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Category: Social Issues
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By Selwyn Duke It seems that judicial adventurism is as old as our republic itself. Lamenting such usurpation, Thomas Jefferson once said, "The original error [was in] establishing a judiciary independent of the nation, and which, from the citadel of the law, can turn its guns on those they were meant to defend, and control…
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By Selwyn Duke The May 9 edition of the New York Post carries a short article by an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student named Keith John Sampson. He tells a story of being charged with "racial harassment" simply because he was "caught" reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. I’m not kidding. Sampson tells his story:
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By Selwyn Duke Imagine this: You mistake an alcoholic beverage for a soft drink and give it to your child. He then imbibes a relatively small amount of it and is none the worse for it. You then get investigated by Child Protective Services (CPS) and lose custody of your children.
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By Selwyn Duke To paraphrase that great man of letters, G.K. Chesterton, “There will come a time when people consider smoking a cigar to be more offensive than abortion.” Given that the jolly philosopher left us for the ethereal typewriter in the sky in 1936, it’s amazing how prescient he was.
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By Selwyn Duke I received an email from a young man who is addressing a very interesting topic. Here is his email:
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By Selwyn Duke I truly cannot think of a more unfairly-maligned individual than Pope Pius XII, the pontiff during the darkest days of WWII. Even Senator Joe McCarthy, who has been relegated to Dante’s seventh circle of Hell by revisionist historians, has not been demonized like Pius. And the destruction of the Pope’s reputation is…
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By Selwyn Duke I’ve written about anti-smoking laws before and the zealots who often enforce them, but prohibiting lighting up at a pipe convention really takes the cake. And that’s exactly what has happened in St. Charles, Illinois, at the Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show. Writing about this at ChicagoTribune.com, Steve Schmadeke tells us:
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By Selwyn Duke Going to college has become a rite of passage. Like a high school diploma, it’s now often expected that a student will go on to earn — or should I say "get" — a bachelor’s degree. After all, this is how we increase our earning potential, right?
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By Selwyn Duke My last two pieces, the one on Obama and the one on psychology, have evoked quite a response. And the emails run the gamut; some are literate and uplifting, others are just complimentary (always welcome!), while others still are indicative of extreme dislocation from reality. Here are a few, and after each…
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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…
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