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By Selwyn Duke “I think there is a lot of voter fraud,” said one Alan Schulkin, caught on hidden video in 2016. Schulkin should know, too: A Democrat, he was at the time New York City’s commissioner of the Board of Elections. Unfortunately, little has changed for the better since 2016. A case in point is…

By Selwyn Duke What has so often struck me, and irked me, about the embrace of “diversity” dogma is how profoundly unintellectual it is. A wiseguy might say it’s really a simple IQ test, though a wise guy understands it’s a soul and sagacity test. To wit: To the extent that a person accepts as…

By Selwyn Duke Another week, another case of a woke figure imposing PC lunacy, another rage storm. Another fizzle, another memory-holing of the story — and another absence of consequences. And the woke monster lives to fight another day. This time the issue is a DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) “hit list” circulated at the…

By Selwyn Duke Maybe you’ll be able to call the physician who treats you in the future the DoubleplusGood Doctor. Oh, he perhaps won’t know much about human anatomical structure, but everything about structural racism. And if you’re sick and he renders the diagnosis “white and privileged,” you just may be able to know he’s…

By Selwyn Duke The history of presidential campaigns is replete with dirty tricks, from 1856 claims that James Buchanan’s palsy-induced head tilt was the result of his trying to hang himself to the 2004 Killian documents fraud and beyond. But the advent of artificial intelligence and “deepfake” video and audio can take dirty tricks to a…

By Selwyn Duke “It’s more complicated when it’s about your own children,” said a NYC liberal in 2015 about a diversity plan affecting his kids’ school. Now a Democratic legislator in the Big Apple perhaps could echo that sentiment after her daughter was kicked out of school — to make room for Joe Biden’s migrants. In fact,…

By Selwyn Duke One reason the USSR had so much trouble subduing tiny Finland during the Winter War (1939-’40), and took staggering casualties, was that the Soviets had elevated officers based not on ability but on ideological priorities. The lesson is that anytime merit is subordinated to anything, the casualties are quality and competence. Fast-forward…

By Selwyn Duke It’s now well known that disgraced ex-Harvard president Claudine Gay scammed her way into higher education’s upper echelons, engaging in plagiarism and benefiting from prejudice. But far from an anomaly, says one observer, Gay merely reflects an academia so morally and intellectually bankrupt that it is itself a scam. Making his case…

By Selwyn Duke More shocking than what makes news, sometimes, is what doesn’t make news. So it is with the striking admission from Hungary’s president, made during a New Year’s address, that in “many families, there is almost constant sickness, as if our immune systems have been weakened.” When hearing such an eye-popping claim from…

By Selwyn Duke Soviet-born comedian Yakov Smirnoff used to tell a joke about choice in the USSR. “In Soviet Union, there are two television stations,” he said (I’m paraphrasing). “Channel One is government propaganda.” Channel Two is a man wagging his finger and sternly saying, “Turn back to Channel One!” With respect to elections, Western…