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I wish you a very merry and blessed Christmas. Always remember the reason for the season and that holiness is beauty.  God bless, Selwyn Duke

By Selwyn Duke In the very tiresome battles over whether one religious element can be in the public realm without being accompanied by other “religious” elements that someone, somewhere, claims to value, a simple point is missed: We do have the right to freedom of religion. But this does not equate to the right to…

By Selwyn Duke The Sooner State could have done it sooner — but better late than never. Following a story yesterday about English authorities pushing back against “trans” radicalism in their schools comes another example of reasonableness rising against risible radicalism: Oklahoma is saying no to sexual devolutionary ideas and racialism in their schools — and yes…

By Selwyn Duke The mainstream media love talking about polls, especially those showing support for their favored candidates and agendas. We hear about who’s up, who’s down, what’s hip, what brings a frown. But there’s a blockbuster new poll they may want to memory-hole, for a simple reason: It vindicates the claim that the 2020…

By Selwyn Duke “If something can’t go on, it won’t,” the paraphrase of economist Herb Stein goes. And thus did mass hysteriae such as the Salem witch trials, medieval dancing plagues, and Tanganyika laughter epidemic inevitably end. So it will be with the MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) agenda. The only question is when.…

By Selwyn Duke “I’d describe it as catastrophic.” So said Food and Drug Administration commissioner Robert Califf in a recent series of tweets about a troubling but ignored problem: the major decline in life expectancy among young, working age people. In fact, the number of “unexpected or, ‘excess,’ deaths, which claimed 158,000 more Americans in…

By Selwyn Duke “Why is Harvard giving Claudine Gay ‘plagiarism privilege’?” asked the New York Post editorial board Saturday. It must be a rhetorical question. Professor Carol Swain, who was ripped off by Gay and complains “I feel like her whole research agenda, her whole career, was based on my work,” has some idea. “A…

By Selwyn Duke Is Santa Claus soon only going to be safe at the North Pole — that is, unless that icy region, too, is strengthened with diversity? One could draw this conclusion after an attack on a middle-aged man dressed as St. Nick, by Muslim youths who, obviously, didn’t care that Santa was making…

By Selwyn Duke Vladimir Lenin, author of the Russian Revolution, once told a colleague that “yes, we are contradicting what we said before” — as The New Criterion paraphrased it in 2019 — “and when it is useful to reverse positions again, we will.” This could come to mind when pondering a complaint from liberal law professor…

By Selwyn Duke We’ve heard stories about children “canceling” their conservative parents, cutting all ties with them over objections to their politics. But they should actually be thankful for their traditionalist elders because, a new study informs, the typical “rightist” parenting style can keep kids right in the head. In contrast, “leftist” parenting is more associated…