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  • March 2020

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  • White Man's Soul Music
    Correspondence
    March 2020

    White Man's Soul Music

    Wayne Allensworth
    Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison was the first album I ever had of my own, a Christmas gift from my parents. I listened to that album over and over on the stereo my parents had given me that year, sprawled out on the floor of the living room of the...
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  • <em>Books in Brief</em>
    Reviews
    March 2020

    Books in Brief

    John DeJak
    Journalist Tyler O’Neil of PJ Media has been busy. From roughly around the time of the Charlottesville racial conflagration in 2017 to the filling of the inkwells that were used to print this book, O’Neil has covered various aspects of the...
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  • Historical Revisionism on the Right
    Society & Culture
    March 2020

    Historical Revisionism on the Right

    Grant Havers
    Nietzsche writes in the concluding section of Twilight of the Idols, “One does not learn from the Greeks—their way is too alien, and also too fluid, to have an imperative effect, a ‘classical’ effect.” The divide between Greek antiquity and...
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  • The Myth of Nazi Inevitability
    Views
    March 2020

    The Myth of Nazi Inevitability

    Paul Gottfried
    Lately, I’ve been studying a segment of German history about which I knew little as compared with the period before World War I or the great German cultural awakening between 1770 and 1820, sometimes characterized as die Goethezeit. Germany’s...
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  • Sir Roger Scruton: Britain's Culture Warrior
    In Memoriam
    March 2020

    Sir Roger Scruton: Britain's Culture Warrior

    John M. Vella
    I first heard Roger Scruton speak at the 1993 regional Philadelphia Society meeting in Dearborn, Michigan, organized to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind. Scruton spoke on the topic of “The Conservative Mind...
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  • Brexit Got Done, Now Get Over It
    Column
    March 2020

    Brexit Got Done, Now Get Over It

    Freddy Gray
    The great 2016 vote-undoing project seems at long last to have been abandoned on both sides of the Atlantic. In Washington, President Trump’s impeachment fizzled out—a strange and pathetic affair however you look at it. Everyone is looking past...
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  • Vestigial Reds
    Editorials
    March 2020

    Vestigial Reds

    Paul Gottfried
    Diana West should be a familiar name to anyone who has studied the operation of the American Communist movement. Two of her books, America Betrayed: The Secret Assault on our Nation’s Character (2013) and The Red Thread (2019) examine the...
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  • <em>What the Editors Are Reading</em>
    Reviews
    March 2020

    What the Editors Are Reading

    Edward Welsch
    Perhaps the greatest American autobiography in both the quality of its writing and the import of its content is Whittaker Chambers’ Witness (1952). Sadly, it’s also one of the most neglected by the country’s leftist-dominated intelligentsia.
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  • The Knack of the Non-Deal
    Column
    March 2020

    The Knack of the Non-Deal

    Srdja Trifkovic
    An Arab-Israeli peace agreement is like a moderate Syrian rebel or rational leftist: It is possible to visualize, but producing one is daunting. Every attempt has failed. President Donald Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan will be no...
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  • The American Muse
    Reviews
    March 2020

    The American Muse

    Jack Trotter
    For almost as long as there have been literary works, there have been literary canons, largely established by bookish pedants who do, indeed, “quarrel unceasingly.” The quarreling began early in the third century B.C. and continues today. The...
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  • Lighting Up History
    Reviews
    March 2020

    Lighting Up History

    Devin C. Foley
    When it comes to social hierarchy, smokers are only a few notches above pedophiles. Yes, smokers are bad, they smell terrible, and they cost us money—and everyone knows it. One would expect the “smokers bad” message to saturate The Cigarette....
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  • Remembering H. L. Mencken
    Remembering the Right
    March 2020

    Remembering H. L. Mencken

    Ilana Mercer
    H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) may no longer seem relevant, but that is not his fault. Mencken was a well-read bon vivant with a taste for Teutonic philosophy and a fidelity to what he understood as truth. He was also a brilliant satirist, a longtime...
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  • COVID-19 in the Light of History
    Blog
    March 2020

    COVID-19 in the Light of History

    Srdja Trifkovic
    The pandemic’s future course and cost cannot be predicted. It does appear certain, however, that the world is experiencing changes which are likely irreversible. The contours of its geopolitical impact are becoming apparent in the rapidly...
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  • Must We Kill the Economy To Kill the Virus?
    Blog
    March 2020

    Must We Kill the Economy To Kill the Virus?

