Chronicles Magazine February 2020

Deconstructing the 1619 Project

Brion McClanahan - JANUARY 30, 2020

Several years ago, I purchased a used copy of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974), one of the five most important books on American slavery that have appeared in the last 50 years....

Remembering the Right

Remembering Albert Jay Nock
Joseph Stromberg - JANUARY 30, 2020
As a conservative “anarchist” and non-interventionist with anti-vocational views on education, Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) can seem paradoxical. His influence was lasting and he took unconventional stances on many topics. He viewed conservatism...
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Remembering the Right

Remembering Richard Weaver
Jay Langdale - JANUARY 30, 2020
Native Southerner and traditionalist conservative, Richard Weaver (1910-1963) was a unique figure in the rise of the modern American right. Weaver, a longtime professor at the University of Chicago, was an historian, literary critic, and...
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REVIEWS

Apologizing for the Bother
Timothy D. Lusch - JANUARY 30, 2020
“It’s a small, white, scored oval tablet.” A little pill stands between Florent-Claude Labrouste and his planned defenestration. It offers only a temporary reprieve from the meaninglessness of life. As the narrator of Michel Houellebecq’s latest...
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REVIEWS

Nationalism for the Lukewarm
Paul Gottfried - JANUARY 30, 2020
It seems that Rich Lowry has taken time off from castigating Donald Trump and calling for the prompt removal of Confederate memorial monuments to compose an entire book making “the case for nationalism.” A media launch was provided by Fox News’s...
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Society & Culture

The Reinvention of Reconstruction
Brion McClanahan - JANUARY 30, 2020
American conservatives have rightly viewed the post-Civil War Reconstruction period as a tragic era rife with corruption, scandal, mismanagement, and unconstitutional uses of power at both the state and federal level. Unfortunately, many have...
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Society & Culture

The Great Debate: Lincoln's Legacy
H.A. Scott Trask - JANUARY 30, 2020
The year 1975, for those of us old enough to remember, was a calm and quiet time in the United States. The Vietnam War and Watergate were both over, the riots and protests had ceased, and everybody liked our presiding nonpartisan president, who...
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Chronicles Magazine February 2020

Deconstructing the 1619 Project

Remembering Albert Jay Nock

Remembering Richard Weaver

Apologizing for the Bother

Nationalism for the Lukewarm

The Reinvention of Reconstruction

The Great Debate: Lincoln's Legacy

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