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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By Selwyn Duke
“Rain will always fall downwards,” the saying goes. “Don’t try to change the impossible.” And government will always run up debt to buy votes and print “counterfeit” currency to cover the deficits.
While this is taken for granted, a revolution led by Argentine president Javier Milei aims to break the cycle. If it succeeds, deficit spending (and currency inflation) may become a thing of the past, too.
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By Selwyn Duke
“It’s easy being idealistic when you don’t have to live with your ideals,” someone close to me once said. The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) is learning this the hard way, too.
That is, the league recently defended the practice of having men who masquerade as female in women’s/girls’ sports. The reaction?
Many observers, including me, suggested that high-level male basketballers should try to make the WNBA practice what it preaches. Then it happened:
Two ex-NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, declared last Friday for the WNBA draft.
Both “women” (hey, let’s get into the spirit here) are young enough to be assets to the league. Freedom is 34, White 35. Moreover, the former is 6’10” and 250 lbs, and White is 6’8” and 260. So it’s not just that they could routinely out-rebound the competition and easily dunk the ball.
They also could perhaps dunk their average WNBA opponent while she’s holding the ball.
Very impressive ladies they are.
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By Selwyn Duke
Jason Arday was fêted and celebrated when he joined Cambridge University’s faculty in 2023. At 37, he was the prestigious institution’s youngest black professor, and no one wanted to look at him critically. The skids were so well greased that Cambridge turned a blind eye even when evidence piled up that Arday was George Santos, Walter Mitty, and Baron Munchausen all wrapped up into one. But then the allegations finally reached critical mass. The professor resigned Wednesday night, and Cambridge’s blind eye turned into a black one. Now the university’s faculty are calling for an “inquiry” into his appointment. But will anything really change without also firing his enablers?
The main problem, after all, isn’t individual corruption. It’s institutional corruption.
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By Selwyn Duke
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for Senate from Michigan last Tuesday.
Or, did he?
That is, legitimately.
The question is apt because a new investigation has proven something striking: Illegal aliens did in fact vote in that race.
Now a question arises:
Was the vote fraud great enough to have changed the result?
El-Sayed “defeated” Representative Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) by a mere one percent (48.5 percent to 47.5 percent). This amounts to approximately 15,000 to 25,000 votes in a state with 10.13 million residents. In other words, critics may say, the victory was “within the margin of vote fraud.”
This raises another question: If fraud was rampant, should the Michigan primary election be thrown out? Judges have done this before, mind you.
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By Selwyn Duke
The obscure comedy Ladybugs features a businessman-turned-coach who, desperate to help his struggling girls’ soccer team, dresses a talented boy as a female and puts him on the roster. At the film’s release, in 1992, this was considered the stuff of fiction — utterly ridiculous.
Today it’s considered, well, leftist dogma that it should be allowed.
Enter ex-professional soccer player and current devoted leftist Megan Rapinoe. She’s again agitating in favor of men in women’s sports and against common sense, this time targeting Sophie Cunningham. Cunningham is the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) player who recently made news by opposing the men-in-women’s-sports (i.e., “trans”) phenomenon.
Now, there’s an irony here. Without sexually segregating sports, Rapinoe wouldn’t have had a career and no one would’ve heard of her. This is not opinion. It isn’t unusual for professional women’s soccer teams to lose to 14-year-old boys. In fact, Rapinoe’s own team, the U.S. National Women’s Team (reigning world champs at the time), lost to the FC Dallas under-15 boys squad 5-2 in 2017. One of Rapinoe’s teammates, Carli Lloyd, made no bones about this, either. “They should beat us,” she said of the lads in 2023. “Bigger, stronger, faster!”
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