Chronicles Magazine June 2018

Impossible Dreams: The West’s Undying Love Affair With Marx

Claude Polin - MAY 10, 2018

Is Marxism Dead? If the average citizen of a Western society were asked that question, it seems to me he would readily answer that Marxism is indeed a very dead idea surviving only in improbable boondocks like North Korea or Cuba, and even there...

Society & Culture

Lessons From Libya: How Not to Ruin Syria
Ted Galen Carpenter - MAY 10, 2018
In the aftermath of the U.S.-led air and missile strikes on Syria for the April incident in which Bashar al-Assad’s government allegedly used chemical weapons against innocent civilians, calls are growing for the Trump administration to deepen...
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Society & Culture

Syria and Our Deaths of Despair
Mark Brennan - MAY 10, 2018
Just two days after the alleged April 9 chemical attack in Douma, Syria, TV host Tucker Carlson asked Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, “What is the American national security interest that would be served by regime change in Syria?”
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Society & Culture

Cultural Marxists and the Stranglehold of “Race”
Boyd D. Cathey - MAY 10, 2018
One of the subjects that most self-styled conservatives seem incapable of discussing in any depth—indeed, it is one they often flee from like mice before the hungry house cat—is race.
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IN OUR TIME

One Nation Divided
Chilton Williamson Jr. - MAY 10, 2018
Since 1892, when the original text was composed, the Pledge of Allegiance has been revised three times. Viewed chronologically, the alterations appear to have aimed at a greater specificity, but also a wider and deeper self-assurance.
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Correspondence

Homesick in America
Wayne Allensworth - MAY 10, 2018
“Darlin,’” she said, “I’ll get that. Go ahead and take it.” She was a weathered-looking woman with mousy light brown hair drawn back in a bun and the plain, honest look of one of those faces you see in Depression-era photos from the Dust Bowl,...
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THE AMERICAN INTEREST

Syria: A Deep State Victory
Srdja Trifkovic - MAY 10, 2018
The latest escalation of the Syrian crisis started with the false-flag poison gas attack in Douma on April 7. It was followed a week later by the bombing of three alleged chemical-weapons facilities by the United States, Britain, and France.
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Chronicles Magazine June 2018

Impossible Dreams: The West’s Undying Love Affair With Marx

Lessons From Libya: How Not to Ruin Syria

Syria and Our Deaths of Despair

Cultural Marxists and the Stranglehold of “Race”

One Nation Divided

Homesick in America

Syria: A Deep State Victory

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