recent posts
- An Anti-“Hate Crime” Scheme Fails — Again
- Is Our “Equality” Obsession Destroying Our Nation?
- Digital Stepford Wives? Men Are Falling in Love With AI-generated Female Influencers
- Mask Drop: Democrats Come Closer to Saying, “Let’s Just Ban All Guns”
- Wealthy Leftists: Stealing Is OK for Us — and Sometimes Murder, Too
about
Category: Philosophy
-
By Selwyn Duke “Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers,” said then-Minnesota governor and ex-professional wrestler Jesse Ventura in 1999. It’s a common idea. Atheism’s point man Richard Dawkins has called even disorganized religion a crutch, author Robert Heinlein expressed this secular tenet through one of…
-
By Selwyn Duke If I pointed out that involvement in every major 20th-century conflict the US was part of occurred on liberals’ watch, it might not be entirely fair. True, there was WWI under Wilson, WWII under FDR, Korea under Truman, and Vietnam under Kennedy and Johnson. But the second Great War needed to be…
-
By Selwyn Duke There is this notion, one we hear more and more, that the Republican Party has to shed the social issues to seize the future. “Social issues are not the business of government!” says thoroughly modern millennial. It’s a seductive cry, one repeated this past Tuesday in an article about how some young…
-
By Selwyn Duke “I wanted to inflict pain on all young couples…. I was capable of killing them, and I wanted to. I wanted to kill them slowly, to strip the skins off their flesh. They deserve it. The males deserve it for taking the females away from me, and the females deserve it for…
-
By Selwyn Duke After being given the choice between reform school and the military, a juvenile delinquent of years past would sometimes be told, “The army will make a man out of you.” But today, critics may say, we can’t be sure what the army would make out of him — or what to make…
-
By Selwyn Duke A few years ago I participated in a radio debate on “white privilege” with a certain man, whose name is unimportant, who had a Ph.D. in “ethnic studies.” At one point he introduced an argument by saying, “If whites are 80 percent of the population…,” which prompted me to interject and point…
-
By Selwyn Duke As perhaps history’s most famous atheist, Friedrich Nietzsche understood that the death of Christian morality would usher in moral relativism and social breakdown. This truth is now largely ignored in an increasingly atheistic West, but it has found an unlikely — and, some would say, incredible — ally in Russian president Vladimir…
-
By Selwyn Duke God’s moderation is man’s extremism. This occurs to me when considering the remarks recently made by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. As you may know, the governor addressed a Republican schism while a guest on the New York Public Broadcasting radio show “The Capitol Pressroom” and said, “Extreme conservatives who are right-to-life,…
-
By Selwyn Duke This past December, the Duck Dynasty television show became “duck and cover,” with the forces of pinkness going nuclear on its patriarch, Phil Robertson, after he uttered some words about the most victimey of victim groups. For those who missed the story, the saga began when GQ interviewer Drew Magary asked Robertson…
-
By Selwyn Duke The Devil really is a fellow of wine and song, Playing a tune that trades right for wrong. The tone-deaf man will hear his notes and say, What could be wrong with being festive and gay? And when a sad tomorrow that tune does bring, Few will know that from their own…
selwynduke.com 