By Selwyn Duke

If anything epitomizes our time, it just might be the image of a person shaking his fist at the heavens and screaming about the unfairness of it all. “How dare reality be reality!” is the idea. One manifestation of this is the spirit of entitlement of the less-competent insisting on being treated as more so.

Enter one Divya Deshmukh. Deshmukh is a great, and gorgeous, female chess player. But that’s not enough. Apparently feeling she’s been rooked by reality, she wants people to ignore her appearance and her lack of ability relative to the men.

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By Selwyn Duke

Imagine this scenario: Someone sues you for defamation even though he may not think he can win. But that doesn’t matter. After all, someone else, with deep pockets, is covering his legal bills, and his goal may not involve winning.

Rather, he wants to break you.

He wants to keep you tied up in court so long, expending so many resources, that you’re bankrupted — or at least hobbled. What’s more, the action serves as a warning to others: Criticize me, and you could be next. It’s a type of “lawfare.”

It’s also exactly, it has been suggested, what climate alarmist Michael Mann is doing to two critics.

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By Selwyn Duke

“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free,” observed Anglo-Irish philosopher Edmund Burke. “Their passions forge their fetters.” In light of this, what are the implications of the reality that, according to a new poll, Gen Z is more likely to “identify” as having sexual devolutionary status (being “LGBTQ+”) than as being Republican or “white Christians”?

Is it any coincidence that Gen Z (born after 1996) is the most “progressive” and “pro-government” generation in American history?

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By Selwyn Duke

If a group that murdered 100 million people in less than a century can’t be described as villainous, what can?

This question could be asked now that entertainment website ScreenRant has published, and MSN.com has publicized, an article lamenting how “wrong” it was for comic books to have portrayed communists as villains during the 1950s. In fact, ScreenRant writer Shaun Corley even saw fit to republish a 46-year-old mea culpa by a famed Marvel Comics writer who said he “regretted” being part of the “Red Scare.”

This growing tolerance of — and, in fact, affinity for — communism is nothing new. More than 15 years ago already I wrote about how Marxism was again winning converts in Japan, Germany, the United States, and elsewhere. So imagine that: Monsters can be resurrected when the entirety of a popular culture — media, academia, and entertainment — are continually breathing life into them.

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By Selwyn Duke

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By Selwyn Duke

“We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe — without swords, without guns, without conquest — will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades,” said late Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi in 2006. While Gadhafi’s numbers might’ve been a bit off, his prediction, says a former European intelligence head, was spot on.

Hans-Georg Maaßen, Germany’s premier domestic intelligence chief from 2012 to 2018, made his comments in an interview with FPÖ TV, which PJ Media reported on this past Thursday. Warning that “Europe will succumb to Islam,” Maaßen said that the pseudo-elites could stop this process if they wanted to — but they don’t want to.

In fact, they want a land that’s a “hodgepodge of different folks,” as Barack Obama once put it, because the people will then be less able to resist their agenda.

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By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps he could have known the word would be seized upon. After all, with the term’s opposite, “diversity,” being treated by so many today as a theological principle bestowed from on high, it’s not surprising that using the concept of “conformity” to defend an action would invite scorn. But perhaps this raises the question:

Which term has now has taken on the flavor of a false religion and heresy?

The case at issue involves Texas official Greg Poole, the Barbers Hill Independent School District (BHISD) superintendent, and a black teen who the district says is violating its hairstyle policy.

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By Selwyn Duke

“The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes,” G.K. Chesterton once wrote. “The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” In this sense, a school board in Pennsylvania has ceased being conservative — and delivered a blow against progressivism — by reinstating its district’s Indian mascot a mere month after five new members were elected to the board by campaigning on that very issue.

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By Selwyn Duke

When legendary wrestler Andre the Giant played in movies, he never complained about being limited to portraying, well, giants (he got to play Sasquatch, too). When you’re 7’2” and 500 pounds, after all, you’re not going to be cast as the jockey in Seabiscuit. Today, though, in a time in which identity is fancied reality, it’s increasingly common to hear that the obviously disabled shouldn’t be limited in the roles they play.

This perspective was heard just Sunday, in fact, from British actor Adam Pearson, who stars in a new movie and Sundance Film Festival hit titled A Different Man. Pearson, who’s 39 and suffers from a rare, sometimes severely disfiguring genetic condition called neurofibromatosis, made his comments while speaking to Variety.

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