Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture

Cultural Revolutions

• Perpetual Education for Perpetual Indoctrination--Tom Piatak
  The Obama administration already wants every child to go to preschool and everyone to go to college.  Yesterday I noticed a cover article in Time magazine taking aim at summer vacation.  It seems our leaders want all young Americans in school, all . . .


• The Inequity of Diversity--Tom Piatak
  A new study of admissions at elite colleges by Princeton sociologists Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Radford is attracting a lot of attention at Steve Sailer’s website and elsewhere on the internet.  Deservedly so, since the study clearly sh . . .


• Disappearing Summer Jobs--Tom Piatak
  The redoubtable John Derbyshire had a piece at NRO this morning on how mass immigration is causing summer jobs for teenagers to disappear, and why our feckless elites think this is a good thing.  The piece is well worth the read, and it may be found . . .


• Obama Still Dislikes “Anti-Trade Sentiment”--Tom Piatak
  David Frum has now praised Barack Obama for urging Congress to ratify free-trade pacts with Colombia, South Korea, and Panama, saying this represents “an amazing turnabout for President Obama.”  Actually, Obama’s support for free t . . .