As the erasure of Western culture continues apace, two stories from the past week stand out. One involves a black Christian pastor in Dearborn, Michigan, who warned that “we have lost this city” to Sharia law. The second concerns a Nigerian-born “racism czar” in Ireland who just told the Irish to stop emphasizing their “Irish” language (She meant Gaelic.)
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By Selwyn Duke
In recent decades, religious organizations in America have become synonymous with pro-(im)migration positions. Quite notably, Pope Leo XIV has criticized the Trump administration’s enforcement of our immigration law. But one Catholic bishop says, essentially, not so fast.
Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, made his comments in a wide-ranging interview with commentator Bill O’Reilly. Barron, who earlier this year inveighed against socialism, struck a diplomatic note. While mentioning the humaneness imperative, he also emphasized government’s “right to maintain its borders [and] to enforce its immigration laws.” The prelate further warned “that an unregulated border is a morally very dangerous proposition.”
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By Selwyn Duke
We all know that what’s presented in bold lettering may sound great — but watch out for that fine print. This is good advice not just when buying products and services, but also when buying what political candidates are selling.
Just consider the burgeoning Bolsheviks at the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). They’ve been winning primaries against establishment Democrats coast to coast. And does it matter that their platform is one Karl Marx would endorse? It should. Yet when the DSA candidates begin running in the general election, they play magician. This means they don’t openly endorse their radical platform, but they don’t disavow it.
Rather, they use misdirection.
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By Selwyn Duke
“I was selfish. I was looking out for myself. I was trying to do, first of all, what was good for me and making me happy, and only secondly, what was fair for the world.”
Before there was a “trans” agenda — before there even was a debate over men in women’s sports — there was “Renée” Richards. Oh, Richards is hardly a household name today. But he made big news in the ’70s as the first man, claiming “transsexual” status, to play women’s sports. Later, though, Richards would change his position.
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By Selwyn Duke
“PhD” stands for “piled high and deep,” an old joke goes. This could come to mind with the recent and tragic Jason Arday scandal. Because the problem of Arday — a fabulist who had a fraudulent doctorate — isn’t limited to Arday. In fact, says an expert on the matter, the entire PhD evaluation process is flawed and corrupt. He even quotes an academic at a prestigious university who says that he never fails a PhD thesis — no matter how bad it is. In other words, Arday’s tragic death (he committed suicide) relates to a larger issue: the death of academic excellence.
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By Selwyn Duke
For years now I’ve been warning, to imprecisely echo Twain, that reports of wokeness’s death are greatly exaggerated. The force is in fact alive and well and still metastasizing. A story out of Portland, Oregon, illustrates this perfectly, too. It involves a mother who, after complaining about “trans” propaganda targeting her son, got results.
The results were that the police came to her door and she was banned from her child’s school.
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By Selwyn Duke
A Rasmussen poll last September discovered something Americans once found unthinkable: Fifty-three percent of likely voters aged 18 to 39 want a “democratic socialist” elected president in 2028. And that’s not all. Seventy-six percent of these under-40s believe that major industries “like health care, energy, and big tech should be nationalized to give more control and equity to the people,” Rasmussen wrote. It’s staggering, but a question now arises: Do these voters support socialism — or what they think socialism is? Moreover, does nationalization actually give “the people” control?
Some young voters who aren’t too keen on socialism may be those who ran into one Mark Grannis in 2020. It was that year that Grannis, a history teacher at The Heights School, a Catholic boys’ institution in Potomac, Maryland, instituted something new. For one unit annually for a few years, he decided to implement a socialist-style grading system. What then transpired was interesting, as he related at The Heights Forum in 2025:
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By Selwyn Duke
The Muslim rape-gang scandal in the U.K. made headlines some years ago. Thousands of indigenous British girls were sexually abused and tortured by grown men while woke authorities turned a blind eye. Now we have the junior-league version of this, albeit on a smaller scale.
In this case, a 15-year-old Iraqi-descent boy in Austria reportedly turned a 14-year-old non-Muslim girl into, essentially, a sex slave. Oh, the lad was alluring in the beginning, wooing the lass with his exotic persona and sweet words. But those words eventually changed to remarks such as “By Allah, I will kill you,” as he later used threats and blackmail to control her. The boy has now been arrested. But the immigration regime and mentality that set the stage for the problem haven’t been arrested, let alone reversed.
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By Selwyn Duke
Did diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) kill Jason Arday? Strictly speaking, Arday, 41, the academic who resigned August 5 from Cambridge University over plagiarism charges, died by apparent suicide. He was found deceased Friday at his property in Battersea, south London. But it’s hard escaping the conclusion that had he not been DEI-enabled by Cambridge, he’d be alive today.
I’d reported on Arday twice recently, and I was shocked upon hearing late last night of his passing. Condolences should be extended to his loved ones; his is a sad and tragic story. It’s important, however, to learn the right lessons from it. And as of now, it’s apparent that some would bury the Truth with Arday.
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By Selwyn Duke
Socialist candidate for the Wisconsin governorship, Francesca Hong, was leading by double digits in the run-up to Tuesday’s primary election.
She lost by 0.45 percent.
Oh, and she was defeated by a guy, David Crowley, who’d dropped out of the race during mid July. He said he had no path to the nomination, but re-entered the fray when another establishment candidate herself withdrew.
One more thing: During the vote count, five USB sticks were found — after midnight — to not have any ballot data on them. This was, too, when Crowley had a razor-thin lead and appeared vulnerable, and the data had to be recovered. This was explained as “human error.”
Others call it a ballot dump.
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