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April 2020

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April 2020

The Old Left Wasn't Very Leftist

By Paul Gottfried

It would be impossible to imagine any shared moral ground between the left that existed in the 1930s and what today presents itself as their intellectual descendants.
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Blog

April 2020

Kissinger's Call for a New World Order

By Patrick J Buchanan

Kissinger has declared that it is now an imperative that the world's leaders, even as they deal with the raging pandemic, begin to make the "transition to the post-coronavirus order."
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Editorials

April 2020

What Has COVID-19 Done to Our Money?

By Edward Welsch

While left and right squabble over the right approach to COVID-19, the Fed prints the U.S. dollar into oblivion.
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Reviews

April 2020

Books in Brief

By John DeJak

John DeJak reviews Václav Benda's The Long Night of the Watchman
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Polemics & Exchanges

April 2020

Polemics & Exchanges

Prof. Brion McClanahan answers a critic of his "Reinventing Reconstruction" article in the February number
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Editorials

April 2020

The Unclubbable

By Paul Gottfried

The late Joe Sobran used to refer to liberal high society as "the hive.” What Joe was highlighting were certain qualities that he associated with the fashionable left, e.g., extreme clannishness, the exclusion of those who deviated from...
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Reviews

April 2020

What the Editors Are Reading

By Mark G Brennan

Reviews of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile and Diego Gambetta's The Sicilian Mafia
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Views

April 2020

Coins of the Realm

By Anthony Esolen

It is hard for us to imagine that ordinary people used to care about the design of public objects: coins, dollars, bridges, court houses, town halls, churches, schools, and even factories.... We need new coins to reflect our modern reality.
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In This Number

April 2020

In This Number

By Devin Foley

A note from the publisher introducing the April/May 2020 Chronicles.
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Column

April 2020

#MeToo for Me, But Not for Thee

By Taki Theodoracopulos

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Column

April 2020

Epidemic for the Record Books

By Roger D McGrath

As the hysterical coronavirus overreaction crashes our economy, I can’t help but think of the Spanish flu, which took some 675,000 American lives in 1918 and 1919. Adjusting for the difference in the size of the American population then and now,...
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Remembering the Right

April 2020

Remembering William F. Buckley, Jr.

By Jack Trotter

Two years after the death of the man whom one of his biographers, John Judis, dubbed the patron saint of modern conservatism, Encounter Books brought out a splendidly packaged omnibus volume of his columns and essays, entitled Athwart History:...
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Remembering the Right

April 2020

Remembering Willmoore Kendall

By David Frisk

Among the 20th-century conservative movement’s legendary leaders, Willmoore Kendall (1909-1967) stands out as the one who most effectively offered a grounding in a specifically American philosophy. There is also a timeliness in this remarkable...
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Reviews

April 2020

Traditionalism Redux

By Derek Turner

Many intemperate critics have attacked President Trump and his intellectual influences. Benjamin Teitelbaum is not one of them. Cleverer and more fair-minded than most critiques, War for Eternity strives to show that many modern national...
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Reviews

April 2020

Fatal Amendments

By Betsy Clarke

Enthusiastic defenders of the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution are fundamentalist cultists—and women and minorities are their victims. At least, that is the thesis of University of Miami law professor Mary Anne Franks’ new book,...
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Reviews

April 2020

Hitler vs. the Anglo-Americans

By Srdja Trifkovic

On April 20, Adolf Hitler turns 131. Ten days later comes the 75th anniversary of his earthly demise in the ruins of Berlin, but he is still our contemporary par excellence. He continues to haunt and fascinate. Hitler’s countenance, his very...
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Society & Culture

April 2020

Loveline: Stealth Conservative Talk Radio

By Mark Bauerlein

Some conservative converts got there by reading National Review and Whittaker Chambers’ Witness. Others watched leftist comrades become too radical, or saw the Soviet Union collapse, or recoiled at political correctness. The Loveline caller made...
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Society & Culture

April 2020

Faux Originalism

By Mark Pulliam

Is Antonin Scalia’s originalism—indeed, constitutional self-government itself—passé? The eternal temptation to read one’s own values into the Constitution beguiles even religious conservatives espousing natural law.
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Correspondence

April 2020

Letter from Twickenham: In Deepest Remainland

By Piers Shepherd

One would be hard pressed to find a more pleasant London neighborhood than the leafy suburb of Twickenham, where this author resides. Situated on the Thames River and immersed in history, Twickenham was for years a bastion of conservatism. In the...
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Column

April 2020

The Geopolitics of Coronavirus

By Srdja Trifkovic

The COVID-19 outbreak initially looked like a periodic epidemic in the manner of porcine and avian flus, SARS, or the West Nile virus: a temporary problem which affects other people, usually far away. This virus turned out to be different,...
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Column

April 2020

Family Finances

By George McCartney

Parasite may be both the most amusing and the most horrifying movie of the year. That is, if you can get past its inept attempt at making a political statement.
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