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 expelled from nearby Providence. Many other Western-hero statues are staying in place, however (for now), but only because of a compromise reached that one commentator calls a “startling victory” for the cultural devolutionaries.

In a Saturday article, English historian David Abulafia points out that we’re now living in an Orwellian time, where the past is rewritten as “Big Brother’s enemies” are “eliminated from history,” to quote the novel 1984. This brings us to the aforementioned victory: the determination “that controversial monuments should be matched by counter-memorials that set out a balanced explanation of the person or event being commemorated,” as Abulafia puts it. The commentator relates that in Britain, this policy goes by the catchphrase “Retain and Explain.”

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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 “respect.”

“We’re going to be — very shortly — a minority-white European country,” Biden told ProPublica in an interview published last Sunday. “And sometimes my [Democrat] colleagues don’t speak enough to make it clear that that is not going to change how we operate.”

Does this mean the Left will continue pushing “white privilege” theory; the “white supremacy” narrative; affirmative action and quotas disadvantaging white men; and “equity,” a euphemism for government-sanctioned, politically correct discrimination? Biden didn’t specify.

He did, however, emphasize that the new white minority should be treated with “respect” (video below), which may be a tacit admission that his party currently treats them with anything but.

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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 how to covertly seduce children into the sexual devolutionary world. Sound like an exaggeration?

Well, one new ALA effort is, reportedly, the suggestion that schools introduce kids to pornographic books with an activity called “blind date with a banned book.”

The ALA’s new president, Emily Drabinski, was elected in 2022, took office officially this year — and is a true revolutionary. For example….

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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 they have what they apparently consider a good reason:

They want to give resources to illegal aliens.

Ah, citizenship — such a quaint idea.

The story is that to house illegals, allowed into the country by the Biden administration and pandered to by leftists everywhere else, the Big Apple has to pay hotels approximately $300 per room per night….

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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 case in point is a story out of the United Kingdom. 

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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, joked post-9/11 about wanting to get his pilot’s license. The problem, it turns out, is that comedian Hasan Minhaj’s tales are tall ones — very tall. But now that he has been busted, by two left-wing journalists no less, Minhaj is not repentant but repugnant.

In fact, he defends his lies, calling them “emotional truths.”

(Now, perhaps, we know what kind of “truths” Joe Biden referenced when he proclaimed, “We choose truth over facts.”)

The original exposé on Minhaj….

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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.

Rahim is a senior at Apex High School in Wake County, North Carolina. Claiming there’s been no sexual-devolutionary conditioning during his classes, he writes, “Take it from a cisgender, straight and quite frankly very boring high school senior: No, we’re not being ‘indoctrinated.’”

Hmm, methinks this is what kids his age call (or, at least, did not long ago) a “self-own.” No, a lad calling himself “cisgender” — and who lists personal pronouns, I’ll add — hasn’t been indoctrinated at all.

That aside and taking his claim at face value….

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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, reclaim territory in the culture war.

Most Americans don’t trouble much over the statue-removal movement, thinking the matter small potatoes. Yet just as how when “systems fall, so do statues,” as Russia Beyond noted in 2012, statues’ fall can mean your system is soon to follow.

Elizabeth Rogliani, a Venezuelan actress living in the United States, knows this firsthand. “Why do I even worry about some silly little statues coming down? … Why do I care?” she asked rhetorically in a 2020 video. (Note: As with the statues, her video has been taken down.)

“It’s because the last time I didn’t care about this, I was a teenager,” she explained. “I have already lived through this thing … in Venezuela.”

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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 Gen Zers are sorely lacking in a quality that, ironically, has been emphasized nominally their whole lives: tolerance. ‌

Perhaps the latest person to lament this is Alex Mahon, chief executive of U.K. broadcaster Channel 4. In fact, says the British TV boss, too many young people entering the business world today are wholly incapable of working alongside colleagues with differing opinions. Mahon blames this phenomenon on social-media influence and pandemic restrictions. But is that really all there is to it?

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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 of this attack on our cultural landscape. 

My appearance begins at 32:00.