Chronicles Magazine October 2015

• VIEWS

  Conservatives and the Gay Agenda

  Jack Trotter - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  If one had not already been convinced that the gay-rights movement in America had reached a watershed, then the events in Indiana in late March of this year must have been alarming for even the most skeptical.

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• VIEWS

  The Left’s True Target

  William Murchison - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  Arguments, as Malcolm Muggeridge astutely observed, are never about what they’re about. As when “You’re never on time anymore” turns out really to mean, “When are you going to quit sitting around and get a real job?”

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• Correspondence

  Immigration: The Greatest Government Failure of Our Times

  Marco Bassani - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  Migration is a reality that concerns no more than 200 million people on earth now living outside their country of origin—that is, only three percent of the world’s population. Why should we even talk about it?

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• IN OUR TIME

  Exceptional America

  Chilton Williamson Jr. - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  Tocqueville was the first author to apply the adjective exceptional to America, but the compliment—if he meant it as a compliment—was a backhanded one, referring narrowly to circumstances that “concurred to fix the mind of the American upon...

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• BETWEEN THE LINES

  Wrecking Ball

  Justin Raimondo - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  If The Donald’s road to the White House is blocked—either by the Republican elites or by his own tendency to go too far—and he returns to TV land, he’ll have a hard time topping this one.

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• The Rockford Files

  Burning Bright in the Darkness

  Scott P. Richert - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  To discover, at his memorial service, that Dr. John Addison Howard’s favorite verse of Scripture was Philippians 4:11 came as no surprise to anyone who knew him well.

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• REVIEWS

  Two Experiments

  Gerald Russello - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  It is a commonplace among American conservatives that, at some point in the past, the way Americans understood their constitutional and cultural tradition diverged from the reality of the constitutional order established in 1787.

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• REVIEWS

  More Than an Inkling

  Joseph Pearce - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  The Oxford Inklings by veteran Lewis and Tolkien scholar Colin Duriez, is a delightful book that will warm the hearts of those who share the author’s enthusiasm for his subject.

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• REVIEWS

  The Union as It Was

  Chilton Williamson Jr. - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  A minority on the left is possibly willing to admit that a few “good Southerners” during the War Between the States opposed slavery, secession, and the Confederacy.

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• REVIEWS

  Mechanical Nihilism

  James Kalb - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  This is a book about life in a society from which higher goods have been expelled, leaving no place for love, wonder, or beauty.

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• REVIEWS

  What the Editors Are Reading

  Chilton Williamson Jr., Aaron D. Wolf - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  In my youth I must have read nearly every word H.L. Mencken wrote—The American Language excepted, though I did dip into it from time to time before setting the book aside as being dry as the Sahara

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• Short Views

  Disenchanted With Globalism

  Tom Piatak - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  The political story this year was supposed to be a familiar one: A member of the Bush family was going to begin a successful march to the Republican nomination, and a member of the Clinton family was going to do the same thing on the Democratic side.

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• VITAL SIGNS

  The Poet: Companion of the Common Man

  Micah Mattix , Steven Jones - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  What is the role of the poet in society? In a frequently misunderstood remark, Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote in “A Defence of Poetry” (1821) that poets are the “unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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• The Music Column

  How Long Has This Been Going On?

  James O. Tate - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  We live in revolutionary times of rapid technological change, and yes, it is a little disconcerting when the rules morph and the practices mutate. But I did predict years ago that vinyl would be back, and so it is.

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• IN THE DARK

  The Curtain Descends; Everything Ends

  George McCartney - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  German director Christian Petzold’s new film, Phoenix, begins with a perfectly dark screen, while on the soundtrack a bass fiddle accompanied by a piano plays Kurt Weill’s hauntingly romantic melody “Speak Low.”

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• THE AMERICAN INTEREST

  Europe’s Ongoing Demise

  Srdja Trifkovic - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  “The Third Muslim Invasion of Europe is entering its mature stage by sea,” I observed in these pages in June, as thousands of Middle Eastern and African illegal immigrants sailed from Libya to Italy day after day.

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• VITAL SIGNS

  How to Keep From Getting Deported

  William Watkins Jr. - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  In September, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an illegal alien, although properly found to be a danger to the community, should not be removed from the United States because he considers himself to be a transgender woman.

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• VITAL SIGNS

  Nuclear Baksheesh

  Thomas Fleming - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  For several months Republicans and Democrats have been jawing over the nuclear “deal” with Iran. Unlike so many partisan debates, this one may actually involve issues of national security, but only if both sides are serious.

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• UNDER THE BLACK FLAG

  Browning Europe

  Taki Theodoracopulos - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  With every passing day, Europe is turning browner and browner, the Old Continent being overrun by a tide of humanity not seen since the upheavals following World War II.

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• EDITORIALS

  Ploys of Summer

  Aaron D. Wolf - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  When Summer of Blood 2015 came to a close, 3,702 people had been killed in the United States by people wielding guns.

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• EDITORIALS

  The Future of Europe

  Chilton Williamson Jr. - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  When the king of Poland, Jan Sobieski, defeated the Ottoman army at the Siege of Vienna in 1683, that army of 23,000 soldiers did not have scores or hundreds of thousands of hungry and desperate civilians at its back, hoping to find a new life in...

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• EDITORIALS

  The New Nationalism

  Scott P. Richert - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  During her short imprisonment for contempt of court, Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who refused on religious grounds to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples, was compared with Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Jefferson,...

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• EDITORIALS

  I Heart Big Brother

  Aaron D. Wolf - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  Ashley Madison, the adultery website seemingly named for Honey Boo Boo’s fiercest rival, unwillingly yielded all of her secrets to the prying eyes of a hacker group that calls itself The Impact Team.

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• EDITORIALS

  Kennedy v. Kennedy

  Chilton Williamson Jr. - SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  On the last day of August, Judge Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found for March for Life in its suit against the Department of Health and Human Services, among other agencies.

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• Polemics & Exchanges

  Table Talk

  SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

  “Quiet, Please,” by James O. Tate, was, like all his writing, excellent. I learned much, especially when he concentrates on providing historical and cultural knowledge.

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