Chronicles Magazine July 2019

Revisiting Suffrage

Anthony Esolen - JUNE 14, 2019

One hundred years have now passed since both houses of Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. For a long time, both major parties were ready to grant the suffrage, should American women...

Correspondence

'Brazilian Trump' Rides Wave of Low Expectations
Emma Elliott Freire - JUNE 14, 2019
Jair Bolsonaro’s election to the presidency of Brazil last year provoked a media meltdown similar to Donald Trump’s victory in 2016.
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Correspondence

Farage’s European Victory Upends British Politics
Nicholas Farrell - JUNE 14, 2019
When the 751 Members of the new European Parliament (MEPs) gather in the French city of Strasbourg on July 2, the largest national group present in all the EU will be the MEPs of Britain’s new Brexit Party led by Nigel Farage.
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The Countermarch

The Word Remains
Scott P. Richert - JUNE 14, 2019
The last time I visited John Lukacs at Pickering Close, his home just outside of Phoenixville, Penn., he greeted me in Hungarian. My knowledge of that language is confined to goulash and paprikash and the proper pronunciation of Budapest, so I...
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Society & Culture

Gun Grabbers Wave the Red Flag
Joshua Doggrell - JUNE 14, 2019
Every man, whether he is conscious of it or not, has drawn a line in the sand behind which he will not retreat. Most Americans have ancestors who defended that line when it was crossed by government tyranny. It is now being crossed in Colorado.
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Society & Culture

U.S. Economy Nears Growth Record
Greg Kaza - JUNE 14, 2019
The U.S. economy, absent a precipitous decline in payroll employment this quarter, will set a momentous record in July: the longest economic expansion in the nation’s 243-year history.
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Society & Culture

All Hail Our New Chinese Masters
Mark Brennan - JUNE 14, 2019
When the alma mater calls, I answer, even if all I’m answering is a request for money. So, when a former classmate from Cornell University asked me to speak to his students in the school’s joint finance MBA program with China’s Tsinghua...
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Chronicles Magazine July 2019

Revisiting Suffrage

'Brazilian Trump' Rides Wave of Low Expectations

Farage’s European Victory Upends British Politics

The Word Remains

Gun Grabbers Wave the Red Flag

U.S. Economy Nears Growth Record

All Hail Our New Chinese Masters

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