The U.S. occupation and reconstruction of Japan began nearly 80 years ago and is considered by many to be an unqualified success. But Japan's national character was hollowed out in the process; what remains is a shell of a country still obedient to its conquerors.
In "Tyranny Inc.," Sohrab Ahmari calls out the hypocrisy of today’s American economy, which enriches unaccountable oligarchs, exploits workers, and undermines democracy.
Artificial intelligence is forging a world less free, and filled by individuals less equipped for freedom—or simply less equipped, period.
In this discussion of 11 critics of contemporaneity, Neema Parvini is unsentimental about human nature, scornful of pabulum, and armed with mordant wit.
Readers tussle with Paul Gottfried over slavery and the War Between the States, praise for November's "End of the Dollar" issue, and more thoughts on the coming American resistance.
Every pro-NATO argument is really an argument for its abolition—in the eyes of America's patriotic realists.
NATO has undermined the security of its members and created enemies that, in turn, justify further NATO interference in an increasingly unstable “security environment.”
Zora Neale Hurston mocked the professional victims and race hustlers of her day and advocated for a positive, noncombative black identity. She was a woman of the right.
Catholic macho-man influencers tell men to "man up" and fix themselves and their marriages through self-mortification. By contrast, Catholic ladies are told to indulge themselves and "discover their dignity." There is something wrong here.
Short reviews of Vergil: Father of the West, by Theodor Haecker, and The Sociological Tradition, by Robert A. Nisbet.
There is a lot more to George Kennan than his policy of Soviet containment. This influential man, who never held a real position of power, was a bundle of contradictions.
Short reviews of George Kennan for Our Time by Lee Congdon, and Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein.
Joshua Doggrell reflects on the land he loves, his “Redneck Monticello.” He is proudly provincial.
America has one generation left before it careens over the debt cliff. We are crossing the point where no amount of taxation will be able to save us.
Chairman Ray Welder remembers fellow board member and longtime Chronicles supporter Mary Kohler.
Chronicles' Editor-in-chief Paul Gottfried remembers the life of esteemed poet and Chronicles contributor Fred Chappell.
Germans who protest their government's liberal immigration policy will see the ruling leftist bloc—media included—pull out all stops to silence, smear, and bully them.
Thanks to the UN, and your tax dollars, millions now travel north from Central and South America and reach our border looking none the worse for the wear. This is a well-planned and well-funded invasion.
Uncle Sam has to put his foot down and read the riot act to the Israeli Lobby. America should force through a peace deal, reminding Israel that it is for its own well-being and for the benefit of all concerned.