    Patrick Buchanan
    President Trump is said to be privately expressing a deepening concern at the damage the coronavirus shutdown is doing to the U.S. economy and debating whether it can be safely reopened. Though castigated for his remark, Trump has a point.
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  • What Globalism Has Wrought
    Blog
    March 2020

    What Globalism Has Wrought

    Wayne Allensworth
    No matter whether one believes the actual threat has been overstated, we can only hope that the troubles unleashed by the fear of the coronavirus will lead to a serious re-evaluation of the entire globalist project, as well as to serious...
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  • Are Americans All-In for a Long Coronavirus War?
    Blog
    March 2020

    Are Americans All-In for a Long Coronavirus War?

    Patrick Buchanan
    Will Americans suffer in social isolation, inside their own homes for months, while a state-induced Great Depression washes over the land?
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  • Can This Pandemic Usher in a New Era?
    Blog
    March 2020

    Can This Pandemic Usher in a New Era?

    Patrick Buchanan
    Nations seem to be recognizing and responding to the grim new geostrategic reality of March 2020: The pandemic is the real enemy of us all, and while we fight it, each in his own national corner, we are in this together.
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  • Tariffs Work
    Column
    March 2020

    Tariffs Work

    Tom Piatak
    For decades, American political discourse has largely operated within the spectrum of opinions voiced by the editorial pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Opinions not embraced by one of these newspapers...
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  • The Nation-State Is Back
    Blog
    March 2020

    The Nation-State Is Back

    Srdja Trifkovic
    Neoliberal globalization in its post-Cold War form has been dealt a mortal blow by COVID-19, which is a good thing. The architecture of global economic and political governance developed over the past three decades is collapsing before our eyes.
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  • The Politics of the Coronavirus
    Blog
    March 2020

    The Politics of the Coronavirus

    Paul Gottfried
    In the United States, political biases have also been evident in responses to the virus. Republicans are stressing the dire economic consequences of the shutdown and warn about doing irreparable destruction to our material well-being.
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  • Dictatorship of the Deranged
    Reviews
    March 2020

    Dictatorship of the Deranged

    Timothy D. Lusch
    A long time ago, I happened upon a cartoon in some publication or other. A single frame—in the vein of Gary Larson—depicted thousands of sheep rushing headlong off a cliff. In the middle of this great multitude, one particular sheep moved in the...
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  • Meet the Markles
    Column
    March 2020

    Meet the Markles

    Taki Theodoracopulos
    I never thought I’d get back to this silly subject for Chronicles ever again, but the Markles—as I now refer to them—have a way of getting our attention, and embarrassing Al Capone in the process. As the Feds were closing in on him, Al was told...
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  • Bad Intel
    Views
    March 2020

    Bad Intel

    Christopher Roach
    A pair of recent news items unintentionally demonstrated the ways the Intelligence Community is a primary source of our confused foreign policy in the Middle East, while also undermining President Trump here at home.
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  • How Communism Saved the Eastern Bloc from Cultural Marxism
    Society & Culture
    March 2020

    How Communism Saved the Eastern Bloc from Cultural Marxism

    Ian Henderson
    Despite living under nearly a century of oppressive, conformist, Soviet-style Communism, Eastern Bloc nations have somehow maintained strong senses of cultural, religious, linguistic, and ethnic identities. What’s more, they arguably have...
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  • And a Little Child Shall Mislead Them
    Column
    March 2020

    And a Little Child Shall Mislead Them

    Philip Jenkins
    Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has become a vastly influential force in the discussion of global climate change. Even so, policy makers are reluctant to challenge her because her global reputation verges on the hagiographic. Conservative...
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  • Is the Pandemic Killing Biden's Bid?
    Blog
    March 2020

    Is the Pandemic Killing Biden's Bid?

    Patrick Buchanan
    Trump's presidency will stand or fall on the resolution of the coronavirus crisis and how Trump is perceived as having led us in that battle.
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  • <em>First Things</em> First
    Editorials
    March 2020

    First Things First

    Edward Welsch
    After people gather into groups they formulate their own founding myths. The veracity of these stories is of secondary importance to their ability to tie people to a sense of noble purpose, shared sacrifice, and confidence that their activities...
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