Chronicles CEO and Publisher Eric Teetsel remarks on the legacy and enduring relevance of Chronicles upon the publication's 50th anniversary.
Tag: Sam Francis
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The Indispensable Magazine
Chronicles Editor in Chief Paul Gottfried remarks on 50 years of Chronicles.
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The Regime’s Enemies: Old and New
Laura Field‘s 'Furious Minds' explains more about the left's hatred of the New Right than the paleoconservative ideas undergirding that movement.
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The Very Big Lie About Sam Francis and ‘Chronicles’
Recent attempts to smear Sam Francis and, with him, this magazine with the views of people like David Duke are just more tired myth perpetuation by the left to discredit serious American populism.
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America’s Affordability Crisis
The affordability crisis is a governing crisis: a failure to use power to deliver outcomes that make ordinary life better.
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What We Are Reading: January 2026
Short reviews of 'The Attack on Leviathan' by Donald Davidson, and 'In Order to Live' by Yeonmi Park.
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You Can’t Purge Tucker
The establishment conservative movement will not be able to stifle Tucker Carlson in the same way that it did Sam Francis and others.
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Assassination, Murder, and the Collapse of Public Order Usher in Anarcho-Tyranny
The recent spate of public murders and assassinations highlights a collapse of public order and suggests the age of “anarcho-tyranny” is upon us.
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The Modern Right’s Most Original Thinker
A new biography of Chronicles columnist Sam Francis by Joseph Scotchie is filled with quotes and stories that testify to Francis’s underappreciated brilliance and wit. Sam’s memory lives on!
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The Censorious American Right
The trick of identifying those on the uncooperative right as being “woke right” or leftists in disguise is deployed for no other reason than to keep us out of the conversation.
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We Were Right About the Managerial State
In the '80s, Chronicles emerged as the sole voice within the conservative movement questioning the ever-growing managerial state.
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Our Homegrown Ideological Enemy
We do not have to go searching abroad for the roots of our own ideological ruination.
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Why Paleoconservatism Matters
A young reader explains how and why Chronicles has played such a central role in his development as a thinker and citizen.
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Trump, Vance, and FDR
Trump and his movement are following the path blazed by the Democrats before they became the party of woke: The old FDR playbook.
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A Fighting Chance for Normalcy
In a normal country during a normal time, the Trump-Vance ticket would be cruising to victory. Alas, present-day America is far from normal.
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Wrongthink About Israel Is America’s Thought-Crime
Although Israel has been forced into asymmetrical warfare with Hamas in Gaza, labeling Americans who question U.S. involvement in this affair “anti-Semitic” is an overreach of equally asymmetric proportions.
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In Memoriam: Mary Kohler
Chairman Ray Welder remembers fellow board member and longtime Chronicles supporter Mary Kohler.
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MLK Redivivus
Martin Luther King, Jr. did not bring the races closer together; and the legacy he left behind has been one of erasing more and more of our national heritage whenever it does not fit a progressively more radical leftist agenda.
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Konstantin Chernenko Lives Here
The last thing Middle America needs is an American Chernenko. America cannot afford a dying leader at this time.
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Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Creating a sense of moral obligation to outsiders is one of Christianity’s singular achievements. But the full genius of historical Christianity was shown by its ability to do this without falling into a suicidal universalism.
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Christian Nationalism as Ethnic Survivalism
"The Case for Christian Nationalism" author Stephen Wolfe has come under fire for laying the intellectual foundation to help Protestants connect religion with a people’s sense of identity.
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White Anxiety and the GOP
White anxiety is the single greatest driver of right-wing politics in the United States, and it is as understandable as the fear one feels while trying to avoid death by drowning.
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Christian Nationalism Is a Political Fantasy
Without unity among Christians, there can be no Christian state.
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The Pygmies Squeak … Again
Neocon intellectual midgets continue to smear Sam Francis long after his death because his writings represent an effective opposition to the ruling class.
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‘Compact’ Makes an Impact
Michael Lind was a good fit for Compact magazine’s first event in New York City. Neither Lind nor the magazine has shied away from confrontation and challenging the managerial state.
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Sam Francis: Prophet of America’s Decline
Luminary paleoconservative, Chronicles' own Sam Francis, foresaw how the vast managerial state would increase its stranglehold over its citizen-subjects. But there are signs that Leviathan is losing its grip.
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Polemics & Exchanges: August 2022
Correspondence on "More Hand-Wringing About the Radical Right," by Paul Gottfried and "A Fork in Europe's Road," by Srdja Trifkovic.
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More Hand-Wringing About the Radical Right
In A World After Liberalism, Matthew Rose displays an excellent prose style, but his ideas about the so-called radical right are unrealistic, inconsistent, and not well-grounded in a historical understanding of liberalism.
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Halting the Leftward Lurch
The centrist right has capitulated to the triumphant march of the left, but true conservative opposition, such as Sam Francis offers, is attacked as far-right extremism.