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By Selwyn Duke In 2020, journalist Matthew Yglesias insisted we use increased immigration to grow the U.S. population to one billion. Our current 343-million number is insufficient to compete with a future China and India, his theory goes. Yet before we MACA — “Make America China Already!” — we should first ask a question: “What’s So Bad About a Stable Population?” Continue reading Are You…

By Selwyn Duke It has been said that more suffering is caused by ignorance than intended iniquity. One of the best examples of this, too, may be in economics. And with socialism gaining currency in our society, economics warrants serious discussion. Continue reading AOC, the Gal With an Economics Degree, Gets an Economics Lesson

By Selwyn Duke A lawsuit last year called then-Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy’s Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) majority opinion “legal fiction.” This is for good reason, too. As Chief Justice John Roberts put it at the time, the Constitution “had nothing to do with it.” But then there’s what had a lot to do with it. That is, growing public support for faux (same-sex) marriage. In fact, U.S.…

By Selwyn Duke “‘Transgender’ is not a legitimate medical status, but an ideological one,” I wrote in 2019. “Yet this truth won’t stop our time’s Lysenkoists from performing our age’s version of lobotomies. What will is being sued into irrelevancy.” Now something approximating this is finally happening, too. The latest example comes out of Texas, where state attorney general Ken Paxton just…

By Selwyn Duke “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury,” goes the famous apocryphal warning. “From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits….” The result of this “is that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy.” This…

By Selwyn Duke “Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper,” humorist Mark Twain once quipped. Of course, newspapers’ circulation these past decades has declined like that of someone gaining 50 years and 60 pounds. Yet their influence and that of other left-wing media sources is magnified — by social media and Big Tech generally. In fact, the bias is so intense, warns…

The California pioneers monument stands prominently near the domed city hall building. By Selwyn Duke “When Will They Blow Up Mount Rushmore?” I asked that rhetorically in 2017, alluding to the continual left-wing efforts to clear cut our American cultural landscape. And it was not three years later, in 2020, that a leftist did propose doing essentially that. In fairness, though, Oglala Sioux…

By Selwyn Duke Some would call it “progress.” Others would say it’s poetic justice or being hoist with your own petard. Whatever you call it, it certainly is ironic. First, a liberal Canadian politician pushes mass Third World migration because, well, Diversity™. Then guess what just happened this past Saturday? That man, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, the favorite to win what essentially was a…

By Selwyn Duke Here’s a point to ponder: Despite being 31-33 percent Republican, New Hampshire has no GOP congressman. What would a Republican congressional district look like were the state forced to create one? Then, imagine Massachusetts had to forge a district for its gun owners, who comprise just 14.7 percent of the state’s population. Would it or the New Hampshire district look anything…

By Selwyn Duke For decades, there would be much talk among politicians about United States budget deficits (and the national debt). Yet this faded sometime after 2010, at the latest, after which our debt achieved elephant-in-the-room status. It’s perhaps just too scary or inconvenient — when you want or are promising free stuff — to discuss. Regardless, what just happened is discussion-worthy.…

By Selwyn Duke My time working with kids, decades ago, left me with some interesting stories. One of them involved a boy of about 10 — I’ll call him Joe (not his real name) — who’d been diagnosed with “ADHD.” His mother told me a mental-health professional gave them a book for him to read on children thus diagnosed. She ended up taking it away from Joe, however. Why? He began, she explained,…

By Selwyn Duke In the 19th century, European immigrants might write home a letter including something such as the following. “Dear Uncle Maarten, it’s unbelievable: Here in America, I can eat meat every day!” Such a lifestyle was unheard of in the Old World. And now there may be the 21st-century version of this incredulity. It goes something like this: “Dear Uncle Maarten, it’s unbelievable:…

By Selwyn Duke The Muslim Brotherhood once outlined a plan that “involved softening America through cultural influence, political infiltration, and demographic expansion,” as one ex-Muslim observer related it. And now critics have an Exhibit A in the cultural-influence department. To celebrate the Islamic holiday Eid, there’ll be an event originally billed as “Muslims Only” at a taxpayer-funded…

By Selwyn Duke If your three children all got sick the day after a new kid came over to play, you’d have a decent clue about who the vector of disease was. This comes to mind with the reintroduction in California of an ancient killer: tuberculosis (TB). The world’s deadliest infectious disease, TB caused an estimated 1.23 million deaths worldwide in 2024. In fact, approximately 10.7 million…

By Selwyn Duke It raised eyebrows when Michelle Obama said at a 2008 campaign rally, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.” (And all it took was her husband becoming a probable presidential nominee.) But she’s not alone in lacking pride. In fact, a 2025 Gallup poll found that only 36 percent of Democrats are very proud to be American. (This doesn’t likely…

Image created with Grok AI. By Selwyn Duke In 2018-2019, Democrats lifted a ban on head coverings in the House so that newly-sworn-in Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) could wear her hijab. Democrats have also generally defended the “right” to sport Muslim headwear in schools, workplaces, and in interactions with government. But Democrats in former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department…

By Selwyn Duke Since committing a “hate crime” brings more prison time, we could wonder: Does committing a “love crime” reduce one’s sentence? This may sound silly, a bit like countering feminism with “masculinism” or Islamophobia with “Islamophilia.” Yet it also may put in perspective how silly the accepted terms are. Whatever the case, I’m old enough to remember when “hate crime,” per se,…