Views

• Views

  Learning From Our Hard Corona Days

  By Christopher DeGroot

  The world has reached a new level of boredom, it seems. “The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room,” wrote Blaise Pascal. That sentence, like others from the Pensées (1670), is deservedly famous.

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  Black Power and the 1619 Project

  By Alexander Riley

  Radically recasting America’s formative years would be damaging enough, but The New York Times’ “1619 Project” is applying that same radical intellectual perspective on American history to contemporary social issues and problems.

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  Virginia's Creeping Authoritarianism

  By Pedro L. Gonzalez

  Even before the nationwide government crackdown in the wake of the COVID-19 virus, the unprecedented reaction of Virginia’s government against civilian protesters showcased the potential for authoritarianism to rear its head in America…

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Society & Culture

• Society & Culture

  The Theatrical Tradition of Dorothy Sayers

  By Crystal Downing

  In 1941, bestselling novelist Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) ignited a religious controversy that reverberated throughout England. Ironically, Sayers was motivated not by a defiance of tradition but by an intense desire to preserve it.

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• Society & Culture

  Plague Literature: The Threshing Floor

  By Jack Trotter

  Since plague is one of those natural disasters whose origin cannot be assigned to human agency, it can pose seemingly insoluble moral problems…Does God in fact directly will suffering, or does he merely permit it?

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Reviews

• Reviews

  What the Editors Are Reading

  By Srdja Trifkovic

  Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella of split personality, the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987) by Paul Kennedy

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• Reviews

  Books in Brief

  By Chris Timmers

  The Art of Statistics, by David Spiegelhalter (Basic Books; 448 pp., $32.00). Uncanny Valley: A Memoir, by Anna Wiener (MCD; 288 pp., $27.00).

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• Reviews

  A Skeptic on the Road of Saints

  By John DeJak

  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Timothy Egan’s latest book chronicles his pilgrimage along the Via Francigena.

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• Reviews

  The Mind Behind Big Brother

  By John O'Neill

  Few works in literature are as terrifying as 1984, that look into the future written by George Orwell and published in 1949. British scholar Dorian Lynskey unravels the novel’s themes, inspirations, and intentions in his latest book.

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• Reviews

  Empire States of Mind

  By Ronald J. Granieri

  Although this relatively short book is closer to an extended, episodic essay than to the comprehensive history of the British Empire implied by the title, it is an excellent example of the author’s style. Jeremy Black takes a broad view…

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Remembering the Right

• Remembering the Right

  Remembering Whittaker Chambers

  By Joseph S. Salemi

  At first glance, the personal history of Whittaker Chambers does not suggest a conservative frame of mind.

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• Remembering the Right

  Remembering the Southern Agrarians

  By Joe Scotchie

  In 1920 a group of writers gathered in Nashville for bi-weekly sessions of reading and dissecting each other’s prose and poetry. The group, who defended the traditional Southern way of life, became known as the Southern Agrarians.

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Polemics & Exchanges

• Polemics & Exchanges

  Defense of Bill Buckley

  By

  It is hard to know where to begin in responding to Jack Trotter’s profile of a founding father of the modern conservative movement (“Remembering William F. Buckley, Jr.,” April/May 2020).

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Editorials

• Editorials

  Looking for Moral Foundations (in All the Wrong Places)

  By Paul Gottfried

  A debate unfolded last year in American Greatness between Chronicles contributor Mark Pulliam and the Claremont Institute’s Edward Erler, a devotee of Harry Jaffa. According to Erler, Robert Bork and others who adhered to strict constitutional origi…

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Correspondence

• Correspondence

  An Easter Reflection: The Mystery of Goodness

  By Wayne Allensworth

  The sun broke through the thin, whispery clouds, and its reflection in a pool of water collected from the previous night’s rain caught my eye. Suddenly the day was bright and the morning as clear and joyful as hope itself. Resurrection Day.

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Column

• Breaking Glass

  Praying Alone

  By Philip Jenkins

  When Americans look back on 2020, the year of the virus, they will see multiple transformations. I fear that some of the most sweeping changes will come in the realm of religion, marking a grim turning point in the story of American faith.

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• The American Interest

  Monocultural Resilience

  By Srdja Trifkovic

  At the end of the ongoing global melodrama’s first quarter, it seems reasonable to predict that this will be a two-act play with the final curtain coming down in July. It will end as a tragedy, not because the outcome was preordained…

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• Short Views

  Go Big or Go Home

  By Tom Piatak

  Before the coronavirus slammed into the United States in a way that few foresaw, it seemed Donald Trump was heading to reelection based on a record of genuine, though modest, accomplishments.

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• Under the Black Flag

  The Pandemic of Godlessness

  By Taki Theodoracopulos

  It is a universally acknowledged truth that when epidemics strike, men and women turn to God.

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• In the Dark

  Hankering Hereafter

  By George McCartney

  The Invisible Man (2020) • Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss (2018) • Panic in the Streets (1950)

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