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  • Right-wingers Are the Nice-wingers, While the Left is Bereft

    By Selwyn Duke I remember experiencing one of my first insights into the true nature of modern liberalism. I was 19 years old, sitting in an Indian restaurant with an erstwhile high school "buddy" who was talking about his aspirations. He concluded by waxing idealistic and saying "I want to do good things."

  • Demographic Winter

    By Selwyn Duke If you’re a frequent visitor to this site, you might have noticed a recent change, the lefthand-side banner advertisement for a documentary titled "Demographic Winter."  It’s the first ad ever to appear at SelwynDuke.com, and for good reason.

  • Regulating Us to Death

    By Selwyn Duke Perhaps I should be chagrinned to admit it, but I failed my first road test. I was about 18 years old, and I still remember the sinking feeling of sitting in the vehicle and coldly being informed that I missed a stop sign. Curious, I subsequently drove the route with my mother…

  • Prescribing Ritalin for Toddlers

    By Selwyn Duke While we commonly see bumpers bearing the message "Hugs are better than drugs," you’d never know we believe it from our legalized-drug culture. Recently I cited statistics indicating that 20 million Americans, 40 percent of college students, and 1 out of 9 schoolchildren are on psychoactive medication.

  • The Hard Truth about a Soft Science: Why Psychology Does More Harm Than Good

    By Selwyn Duke  In his book The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud said of religion and morality, “It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and admit the purely human origins of all the precepts and regulations of civilization.” In making this statement, Freud weighed in on one…

  • Enviro-lies

    By Selwyn Duke Upon being asked what wisdom was, the ancient sage Confucius once replied, "Wisdom is, when you know something, knowing that you know it, and when you do not know something, knowing that you do not know it." If this definition is correct, I would say most politicians are sorely lacking in the…

  • Exposing the Galileo Myth

    By Selwyn Duke I responded today to an American Thinker piece by fellow AT contributor James Lewis titled "The Epicycles of Global Warming."  While Lewis’ article was very well done, it included a recapitulation of the Galileo myth, and I was moved to address it.  Here is my response:

  • The Melding of Man and Robot?

    In this modern age, there are technologies coming to the fore with the potential to alter life on Earth irrevocably.   In particular, I’m talking about nanotechnology, genetic engineering and robotics. 

  • Scientist Says Obesity Needs to be Addressed Like Climate Change

    By Selwyn Duke The health police are at it again.  One Professor Philip James, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said obesity was such a big problem worldwide that, writes BBC News, ". . . action was needed now, even without clear evidence of the best options." Yup, sounds like the Al…

  • Why ‘superbugs,’ TB, leprosy and other pestilences are invading U.S

    World Net Daily has a piece about how diseases once eliminated in the U.S. are now making a frightening comeback.  And they point out the obvious, which is that the huge influx of Third World immigrants is largely to blame.