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By Selwyn Duke Early last year, Stanford professor John Ioannidis stated that if we didn’t know a new virus called COVID existed, we might just “have casually noted that flu this season seems to be a bit worse than average.” Now Ioannidis has done research that perhaps vindicates that statement, finding that the coronavirus’ infection fatality rate…

By Selwyn Duke Identifying the superlative in an arena can be difficult. But one editor-in-chief believes he has done something akin to locating the most troublesome mosquito in the Okefenokee Swamp: identifying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “dumbest tweet ever.” Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke CNN just can’t stop proving that it’s the George Costanza of journalism. The network, which had to pay a huge defamation settlement to former Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann and has a history of deceitful reporting, is at it again — and this time a Democrat has served the station a legal notice. At…

By Selwyn Duke I was on the second hour of the show. My appearance begins at 52:20. Note: To fast-forward to my segment, you must right-click on the in-line MP3 player below and then click "Open link in new tab." Talkback-09-03-2021

By Selwyn Duke First she canceled her mother’s memorial Mass at the church. Now she aims to cancel the church’s priest. The issue? Father Michael Panicali of New York City’s St. Mark’s parish expressed in a sermon that he would not take a COVID-19 gene-therapy agent (GTA, generally referred to as a “vaccine”) because of…

By Selwyn Duke “War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength” 1984 informed us — and the botched Afghanistan withdrawal is an “extraordinary success.” That’s the world according to Joe Biden, who thus characterized the military exit in his Tuesday night speech. He also “blamed the victims,” as commentator Monica Showalter put it, claiming that his people had…

By Selwyn Duke I appeared on Beyond the Cover to discuss my New American cover story "When Children Cancel Parents." I have the link to the essay below the video. Read the essay here. 

By Selwyn Duke “Oceania was at war with Eastasia,” wrote George Orwell in 1984. “Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” America is at war with COVID. America has always been at war with COVID. It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the latter propositions well epitomize what one writer calls our “massive…

By Selwyn Duke An article was recently penned titled “A Baby Boomer Explains What’s Wrong with Millennials.” This could, possibly, be followed by hearing a Silent Generation member explain what’s wrong with Boomers, although, if such people really are silent, I suppose we won’t hear anything. But perhaps what’s truly necessary is to transcend generation-constrained…

By Selwyn Duke “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property.” So important are property rights that the preceding Adam Smith formulation was made part of The Declaration of Colonial Rights, crafted by the First Continental Congress in 1774. Don’t try telling this to the Supreme Court, however, and especially to the far-left third of it that…