By Selwyn Duke
Most of us have heard about the scores (or more) of “genders” social engineers have conjured up. Thanks to the Trump administration, however, school officials will no longer have to identify as a particular one: “pandergender.”
This is because the administration’s Department of Education is terminating coercive, Obama/Biden-era agreements compelling schools to affirm troubled students’ delusions.
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By Selwyn Duke
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools,” warned 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer. Would he say today, though, that the ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is … the United States’ criminal-justice system? Some may thus wonder upon hearing stories such as the following.
In January 2025, North Carolina Judge Teresa Stokes released into society a deranged 34-year-old man with 14 prior arrests. His rap sheet included violent and unstable behavior; even robbery with a dangerous weapon was on the list. And what was required of him?
Merely a written promise to appear for his next court date (no cash bail or additional conditions). Records and reports indicate that this criminal was known to authorities as a repeat offender, too.
This man, Decarlos Brown Jr., would proceed to murder Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte train seven months later.
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By Selwyn Duke
It is interesting to note that both ancient Greece, the “cradle of Western civilization,” and the Roman Empire, which spread Western civilization, declined and “fell” due partially to internal divisions. Another point to ponder is something Salvian of Marseilles, a Christian priest, observed in the mid fifth century:
[T]he name of Roman citizen, once not only much valued but dearly bought, is now voluntarily repudiated and shunned, and is thought not merely valueless but almost abhorrent.
Does such loathing (though perhaps not the citizenship part — yet) sound vaguely familiar?
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By Selwyn Duke
You perhaps didn’t think you’d see the day when diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) would be applied to sexual assault. But here we are, courtesy of “Black-led and Black-owned startup” (its own description) AFRU. If a migrant rapes you says AFRU, well, boohoo. Those are just the broken eggs for the omelet. Or as the site puts it in its subhead:
Quasi-consensual encounters between refugees and white Western women may help with assimilation. Increasingly they result in a shared apartment and a new surname.
Yeah, and sometimes a new body covering, too.
Of course, a plain old white guy’s sexual misconduct is presumably still wrong. He’s just awash in “male privilege,” oozes toxic masculinity, and needs further emotional neutering. But when Ahmed from Afghanistan does it? It’s mere cultural misunderstanding.
As AFRU relates, “Karim … was just someone who slapped my butt while I was out shopping groceries,” says Julia, a 32-year-old nurse in Stuttgart. “He simply didn’t know how else to get my attention at the time.”
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By Selwyn Duke
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson flexes her “brilliance” in oral arguments. She also “had to be 10 times better than most” to succeed. So claims lame-duck Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), anyway. This is even though the man who nominated Jackson to the High Court, then-President Joe Biden, made clear he chose her based on sex and skin color.
None of this might warrant mention, do note, except for the fact that it relates to deeper issues. That is, the poisonous phenomenon that is diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and the matter of what constitutes true qualifications.
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By Selwyn Duke
After he was shot in 1981, “President Reagan said to me, ‘I hope you’re all Republicans,’ and I replied, ‘Today, we’re all Republicans,’” one Dr. Giordano related in 2010. “I’m not a Republican,” added the physician, who treated Reagan, “but I thought for this one day I could be one.”
Reagan was kidding, of course, maintaining his legendary sense of humor even under duress. And Giordano was exhibiting the honor and integrity that once epitomized more Americans. That is, you do your job, no matter who your client is, for a simple reason: It’s your duty. (The virtue of Love can be a strong motivator, too.)
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By Selwyn Duke
Back in 1989, homosexuality activists Hunter Madsen and Marshall Kirk made what’s now an interesting prediction. In the future, those who “still feel compelled” to oppose homosexuality will be “cow[ed] and silence[d] … as far as possible,” they wrote in their book After the Ball. The pair also said that these “intransigents … will eventually be effectively silenced by both law and polite society.”
Enter NBA team the Chicago Bulls. Whether it’s part of polite society or just principle-lite society (or both), something is for sure.
It’s trying to silence one of its players, Jaden Ivey, because he cited Christian teaching on homosexuality.
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By Selwyn Duke
Will our second-largest city follow our largest in electing a socialist mayor? This may well be the case if a new poll is to be believed. It’s not just that it shows socialist Nithya Raman in the lead in Los Angeles’ mayoral race. It’s also, even more shockingly, that almost 50 percent of the metropolis’ residents want a “Democratic Socialist” leading the city.
Of course, what percentage of that percentage even knows what a socialist is was not reported.
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By Selwyn Duke
Not long ago I met a very impressive and unusual 20-year-old man. Having already imbibed great literary works and philosophical material as most of his age-mates do social-media dross, he is what the average 50-year-old philosophy professor would be if he actually, well, understood philosophy (i.e., that it is “a search for Truth”). He said something very interesting, too, when our conversation turned to politics.
He warned that if the Democrats ever gained enough power, they would kill “us” (meaning, their political opponents).
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By Selwyn Duke
An analysis of the first 15 months of the Covid pandemic in Germany, population 84 million, found that zero healthy children died of the disease. In this vein, epidemiologist Dr. Knut Wittkowski stated in March-May 2020 that children would be largely unaffected by Covid.
The response was censorship (e.g., YouTube removed an interview Wittkowski gave from its platform).
Another response was that Joe Biden administration authorities insisted that even children be given the largely untested Covid “vaccines.” This recommendation was eventually expanded to include babies as young as six months old.
And now another study, a massive one evaluating a million-plus kids, points to what a grave mistake this was. That is, it found that myocarditis and pericarditis (sometimes-fatal inflammatory heart conditions) affect only Covid “vaccinated” kids.
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