View Middle America's Road to Power By Pedro Gonzalez Conventional conservatives today are like members of an oppressed proletariat defending the oligarchy and its bread and circuses. The populist right must forge a revolutionary conservative movement indigestible to the current establishment. Read More
View Dissecting a Dirty Election By John Derbyshire It seems likely Biden will slink into the presidency through a hopelessly corrupt U.S. voting system. If so, we can expect federal "woke" ideology to intensify, a Chinese challenge to U.S. power, and a purge of Trumpists from the Republican Party. Read More
View The State Versus the American Culture By S. T. Karnick The production of American culture has declined to the level of the vulgar, sensational, and anti-intellectual. Don't look to the free market for the source of this decay; look to the corroding influence of the federal government. Read More
Society & Culture Vipers in Ivory By Anthony Esolen Reflections on three decades of teaching and defending Western civilization while its academic enemies gained power. Read More
Reviews What the Editors Are Reading: December 2020 By George McCartney, Taki Theodoracopulos Taki Theodoracopulos reads Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century and George McCartney reads George Orwell's Coming Up for Air Read More
Reviews Defending the Founding Against the Right By Grant Havers Conservatives such as Patrick Deneen, Michael Hanby, Rod Dreher, and others have put the American founders on trial for causing the social and moral ills that afflict America today. Robert Reilly mounts a defense against this attack from the right. Read More
Reviews The Disillusionment of Diversity By Alexander Riley In Human Diversity, Charles Murray summarizes the evidence from neuroscience and behavioral genetics that some significant portion of the causes of social disparities along sexual, racial, and class lines are based on genetic inheritance. Read More
Reviews The Adolescent Empire By Charles W. Sharpe, Jr. Each of the world's empires has been framed around an ideal human type, James Kurth argues in The American Way of Empire. The American empire was designed by the post-World War II man and born on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Read More
Reviews Books in Brief: December 2020 By Mark G. Brennan, Derek Turner Reviews of Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay and 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator by David Butterfield. Read More
Reviews What I Learned From the Left By Mark G. Brennan, Stephen B. Presser, Paul Gottfried, Robert L. Paquette, Pedro Gonzalez, Alexander Riley In this new Review section feature, Chronicles authors and editors recommend significant books and authors from the opposite end of the ideological spectrum. Read More
Remembering the Right Remembering Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn By Lee Congdon Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn recognized that the problems confronting Russians, indeed all men, were fundamentally spiritual, not political, in nature. No political system, therefore, could provide a solution to them, and that included democracy. Read More
Polemics & Exchanges December 2020 Polemics: A Commie Mediocrity? Letters from Chronicles readers, with occasional responses from the magazine's editors and writers. Read More
Editorials The Left Plays the Racism Game by Its Own Rules By Paul Gottfried The left may freely practice racism as well as terrorism, providing that whites or dissident racial minorities, like black policemen, are targeted. The right accepts this double standard rather than demanding to be treated with dignity. Read More
Correspondence Under Cover of Darkness By Jack Trotter Among all the monuments that have been toppled in our recent iconoclastic mania, the Calhoun Monument is one which stood out as an attack, not so much on a particular man, but on an idea: states’ rights, and the concomitant right of secession. Read More
Correspondence New York's New Normal By James Kalb What happens when the city that never sleeps locks down? When commuters stay home, and subways, shops, restaurants, theaters, museums, libraries, schools, playgrounds, public gardens, sports arenas, and churches are deserted? Read More
Columns Dark Clouds Ahead By Srdja Trifkovic If America’s contested election ends in Joe Biden’s inauguration, the world will be less safe, as a Biden administration is likely to resume its perpetual policies of regime change and foreign military intervention. Read More
Columns A Revolution Delayed By Tom Piatak Despite the overwhelming institutional opposition he faced, Trump's reelection campaign was a bravura performance. It strongly suggests that the nationalist and populist themes that propelled Trump to victory in 2016 have lost none of their potency. Read More
Columns The Devil's Collectives By George McCartney When the cretinous backwoods characters of The Devil All the Time are not killing and raping one another, they are tearfully calling upon Jesus to save their souls. George McCartney reviews an ugly film that embraces collective nihilism. Read More
Columns America's Deceitful Elite By Taki Theodoracopulos Lying is the new normal as far as our governing elite are concerned. The mainstream media has painted Christians as nuts and 74 million Trump voters as bigots, racists, and illiterate yahoos, while insisting that blacks ought to feel oppressed. Read More