Chronicles Magazine January 2004

The Education of George Bush

Chilton Williamson Jr. - DECEMBER 01, 2003

I used to wonder at the deep melancholia to which Evelyn Waugh was subject in the last years of his life. “Papa,” his eldest daughter Meg would plead with him, “why are you so unhappy?”

Perspective

The Conservative Search for Order
Thomas Fleming - DECEMBER 01, 2003
The terms liberal and conservative (nearly always paired in that descending order) are now so confused as to be almost entirely useless. Originally, liberal was used to denote the ideology that aimed at the liberation of human individuals from...
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The Western Front

Evildoing Nations
Paul Gottfried - DECEMBER 01, 2003
On October 3, in an address celebrating the anniversary of German reunification, a Hessian deputy to the German Bundestag and a member of the CDU/CSU steering council, Martin Hohmann, committed a gaffe that led to his removal from his party...
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VIEWS

Consumption Taxes, Property Rights
Scott P. Richert - DECEMBER 01, 2003
Property, Merriam Webster’s tells us, is “something owned or possessed” and specifically a piece of real estate; or “the exclusive right to possess, enjoy, and dispose of a thing”—in other words, ownership.
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NEWS

It’s Springtime for Hitler in Europe
Leon Hadar - DECEMBER 01, 2003
Few would challenge the observation that the level of anti-American sentiments has been rising in Europe in recent months and has reached an historic high during the war against Iraq.
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NEWS

See, I Told You So
Cliff Kincaid - DECEMBER 01, 2003
In commenting on the reaction to Rush Limbaugh’s drug addiction, fellow radio talk-show host Michael Savage used the biblical quotation, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
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Principalities & Powers

The Cabal Strikes Back
Samuel Francis - DECEMBER 01, 2003
The cabal (or, at least, its major leaders in government) ought to be standing in the same dock that Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg once occupied, but that outcome cannot—yet—be realized.
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Chronicles Magazine January 2004

The Education of George Bush

The Conservative Search for Order

Evildoing Nations

Consumption Taxes, Property Rights

It’s Springtime for Hitler in Europe

See, I Told You So

The Cabal Strikes Back

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