn’t actually true. What is, however, is that science is proving something else: “New Atheism’s” ship has sailed — and maybe even sunk. Almost a generation ago now, in 2006, biologist Richard Dawkins…

  • Re-educating America: Classical Schools and “Old Ideals” Can Bring New Success

    By Selwyn Duke “Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals,” wrote philosopher G.K. Chesterton in 1910. “They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.” Really, though, what gives worthwhile “old ideals” their value is not that they’re old — it’s that they’re eternal. So many in our…

  • Democratic Candidate Wants MAGA Members Burnt to Ashes? If So, She’s Not Alone

    By Selwyn Duke Call it a somewhat different version of Zohran Mamdani’s “warmth of collectivism.” Candidate Shelly Headen, a North Carolina Democrat seeking a state House seat, believes that Trump supporters belong in death-camp crematoria. And that’s not all. Headen has also called for an attack on United States soil. This should “preferably” happen in…

  • It’s Called “Leftism” — but Is It Actually Something Far Darker Than Politics?

    By Selwyn Duke “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law,” early-20th-century occultist Aleister Crowley infamously said. He was dubbed “the wickedest man in the world” at the time, but he had much competition. Communist Vladimir Lenin was an example, popularizing the formula “Who Whom?” This meant that politics is all about…

  • 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…

  • Graham Platner’s Gone, but Does He Merely Reflect Democratic Party Values?

    In 2006, it emerged that then-congressman Mark Foley (R-Fla.) had sent sexually explicit texts to a male congressional page. This made a continued career in GOP politics untenable, and he resigned from office the very next day. In 1989, it was revealed that a male prostitution/call-boy operation was being run out of the D.C. apartment…

  • Have Conservatives Ever Seen a Culture War Battle They Couldn’t Lose?

    By Selwyn Duke “Republicans are conservatives,” said author and CEO Kenin Spivak recently. “Conservatives are conservative.” This tautology was uttered to answer a question: Why do Republicans lose social and cultural wars despite winning elections?

  • Recently Asked: “Why Do Democrats Hate America?”

    By Selwyn Duke It raised eyebrows when Michelle Obama said at a 2008 campaign rally, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.” (And all it took was her husband becoming a probable presidential nominee.) But she’s not alone in lacking pride. In fact, a 2025 Gallup poll found that…