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Acts of God and Others

The collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa on the motorway that links Italy to Monte Carlo and the French Riviera reminds me of one of the great American novels: The Bridge of San Luis Rey.

According to the Washington Post, McAllen, Texas is an “all-American city,” albeit one “that speaks Spanish.” So it’s small wonder that “immigration isn’t a problem for this Texas town—it’s a way of life.”

The Establishment

Ralph Berry

We need a word for the forces that govern our lives. Establishment, a term popularized by Henry Fairlie in the 1950’s, is common currency. He meant by it “the whole matrix of official and social relationships within which power is exercised.”

Stepping Up to the Plate

Justin Raimondo

At the end of Garet Garrett’s Rise of Empire, the grizzled old prophet of the dystopia we’re living in held out hope to his conservative comrades and their intellectual descendants.

What Really Happened

John C. Seiler, Jr.

I call 2016 the Chronicles Election. The issues discussed in this magazine, often a lonely voice in the wilderness, for more than 30 years finally caught up with the national political discourse and got a president elected.

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Letter From Crete: The Summer of Greek Discontent
Srdja Trifkovic | September 25, 2018
The daily reality of many common Greeks is even grimmer than the statistical balance sheet. Its population has fallen by over three percent because of rising emigration and a falling birth rate. Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, mostly Albanians, have taken their place, causing a continuous violent crime wave.
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Cochin Explains Kavanaugh
Aaron D. Wolf | September 24, 2018
"Before the bloody Terror of ’93, in the republic of letters there was, from 1765 to 1780, a bloodless terror, for which the Encyclopedia was the Committee of Public Safety and d’Alembert the Robespierre. This terror swept away reputations just as the other chopped off heads. Its guillotine was slander, 'infamy,' as it was then called."
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Origins and Outcome
Justus D. Doenecke | September 24, 2018
To the degree that it is remembered at all, the America First Committee (AFC) has gone down in history as an organization most suspect, at best composed of good people serving a bad cause, at worst riddled with conscious agents of a Nazi transmission belt.
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Has Russia Given Up on the West?
Pat Buchanan | September 21, 2018
By the end of his second term, President Ronald Reagan, who had called the Soviet Union an "evil empire," was strolling through Red Square with Russians slapping him on the back. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.
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