Chronicles Magazine Foreign Affairs

The Poison and the Antidote

William Lind - AUGUST 03, 2017

No historian worth his honoraria ascribes major social change to a single factor. That is ideology, not history. Nonetheless, an ideology has been and remains a large cause of America’s cultural and moral decline over the past half century.

Correspondence

The Meaning of Macron—and the “Right” in the West
Claude Polin - AUGUST 03, 2017
“He is on the right.” “That party represents the right.” These are standard expressions that are familiar today in the West, including France. But as usual, few understand or even care about the precise meaning of the word.
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City of Westminster

Gloriously Complicated
Freddy Gray - AUGUST 03, 2017
On June 8, British democracy did everything it wasn’t supposed to do. Having called a snap general election, Prime Minister Theresa May was expected to sweep everything before her. She did not.
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Short Views

Taking a Stand in Warsaw
Tom Piatak - AUGUST 03, 2017
With a monument to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising as his backdrop, President Trump delivered a forceful speech on the eve of the G20 Summit, sounding themes that would not be welcome by most other leaders of the world’s most economically powerful...
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Breaking Glass

Remembering the Old Russia
Philip Jenkins - AUGUST 03, 2017
This Fall marks the centennial of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Although few commentators today are likely to glorify that event or its aftermath, most will assume that the revolution was a regrettable necessity, which swept away a repressive...
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THE AMERICAN INTEREST

Rumors of War
Srdja Trifkovic - AUGUST 03, 2017
By the seventh month of Donald Trump’s presidency a surreal quality to U.S. foreign policy decision-making had become evident. It is at odds with both the theoretical model and historical practice.
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EDITORIALS

A Small Victory for Europe
Chilton Williamson Jr. - AUGUST 03, 2017
As the new French President, Emmanuel Macron seems determined to hitch opposites together, combine like with dislike, compatibles with incompatibles, and otherwise fudge his policies as he did during the electoral campaign.
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Chronicles Magazine Foreign Affairs

The Poison and the Antidote

The Meaning of Macron—and the “Right” in the West

Gloriously Complicated

Taking a Stand in Warsaw

Remembering the Old Russia

Rumors of War

A Small Victory for Europe

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