Chronicles Magazine February 2018

Beyond Imagination: Uranium One

Anne Williamson - JANUARY 11, 2018

The multilayered story surrounding Uranium One—the former South African, then Canadian, and now Russian company, of which both Bill and Hillary Clinton and their family foundation are the enriched beneficiaries—has all the usual elements of a...

IN OUR TIME

The Long Retreat Through the Institutions
Chilton Williamson Jr. - JANUARY 11, 2018
Twenty-sixteen was the year when American liberals confidently expected to consolidate the quiet political and cultural revolution they had been conducting for decades in the coming national elections.
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EDITORIALS

Return of the Kings
Chilton Williamson Jr. - JANUARY 11, 2018
In a television appearance on January 7, President Emmanuel Macron of France, rather than addressing his compatriots exclusively, directed his remarks to his “fellow citizens of the E.U.,” saying, “2018 is a very special year, and I will need you...
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EDITORIALS

Shoes to Fill
Daniel McCarthy - JANUARY 11, 2018
America is a nation of normal people who find themselves thrust into increasingly abnormal situations. Left-wing ideologues want to take a country of families, churches, and businesses and turn it into a playpen of radical identities.
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EDITORIALS

Trump, Beating the Odds
Greg Kaza - JANUARY 11, 2018
U.S. employment increased over President Trump’s first year in office, expanding from 145,541,000 in January to 147,380,000 in December, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Thus, amid the sound and fury of #NeverTrump media coverage,...
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EDITORIALS

Feds: Stop “Helping”
The Hon. John J. Duncan, Jr. - JANUARY 11, 2018
Student-loan debt in the United States is now $1.48 trillion. That incredible sum is a heavy drag on the economy and a burden on young people. And federal intervention in education is the cause.
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Heresies

Cult of America, Part I
Aaron D. Wolf - JANUARY 11, 2018
Whether or not America is or ever was a Christian nation is hotly debated. It is fashionable today on the left to ascribe whatever currently is deemed by it to be unacceptable to the legacy of privileged patriarchal white men whose Christianity...
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REVIEWS

Big Tech as Big Brother
John Seiler, Jr. - JANUARY 11, 2018
Conservatives more than anyone else view with a gimlet eye the rise of the Internet and the gigantic tech companies that are taking over ever larger parts of our lives.
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REVIEWS

Drain the Racket
Betsy Clarke - JANUARY 11, 2018
When Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was first passed, “help wanted: men” and “help wanted: women” ads were common in newspapers. Private employers could hire and fire for discriminatory reasons.
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REVIEWS

Time’s Terpsichorean
Derek Turner - JANUARY 11, 2018
Anthony Powell’s million-word, 12-volume novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time, is one of the great achievements of postwar English literature, attracting near-universal praise for its subtle and textured evocation of England between World...
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Correspondence

What Mean Ye By These Stones?
Jerry Salyer - JANUARY 11, 2018
Pro-slavery or no, a single one of Fitzhugh’s works is easily worth all the publications of a dozen 21st-century mainstream conservatives—neo-or crunchy. Who believes that modern man is so enlightened that he has nothing to learn from Fitzhugh,...
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Correspondence

Chained Bible
Ralph Berry - JANUARY 11, 2018
The Church of England is now a citadel of advanced liberalism. It went over to secularism long ago, and its zealots intensify their hold upon doctrine and practice. The charge sheet includes, but is not confined to, support for the transgender...
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Society & Culture

Freedom From Monopolies
William Watkins Jr. - JANUARY 11, 2018
In June 2017, the European Union fined Google a record-breaking €2.42 billion for abusing the dominance of its popular search engine while building its online shopping service.
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REVIEWS

Shepherd in a Strange Land
Carl E. Olson - JANUARY 11, 2018
“I’m a pastor, not a scholar,” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia since 2011, said when I interviewed him earlier last year for Catholic World Report about his new book. “A bishop’s job is helping people get to...
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REVIEWS

