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The War on Boys: Where Feminists and Men’s Rights Activists Go Wrong

By Selwyn Duke

One problem with one-issue activists, it seems, is that they often view matters from only one dimension. This has always been one of the characteristics of feminists. Men get blame for being history’s conquerors and killers, for instance, but no credit for being its innovators and healers. We will hear about how women “create life” while men only destroy it, but forgotten are the fruits of men’s labors. Were it not for male medical advances that virtually eliminated female death during childbirth, many feminists wouldn’t be around to crow about their fecundity.

JBS Piece: Right-wingers Are the Nice-wingers, While the Left is Bereft

By Selwyn Duke

I remember experiencing one of my first insights into the true nature of modern liberalism. I was 19 years old, sitting in an Indian restaurant with an erstwhile high school "buddy" who was talking about his aspirations. He concluded by waxing idealistic and saying "I want to do good things."

A Socialist by Any Other Name . . .

By Selwyn Duke

One of the consequences of being right in an age of lies is that it brands you as a radical.  Remember that being an extremist doesn't mean you're wrong, but simply that your views deviate greatly from those of the mainstream.  If you say that 2+2=4 in a land where everyone else insists it's 5, you'll be labeled a radical.  The same is true if you assert that a certain society of men is full of wolves when everyone else believes they're sheep.

Regulating Us to Death

By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps I should be chagrinned to admit it, but I failed my first road test. I was about 18 years old, and I still remember the sinking feeling of sitting in the vehicle and coldly being informed that I missed a stop sign. Curious, I subsequently drove the route with my mother and found the octagonal red menace, barely visible amidst a sea of leaves, with just a few splotches of color showing through. My first thought was, "Are they kidding? Am I supposed to be watching the road or scouring the sidewalk, performing something akin to a 'What’s wrong with this picture' exercise?"

Prescribing Ritalin for Toddlers

By Selwyn Duke

While we commonly see bumpers bearing the message "Hugs are better than drugs," you'd never know we believe it from our legalized-drug culture. Recently I cited statistics indicating that 20 million Americans, 40 percent of college students, and 1 out of 9 schoolchildren are on psychoactive medication.

New American Piece: Hitler and Christianity

By Selwyn Duke

   Long ago, during the darkest chapter of the 20th century, a movie was released entitled Hitler’s Children. While the film is virtually forgotten, I cannot forget a certain scene involving some words a Nazi official uttered to a dissident, a heroic Catholic bishop. Dripping with contempt, the officer said (I’m paraphrasing), “In a few years, the churches will be empty.” It was a thought he obviously relished. Ah, Hollywood and its fiction … or, is this a snapshot of history, a rare case in which Tinseltown’s art imitated life?

JBS Piece: The Real Discrimination Causing the Male/Female Wage Gap

By Selwyn Duke

We all know about the lifespan gap between the sexes that favors women. Now, what if I said it was due to discrimination, that it obviously means men’s health issues are ignored by a callous, misandristic society; thus, government must intervene to balance the scales.

The Crime of Being White

By Selwyn Duke

Just recently I wrote a piece about Keith John Sampson, a college student who was charged with “racial harassment” for reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. Not surprisingly, the article evoked a great response, including emails from those with their own stories to tell about persecution inspired by what I will call caucaphobia. A couple of these accounts are so compelling – compared to one even Sampson’s problems pale – that I’ve decided to publish them in this piece (both readers allowed me to use their names; their correspondence has been edited for punctuation, grammar and style). These are the stories the mainstream media won’t tell, straight from the front lines of the culture war. They give voice to a persecution whose name most dare not utter.

Warped Moral Compasses

By Selwyn Duke

To perpetuate anything worthy of the name "civilization," a people must be able to make correct judgments.  Oh, I know that j-word has become unfashionable, along with "punishment" and "sin" and a few others.  But don't be fooled; don't cede that illusory high road to the leftists, as most of their opponents do.   While they may proudly don the mantle of non-judgmentalism, remember that they render more judgments than most anyone.  They're just different judgments. 

California Supreme Court Overturns Laws Upholding Marriage

By Selwyn Duke

It seems that judicial adventurism is as old as our republic itself. Lamenting such usurpation, Thomas Jefferson once said, "The original error [was in] establishing a judiciary independent of the nation, and which, from the citadel of the law, can turn its guns on those they were meant to defend, and control and fashion their proceedings to its own will."