About: Selwyn Duke
Posts by Selwyn Duke
Liberal Favoritism Creates Anti-Muslim Hate
One of the quickest ways to provoke resentment in a sibling relationship is for the parents to continually show favoritism to one of...
The Hazards of Ensuring Safety
Back when my family vacationed in Miami Beach, it wasn’t uncommon for the hotels abutting the shoreline to have high diving boards. I...
Engineering Oblivion: Eugenics, the Remaking of Man and Unmaking of Morality
The year is 1941, and the Nazis are in the midst of their Lebensborn program. Men of pure Aryan stock — especially members...
Generation Zero
While I certainly look back with fondness on the “Greatest Generation,” I can’t help but think that the superlative applied to it may...
Change You Can Believe In: From Bushisms to Obamanisms
Shortly after Barack Obama was elected, one of his supporters, alluding to George W. Bush’s supposedly lacking intellect, said to me, “I’m just...
When a People Tyrannizes Itself
All around the realm was heard a fateful cry: ?'Twill make us sleep the nightmare if ye tax the other guy. ?We...
Drill, Baby, Drill . . . Still
The gulf oil gusher is a disaster of great proportions. We’ve all seen the pictures of petroleum-soaked birds and dead fish, and the...
The Big Government-Big Business Axis
If you accept the old stereotype, you believe that big government is a sworn enemy of big business. You believe that, were it...
Congressman Etheridge Assaults Student
A shocking video released today shows Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) assaulting a student who asked him a question on a public sidewalk. ...
Krauthammer Favors “Path to Citizenship” for Illegals
Perhaps Charles Krauthammer has lunched one too many times with Linda Chavez, but he’s starting to sound more like Harry Reid than the...
New York Law Would Enroll All Residents as Organ Donors
Living in New York has long cost an arm and a leg. Now dying there may cost a kidney and a heart. Under...
Is Genocide Coming to South Africa?
Back in the 1980s, South Africa figured prominently on the West’s radar screen. Protests against apartheid were everywhere; the movement even inspired a...
Latest Lunacy from Abroad: Children Firing Teachers
Perhaps the best case study in leftism run amuck is England, which in two generations has gone from Churchill and churches to hate-speech...
Catholic Church Sex Scandal & Celibacy
After getting in my car the other night, this writer turned on a radio show hosted by a man renowned as a rare...
Mixed-sex Dorm Rooms, Mixed up World
First it was coeducation.Then it was young men and women in different wings of the same dormitories. Next we had the sexes sharing...