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By Selwyn Duke “I was anxious. I felt guilty constantly. I couldn’t stop thinking about the whole white privilege thing.” This is what Lucy Kross got for her money as a Stanford University student (yearly tuition, room, and board: $76,312). She would eventually realize she’d been deceived and, it could be said, intellectually abused —…
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By Selwyn Duke Most “mentally ill” people are on the political left, Harvard professor Arthur Brooks explained last year. In 2016, the American Journal of Political Science reported that liberal political beliefs are linked to psychoticism. A decade earlier, radio legend Dr. Michael Savage released his eyebrow-raising book Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder. But could it really be that there’s an association between…
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By Selwyn Duke “This is the end of marriage, capitalism and God. Finally!” a 2016 Salon title jubilantly proclaimed. Religion has been in decline in the West, too. But “This Christmas Seems Different” (yes, it’s still Christmastime), says a writer — at The New York Times, no less. That writer, man of faith Ross Douthat, senses a religious revival, though…
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By Selwyn Duke Dating back to the Middle Ages, the town of Semestene in Sardinia, Italy, has quite a history — one that could come to an end within a decade. With a population that has dwindled rapidly in recent years, 54 of its 126 residents are aged 65 or over. The town has just four children under…
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By Selwyn Duke It’s that season again, that time for New Year’s resolutions, when we put our minds to perhaps giving up junk food or engaging in regular exercise. Yet while this is all well and good, even better is to add to it the aim of purging the spiritual junk food of sin from…
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The choices we make in our daily lives shape our culture and the type of country we have. After all, politics is downstream from culture. By Selwyn Duke With President Donald Trump’s historic and resounding election victory, many are relieved. His supporters may feel, “Mission accomplished!” while his opponents (those not throwing tantrums) might’ve resigned…
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By Selwyn Duke "Liberalism is a mental disorder," commentator and ex-radio host Michael Savage would say, uttering a line that became one of his book titles. Critics might label this assertion polemics designed to boost entertainment value, but it may be vindicated by research. Just consider the 2021 study finding that more than 50 percent…
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By Selwyn Duke “We make a living by what we get,” said Winston Churchill, “but we make a life by what we give.” Well more than 2,000 years before, ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu also sang charity’s praises. “The wise man does not lay up his own treasures,” he averred. “The more he gives to…
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By Selwyn Duke If “tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions,” as G.K. Chesterton put it, a question suggests itself: Is intolerance the virtue of the principled man? Literally speaking, neither tolerance nor intolerance is a “virtue”; that is, one of those defined “objectively good moral habits.” Exhibiting each, however, in its proper…
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By Selwyn Duke There’s “wisdom from the mouths of babes” and then there’s, well, what CNN found in a recent study. That is, despite liberals’ chest-thumping about their “tolerance,” they’re not the ones raising tolerant kids. Oh, it isn’t just that “Democrat-leaning” children are far more negative about Donald Trump than “Republican-leaning” children are about…
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