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By Selwyn Duke First it was “global warming.” Then it was “climate change.” Next was “global climate disruption,” though this never caught on much. Now, needing to ratchet up the political heat, there’s a new doomsday phrase in town: “global boiling.” As The Guardian put it this summer, quoting the UN’s secretary-general, António Guterres, “The era of global…

By Selwyn Duke Caster Semenya, the “woman” runner who made waves years ago dusting female competition while appearing very male, is back in the news. The athlete has just written a new book, The Race to Be Myself; the problem is that most media reporting on Semenya either don’t know, or won’t say, what the…

By Selwyn Duke Immigrationist authorities shipped the migrants in during the dead of night. My, observers may wonder, they couldn’t be trying to hide something, could they? The place is a small Irish town named Buncrana, which had already received migrants, such as Syrians in 2019, without notice. In Buncrana, which is in County Donegal, almost 30…

By Selwyn Duke The question is: What’s the “more”? Black author and intellectual Booker T. Washington once famously said that there “is another class of coloured people,” whose members “do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” If anyone currently fits this bill, it’s one…

By Selwyn Duke We're fracturing as a civilization. And a major part of our problem is dishonesty; that is, people bending the Truth for others and themselves (the latter being rationalization). A society based on lies is a society in its last days. Truth matters.

By Selwyn Duke No, it’s not a more devastating nuclear weapon. It’s not “Skynet”-like artificial intelligence. It’s not the development of nanobots or a new, gain-of-function-altered virus, either. In a way, though, it’s far scarier: Some scientists and scholars claim the existence of free will is a myth. Were this true, the implications for society…

By Selwyn Duke While there has been, understandably, much talk since Covid about anti-Asian hate crime, there has been virtually none about the hate crime that dare not speak its name. But this doesn’t mean bias crimes against whites don’t happen. In fact, they’ve increased precipitously since neo-Marxist group Black Lives Matter’s birth. Read the…

By Selwyn Duke Shortly after 9/11, late comedienne Joan Rivers was guest-hosting a radio show and, being wholly serious and commenting on how the terrorist act had shaken society, said (I’m paraphrasing) “All this political correctness is going to have to go out the window.” Of course, what actually happened was that the tragedy-specific emotions…

By Selwyn Duke The Scientific Method, originated 400 years ago, is a major reason we have our modern world, with its high technology, long lifespans, robust populations, and luxuries. Given this, you’d think its place in education would be secure. You’d be wrong. In fact, it had been completely removed from the North Carolina K-12 Science Standards,…

By Selwyn Duke Perhaps the most politically incorrect thing you could do in this cancel-culture age, something taking you so far outside the Overton Window that you couldn’t even peek through it, is praise Adolf Hitler. Why, when a couple of schemers in the 1967 black comedy The Producers sought to create a stage musical designed to…