Chronicles Magazine June 2017

Regime Change in Syria: Pick Your Poison

Doug Bandow - MAY 05, 2017

Modern Syria was created during World War I. Under the heavy influence of France, it had little real geopolitical significance. During the Cold War Damascus was allied with the Soviet Union but was no more successful than other Arab states in...

EDITORIALS

Blaspheming Liberals
Aaron D. Wolf - MAY 05, 2017
“Free speech!” has been the rallying cry of Republicans and conservatives for months on end. This really ought to stop.
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Correspondence

Getting Medieval on Middle Age
Timothy D. Lusch - MAY 05, 2017
In my youth, I took degrees in history and philosophy, criminal justice, and law—areas of study that went through the Middle Ages on the way to becoming the grown-up disciplines they are today on the campus of Political Correctness University.
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Society & Culture

Healthcare: Seeking Solidarity Without Socialism
Joseph Pearce - MAY 05, 2017
Healthcare is a problem, and not merely a sociopolitical one. If we are to believe the media pundits, it’s also very much a religious question.
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IN OUR TIME

The Great Transparency Racket
Chilton Williamson Jr. - MAY 05, 2017
“Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the motto of the Washington Post. The editors of the Post belong to the honorable group of which Norman Podhoretz once confessed himself a member—Idolaters of Democracy.
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Heresies

Shameless Venus Goes to Prom
Aaron D. Wolf - MAY 05, 2017
Body-shaming is now a deadly sin, which can be expiated only by the elimination of all dress codes. The entire football team agrees, and has volunteered to hold your purse while you march around in protest, wearing yoga pants and spaghetti straps.
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Correspondence

Scandalous Education: UT’s War on Standards
Jon Cassidy - MAY 05, 2017
In 2003, the Supreme Court expected “that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary” in university admissions. That was the conventional wisdom of the time.
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Chronicles Magazine June 2017

Regime Change in Syria: Pick Your Poison

Blaspheming Liberals

Getting Medieval on Middle Age

Healthcare: Seeking Solidarity Without Socialism

The Great Transparency Racket

Shameless Venus Goes to Prom

Scandalous Education: UT’s War on Standards

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