Chronicles readers discuss and critique recent articles on the U.S. dollar, immigration, and "therapism."
Issue
Month: December 2023
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What We Are Reading: December 2023
Short reviews of Broken Record, by Roy Campbell, and The World Crisis, by Winston S. Churchill.
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Remembering Paul Elmer More
Paul Elmer More was one of several notable independent-minded scholars who criticized America from a broadly traditionalist perspective during the first half of the 20th century.
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Scalia Gets the Biography He Deserves
James Rosen’s biography shows Justice Scalia’s greatness in bucking the prevailing liberalism of the Supreme Court.
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When Prayer Left Public Life
Sixty years ago the Supreme Court struck down school prayer. This hastened the process of overturning the Western tradition in which Christianity played an integral role in the life of nations.
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Countering the Racial Revolutionaries
Heather Mac Donald documents the absurdities imposed on America by those who put racial equity above all else.
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A Divide in the Oregon Trail
The socio-political divide in Oregon is so dramatic that the red rural areas are continually trying to break-off from the rest of the state.
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Two Bad Choices: Assimilate or Die
In resurrecting the melting pot as the antidote to multiculturalism, Heycke neglects a better option: the return to American tradition.
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Books in Brief: December 2023
Short reviews of Character in the American Experience, by Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister, and From Here to Eternity, by Randall B. Smith.
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Conservatism After Defeat
Edmund Burke’s statement of government as a compromise and a sharing of power is no longer relevant today. The world has been remade since Burke's warnings, unfortunately.
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The Death of Satire
The absurdity of the modern left, and rise of victim culture, make quality satire impossible. Absurdity is now taken seriously and cannot be mocked.
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Is 18th Century Liberalism to Blame for All Our Problems?
Many conservatives insist that some distant, long-past event supposedly causes all our current woke silliness. I call this the "inverted Whig interpretation of history."
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Burke on our Crisis of Character
Abandoning our tradition-based constitutional republic, whether for a mythical medieval shire, an idyll of Lockean abstractions, or even a Church militant, is neither necessary nor prudent.
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The Age of Reason and the Age of Fear
There are uncanny similarities between the 18th and the 21st centuries. The whole concept of liberty, equality and fraternity in the last two decades of the 18th century was as much based on a lie as it is in the first two decades of the 21st.
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A Very Special Ally
America’s political class is far more zealous about defending Israel than it is about defending America.
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The Victimhood Manifesto
Instead of treating mentally ill Audrey Elizabeth Hale, society told her she was a victim and, thereby, fed her delusions. There were dire consequences.
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Living in Interesting Times
The public discourse in both hemispheres seems to be legitimizing the coming of World War III. These are interesting—if not terrifying—times.
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Sympathy for Palestinian Misery
The October 7 attacks by Hamas were not justified, but neither was the Israeli response. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has changed little since I first witnessed it 40 years ago.