Category: Social Issues

  • By Selwyn Duke The topic of spiritual health is much more interesting than that of physical health (yet we’re obsessed with the latter), so I’d rather talk about fat egos than fat bodies.   But today I’m going to make an exception.   

  • By Selwyn Duke The big news in the broadcast industry is Rush Limbaugh’s record-breaking, $400 million radio deal.  It promises to keep him on the air through 2016, a prospect that should please liberals to no end.

  • By Selwyn Duke One problem with one-issue activists, it seems, is that they often view matters from only one dimension. This has always been one of the characteristics of feminists. Men get blame for being history’s conquerors and killers, for instance, but no credit for being its innovators and healers. We will hear about how…

  • 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."

  • By Selwyn Duke One of the consequences of being right in an age of lies is that it brands you as a radical.  Remember that being an extremist doesn’t mean you’re wrong, but simply that your views deviate greatly from those of the mainstream.  If you say that 2+2=4 in a land where everyone else…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • By Selwyn Duke There are some people in the media who are content to recycle thoughts on a regular basis — I guess you could call it groundhog-day commentary.  I’m not one of them, so when I find it necessary to address hate-speech laws — something I’ve treated thoroughly — part of me just wants…

  • By Selwyn Duke The St. Petersburg Times is running an article by one Melanie Hubbard, an erstwhile college professor who decided to take a foray into teaching high school.  She speaks of classroom horror stories; of undisciplined, uncivilized "students" who have no respect for anyone or anything; of an environment in which the inmates run…

  • 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.