Books in Brief
Chilton Williamson Jr. - JANUARY 11, 2018
This is an excellent account—part social, part military, and part political—of the Mexican-American War, fought between 1846 and 1848 and concluded by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1849 that ceded, essentially, the northern half of Mexico to...
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REVIEWS

What the Editors Are Reading
Chilton Williamson Jr. - JANUARY 11, 2018
Anthony Powell’s 12-volume Dance to the Music of Time is a work I’ve had in mind to look into for decades without ever having done so, until the publication last year of Hilary Spurling’s biography of the late English novelist.
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Society & Culture

American Artisan
Christopher Sandford - JANUARY 11, 2018
Whenever Robert Valade embarked on a commissioned piece, or simply took his hammer and chisel to cut an exquisitely fashioned design into a gift for a friend, he first bowed his large head and prayed to God to help him finish the job right.
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The Music Column

“The World’s Greatest Pianist”
James O. Tate - JANUARY 11, 2018
The lives of musicians can be more than a bit repetitive. The same patterns are repeated again and again, as is the case with athletes—with all people who master a particular art or calling.
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THE AMERICAN INTEREST

Neocon Security Strategy
Srdja Trifkovic - JANUARY 11, 2018
Devising a great power’s national-security strategy is serious business. When external challenges are properly evaluated, tasks prioritized, and resources allocated, the results can be impressive.
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Sins of Omission

The Klondike Stampede, Part II
Roger McGrath - JANUARY 11, 2018
The 250 Indians who inhabited Dyea on the eve of the gold rush were Chilkats, members of the Tlingit tribe. They were short and stocky, and excellent packers. They commonly carried packs of 100 pounds or more.
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BETWEEN THE LINES

Campus Utopias
Justin Raimondo - JANUARY 11, 2018
As we gathered in the gazebo, sitting on the hard white benches with the paint peeling off in strips, nursing Marlboros—the girls wielding cigarette-holders, like scepters—we decided then and there who and what was the main obstacle to our goal.
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The Countermarch

Freedom From Obligation
Scott P. Richert - JANUARY 11, 2018
For many Americans at or near the mid-century mark of their lives, Frank Capra has shaped their understanding of the meaning of Christmas in a way that only Charles Dickens could possibly rival.
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Short Views

The New Deplorables
Tom Piatak - JANUARY 11, 2018
After Roy Moore secured the Republican nomination to fill Jeff Sessions’ seat in the U.S. Senate, the Washington Post ran an article claiming that, roughly four decades ago, Moore had dated two teenage girls and asked out a third in front of her...
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IN THE DARK

Signs and Revelations
George McCartney - JANUARY 11, 2018
Three Billboards is hilarious; yet it could hardly be sadder. How can it be both at once? That’s director Martin McDonagh’s signature move. He’s a practitioner of a Swiftian satire that’s blacker than pitch and thus guaranteed to delight some...
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UNDER THE BLACK FLAG

Never Be Royals
Taki Theodoracopulos - JANUARY 11, 2018
Had she claimed to be 100-percent African-American, or to be a lesbian, transgender, or simply bisexual, the adoration would have been even more pronounced. If she had a criminal record, the perverse New York Times would have gone bananas,...
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Chronicles Magazine February 2018

Beyond Imagination: Uranium One

The Long Retreat Through the Institutions

Return of the Kings

Shoes to Fill

Trump, Beating the Odds

Feds: Stop “Helping”

Cult of America, Part I

Big Tech as Big Brother

Drain the Racket

Time’s Terpsichorean

What Mean Ye By These Stones?

Chained Bible

Freedom From Monopolies

Shepherd in a Strange Land

Books in Brief

What the Editors Are Reading

American Artisan

“The World’s Greatest Pianist”

Neocon Security Strategy

The Klondike Stampede, Part II

Campus Utopias

Freedom From Obligation

The New Deplorables

Signs and Revelations

Never Be Royals

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