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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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Society & Culture

• Society & Culture

  Vipers in Ivory

  By Anthony Esolen

  Reflections on three decades of teaching and defending Western civilization while its academic enemies gained power.

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Reviews

• 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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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Remembering the Right

• 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.

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Polemics & Exchanges

• Polemics & Exchanges

  December 2020 Polemics: A Commie Mediocrity?

  Letters from Chronicles readers, with occasional responses from the magazine's editors and writers.

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Editorials

• 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.

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Correspondence

• 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.

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  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?

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Columns

• 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.

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• 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.

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  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.

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  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.

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