Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture

Cultural Revolutions

• Another Glenn Beck Brainstorm--Tom Piatak
  There is no denying Glenn Beck’s great popularity with many Americans who see themselves as conservatives. Joe Carter of First Things recently offered a reminder of why this popularity is unfortunate. In an appearance on Bill O’Reilly&# . . .


• A Plague on Both Their Houses--Thomas Fleming
  What can you do to make the worst of a bad situation?  The Democrats know how: they  have decided (temporarily) to shaft their welfare-consuming constituents–by cutting out Food Stamps–in order to help teachers and other government R . . .


• The Very Definition of Arrogance--Tom Piatak
  A California federal judge just provided the very definition of arrogance, in ruling that Proposition 8, the California law codifying marriage as between a man and a woman, lacked even a “rational basis” and was therefore unconstitutional . . .


• Treason in a Good Cause--Thomas Fleming
  Am I the only one who is a bit put off by  all this conservative support for the Pfc who allegedly leaked classified material to Wikileak?  Have anti-war conservatives gone so far down the road that they no longer value honesty and duty or condemn . . .