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  Slavery and the American Founding

  By Mark David Hall

  Leftist critiques of America's founding as inherently racist are deeply flawed. The Founding Fathers did not always live up to their ideals, but they formed a constitutional order intended to secure them.

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Society & Culture

• Society & Culture

  The Ride of the ‘Woke’ Valkyries

  By R.J. Stove

  Composer Richard Wagner was vastly influential and yet has been dismissed of late as "fascist," "essentialist," and "triggering." For the "woke" any attack against Wagner as a contributor to the Western canon is legitimate, however peevish or glib.

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  Nietzsche and the American Right

  By Jesse Russell

  Establishment conservatives have tried to smear the critics of liberal Enlightenment ideals by tying them to Nietzsche. This relationship is spurious, and it misses the valuable parts of what Nietzsche had to say about today's radical egalitarianism.

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• Society & Culture

  The Post-Marxist Left’s Race Problem

  By Grant Havers

  The left has largely abandoned Marxist concerns with class struggle. In fact, there's growing suspicion among leftists that Marxism is in reality a species of white supremacy, precisely because it devotes more attention to class than to race.

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Reviews

• Reviews

  Books in Brief: March 2021

  By Mark G. Brennan, Paul Gottfried

  Reviews of C. Bradley Thompson's book on the beliefs of the Founding Fathers, America's Revolutionary Mind, and of O. Carter Snead's history and philosophy of bioethics, What It Means to Be Human.

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  Transitional Failures

  By Alexander Riley

  The dubious scientific and behavioral assumptions behind transgenderism, and the growing prevalence of female-to-male transformations, are examined in Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.

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  The Life of the Mind

  By John M. DeJak

  The cultivation of the intellectual life begins in silence and reflection, Zena Hitz writes in Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life.

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  Haunts of Hobbits

  By Derek Turner

  No fictional universe has attracted as much obsessive attention as Tolkien's Middle-earth. It was born of Tolkien's long immersion in Anglo-Saxon and early medieval scholarship, his philological knowledge, and inspired by the settings of his life.

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  What the Editors Are Reading: March 2021

  By Mark G. Brennan, Stephen B. Presser

  In the March issue, Books Editor Mark G. Brennan reviews Winners Take All, and Legal Affairs Editor Stephen B. Presser recommends Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

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Remembering the Right

• Remembering the Right

  Remembering G. K. Chesterton

  By Dale Ahlquist

  English writer G. K. Chesterton was once very popular, but he was never fashionable. He made a career out of counteracting the latest, speaking out against the trendiest, and defending what is true against what is simply new.

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Polemics & Exchanges

• Polemics & Exchanges

  Too Busy for the Unborn

  Chronicles editors and writers respond to letters from readers, in the March 2021 "Polemics & Exchanges."

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Editorials

• Editorials

  What the Right Needs Now

  By Paul Gottfried

  The left rules the West because effective opposition has collapsed, and weakened conservatives have behaved in a cowardly fashion by engaging in purges of their own ranks. Here are some suggestions for reform.

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  Playing Games With Stocks

  By Jeff Deist

  The GameStop saga is more than just a tale of greed, mania, manipulation, or vengeance. It is a story of power dynamics and a challenge to those dynamics. When elites screw up money and banking as badly as they have, populist blowback is inevitable.

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Columns

• Columns

  The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted

  By Taki Theodoracopulos

  Seizing control of the means of information is the key to any successful coup. The oligarchical tech billionaires have accomplished this task with little political resistance. Freedom of speech is quickly disappearing in the West.

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• Columns

  Feminine Ordeals

  By George McCartney

  Two recent films depict two radically different female struggles: one of motherhood and loss, in Pieces of a Woman, and the other as a life lived in revenge against men, in A Promising Young Woman.

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  Canceling Uncle Tom

  By Roger D. McGrath

  Larry Elder infuriates the left by encouraging black Americans to think of themselves as American first, and to embrace conservative values such as family, education, hard work, perseverance, and self-reliance. His new film deserves wide viewership.

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  Avoiding War With Russia

  By Srdja Trifkovic

  The morbid Russophobia of President Biden's foreign policy team threatens to lead America into a catastrophic showdown with Moscow. This scenario, suddenly viable for the first time since the Cold War, would mark the end of European civilization.

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