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By Selwyn Duke On this Columbus Day, it’s worth noting that the war on the eponymous explorer and other famed Western historical figures hasn’t ceased. The fate of a Columbus statue in Pittsburgh is unknown, as a legal case surrounding it proceeds, while a different Columbus statue has just received a new home in Johnston, Rhode Island, after being…

By Selwyn Duke “An unrelenting stream of immigration, nonstop, nonstop … will make white people an absolute minority in the U.S.,” said then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2015. Biden has now echoed this, too, stating in a recent interview that ours will soon be “a minority-white-European country” but that, nonetheless, whites should be treated with…

By Selwyn Duke If you thought American libraries might be chastened after the pushback against “Drag Queen Story Hour,” think again. In fact, in a story that could be titled “The (Groomer) Empire Strikes Back,” the American Library Association (ALA) is doubling down with a new aggressively activist, self-described “Marxist lesbian” president and advice on…

By Selwyn Duke During the congressional budget battles of 1995, the Democrats claimed the Republicans wanted to starve seniors. The GOP’s Social Security proposals would force the elderly to eat dog food, they said. So perhaps it’s ironic that in New York City today, it’s the Democrats taking food from the elderly. But at least…

By Selwyn Duke If white people wear their hair in cornrows, they can be and have been accused of “cultural appropriation.” What should happen, then, if a Nigerian-born author tries to appropriate a whole nation and entire culture? What does happen is that if it’s a Western nation and culture, the person gets accolades and riches. A…

By Selwyn Duke Known for his “social justice commentary,” he trades in lamentations about “white privilege” and “systemic racism”; he tells stories about bigoted white conservatives who did things such as send an envelope of white powder to his home and slam his teenage self on the hood of a car because he, a Muslim,…

By Selwyn Duke “No, we’re not being ‘indoctrinated,’” says one Hadi Rahim. “Don’t fall for” the idea that “gender” ideology is in American schools. It’s all an illusion. He must know what he’s talking about, too; after all, The Charlotte Observer saw fit to publish the 17-year-old’s op-ed on Friday. Well, that’s the main-teen media for you.…

By Selwyn Duke The statues felled by cultural revolutionaries in recent years are like the canary in the coal mine: If the warning their demise provides goes unheeded, other, bigger targets will also fall. This is no doubt why commentator David Marcus proposes a solution: Restore those statues to their rightful places and, for a change,…

By Selwyn Duke “Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians,” Professor Thomas Sowell once noted, “who must be civilized before it is too late.” This all-important process, however, has clearly been effected less well with each of the last several succeeding generations, and one consequence is that many…

By Selwyn Duke If a person finds himself objecting to a statue of George Washington, the father of our nation, he probably should wonder if he really is American at all. But when the statues start coming down…watch out — it's like the canary in the coal mine. Christian Gomez and I discussed the implications…