Chronicles Magazine January 2020

The Unbearable Burden of Being

Anthony Esolen - DECEMBER 01, 2019

What has brought upon us the madness of the “transgender,” with all its sad denial of the beauty and particularity of male and female? To see the cause, we must diagnose the malady. It is boredom: an irritable impatience with the things that...

Remembering the Right

Remembering Robert Nisbet
James Kalb - DECEMBER 01, 2019
It is hard to imagine anyone today having a career like Robert Nisbet’s: professor at Berkeley, Arizona, and Columbia; dean and vice-chancellor at the University of California, Riverside; author of widely used sociology textbooks; and co-founder,...
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Remembering the Right

Remembering Eugene Genovese
Robert L. Paquette - DECEMBER 01, 2019
Eugene Genovese was one of the most influential and controversial historians of his generation. Whether Genovese ever self-identified as a conservative remains an intriguing question, without a simple answer. Few people knew him better than I did.
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Correspondence

Is Seattle Dying?
Christopher Sandford - DECEMBER 01, 2019
Not long ago, I found myself sitting one sunny Friday afternoon in the Unity Museum in Seattle, notebook in hand, as a group of fresh-faced college undergraduates participated in a debate over whether or not their city is dying. The general...
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REVIEWS

The Making of the Midwest
John DeJak - DECEMBER 01, 2019
David McCullough’s latest offering, The Pioneers, takes the reader into that little-known period of American history in which the intrepid veterans of the Revolutionary War set out to settle the territories on the banks of the Ohio River. It was...
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REVIEWS

An Austrian Frame of Mind
Jeff Deist - DECEMBER 01, 2019
Professor Janek Wasserman, to his credit, is not a polemicist. His new book is indeed a leftist critique of the broad school of economic thought now colloquially referred to as “Austrian,” but it is not only that. It is also a lively and...
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Society & Culture

Trail Life: A Christian Answer to the Boy Scouts
Michael Leaser - DECEMBER 01, 2019
When Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced their decision to welcome and validate openly homosexual boys six years ago, Cub Scout mom Theresa Waning saw the writing on the wall. Shortly after BSA’s announcement, the church chartering her son’s...
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Chronicles Magazine January 2020

The Unbearable Burden of Being

Remembering Robert Nisbet

Remembering Eugene Genovese

Is Seattle Dying?

The Making of the Midwest

An Austrian Frame of Mind

Trail Life: A Christian Answer to the Boy Scouts

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