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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • SCOTUS’ Chiles Decision Strikes a Blow Against Homo/“Trans” Lobby — and for Freedom

    By Selwyn Duke The Supreme Court just struck a blow against a very perverse double standard, one common in many states. That standard is this: You can prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for a child and scar him for life. This is in service to the delusion that the youth is stuck in the…

  • Rescuing Western Civilization From Its “Domestic Enemies”

    By Selwyn Duke It is interesting to note that both ancient Greece, the “cradle of Western civilization,” and the Roman Empire, which spread Western civilization, declined and “fell” due partially to internal divisions. Another point to ponder is something Salvian of Marseilles, a Christian priest, observed in the mid fifth century: Does such loathing (though…

  • 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…

  • Yes, We Can, Brandon Johnson — Jail Our Way to a Safe Country

    By Selwyn Duke “We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence,” stated Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson recently. Actually, we can. So might say a retired police detective who has witnessed the phenomenon firsthand. And, no, this doesn’t require locking up 15 million Americans. All that’s necessary, says Mike McDaniel, that ex-cop-turned commentator, is delivering a…