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Most “Mentally Ill” People Are Leftists, Says Writer; “Transgenderism” Is One Example

By Selwyn Duke

Most “mentally ill” people are on the political left, Harvard professor Arthur Brooks explained last year. In 2016, the American Journal of Political Science reported that liberal political beliefs are linked to psychoticism. A decade earlier, radio legend Dr. Michael Savage released his eyebrow-raising book Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder. But could it really be that there’s an association between ideological orientation and psychological disturbance?

Or does the impression that liberals are more “mentally ill” exist only because, well, they are?

Population Collapse: Is (Western) Human Extinction Near?

By Selwyn Duke

Dating back to the Middle Ages, the town of Semestene in Sardinia, Italy, has quite a history — one that could come to an end within a decade. With a population that has dwindled rapidly in recent years, 54 of its 126 residents are aged 65 or over. The town has just four children under 10 years old remaining. And its last birth, a 2023 report held, was eight years earlier.

Welcome to Ghost Town Italy.

Sound like exaggeration? Well, consider that the U.S. has approximately 3,800 ghost towns, with New Mexico having about 400 alone. Italy is about the size of that state.

And it has at least 6,000 ghost towns.

“At least,” that is, because that estimate was made in 2015 — and informed that another 15,000 localities were “on the brink.”

One could in fact wonder if this is the emptiest a European nation’s towns have been since the medieval black plague wiped out one-quarter to one-half of the continent’s population. The problem now is another plague, too.

The plague of low fertility.

Why worry about this? I mean, with pasta and pizza and the like having spread throughout the world, we needn’t worry about losing our favorite buonissima(!) Italian fare. What’s more, there are in excess of eight billion people on the planet. So shouldn’t we cheer this bambini bust? Perhaps not.

Long Live Tradition — The Democracy of the Dead

By Selwyn Duke

We hear much talk today about an “attack on democracy,” and, actually, there has long been one. That is, an attack on that “democracy extended through time,” that “democracy of the dead,” to quote G.K. Chesterton, that we call tradition. Tradition, it could be said, is the glue that binds society together. Oh, this is where the older among us might hear in our minds “Tradition!” bellowed in that famous song from the play Fiddler on the Roof. Unfortunately, we’ve done more than just fiddle with tradition in our civilization; we’ve thrown it off the roof. This may seem of little consequence to many, since they may be much like the play’s Tevye character, who confessed that he didn’t know why his people’s traditions existed.

Anti-Christianity? “Black” Church Attendance Actually INCREASES Support for Kamala

By Selwyn Duke

Church-attendance habits have long been one of the best predictors of voting patterns. That is, regular attendees support Republicans by a significant margin, while those never or seldom attending break solidly Democrat. But a new study has revealed a striking exception to this rule: black American churchgoers.

In fact, just the opposite as with whites, black church attendees are more likely to support Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris than are black Americans who never attend.

Charity Disparity: The Virtue That Can Only Be Practiced Privately

By Selwyn Duke

“We make a living by what we get,” said Winston Churchill, “but we make a life by what we give.”

Well more than 2,000 years before, ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu also sang charity’s praises.

“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures,” he averred. “The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.” There’s also the saying, “Charity is the lifeblood of a compassionate society.” This raises a question, too:

If we were to “outsource” all our good works to government — and even assuming they then remained “good” — would society’s compassion not die like a blood-starved limb?

The Necessity of Intolerance

By Selwyn Duke

If “tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions,” as G.K. Chesterton put it, a question suggests itself:

Is intolerance the virtue of the principled man?

Literally speaking, neither tolerance nor intolerance is a “virtue”; that is, one of those defined “objectively good moral habits.” Exhibiting each, however, in its proper context, can be virtuous. Even more significantly, wisely applied intolerance is certainly this: necessary for the preservation of virtue in civilization. This task is of the utmost importance, too, as the Founders well understood, Benjamin Franklin among them. “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,” he observed. “As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” Thus do we need “A Plea for Intolerance” — and, thankfully, we have one, in the form of a book chapter by that very title penned by legendary Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in 1931.

Motherhood: A Higher Calling

By Selwyn Duke

What is the most important job in the world? Is it being the president of the United States? Is it being a scientist working on cold fusion, now considered the “holy grail” of energy innovation? Is it toiling away as a researcher seeking a cure for cancer? Is it being a military general, protecting the homefront from external enemies? While all these jobs matter, a lot, they all pale in comparison to another job: That of the person who gives birth to and helps raise the presidents, scientists, researchers, and generals: mother.

This is because motherhood isn’t just a job, or even just an adventure. It’s a calling.

Teacher Who Wouldn’t be Part of “Trans” Child Abuse of Boy Jailed for THIRD Time

By Selwyn Duke

It’s said that Saint Patrick drove all the snakes from Ireland. It appears, however, that he might’ve missed a bunch. That is, if a recent story out of the Emerald Isle is any guide. To wit:

In a testimonial to our upside-down world, an Irish Christian teacher has been imprisoned for the third time. His trespass?

The educator, Enoch Burke, wouldn’t socially facilitate a student’s “gender transition,” as it’s euphemistically called, and then refused to abide by an order from a judge who sided with his school.

Raising Narcissists? New Parenting Advice: DON’T Tell Kids to Apologize

By Selwyn Duke

With narcissists being known for their stubborn refusal to apologize, some parenting advice gaining traction today could make a person wonder:

Will narcissism be the wave of the future?