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  Coins of the Realm

  By Anthony Esolen

  It is hard for us to imagine that ordinary people used to care about the design of public objects: coins, dollars, bridges, court houses, town halls, churches, schools, and even factories.... We need new coins to reflect our modern reality.

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Society & Culture

• Society & Culture

  Faux Originalism

  By Mark Pulliam

  Is Antonin Scalia’s originalism—indeed, constitutional self-government itself—passé? The eternal temptation to read one’s own values into the Constitution beguiles even religious conservatives espousing natural law.

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• Society & Culture

  Loveline: Stealth Conservative Talk Radio

  By Mark Bauerlein

  Some conservative converts got there by reading National Review and Whittaker Chambers’ Witness. Others watched leftist comrades become too radical, or saw the Soviet Union collapse, or recoiled at political correctness. The Loveline caller made a di

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Reviews

• Reviews

  Books in Brief

  By John M. DeJak

  John DeJak reviews Václav Benda's The Long Night of the Watchman

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• Reviews

  What the Editors Are Reading

  By Mark G. Brennan, Edward Welsch

  Reviews of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile and Diego Gambetta's The Sicilian Mafia

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  Hitler vs. the Anglo-Americans

  By Srdja Trifkovic

  On April 20, Adolf Hitler turns 131. Ten days later comes the 75th anniversary of his earthly demise in the ruins of Berlin, but he is still our contemporary par excellence. He continues to haunt and fascinate. Hitler’s countenance, his very...

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  Fatal Amendments

  By Betsy Clarke

  Enthusiastic defenders of the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution are fundamentalist cultists—and women and minorities are their victims. At least, that is the thesis of University of Miami law professor Mary Anne Franks’ new book,...

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  Traditionalism Redux

  By Derek Turner

  War for Eternity strives to show that many modern national conservative and populist movements are paradoxically informed by the arcane intellectual current known as traditionalism.

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Remembering the Right

• Remembering the Right

  Remembering Willmoore Kendall

  By David Frisk

  Among the 20th-century conservative movement’s legendary leaders, Willmoore Kendall (1909-1967) stands out as the one who most effectively offered a grounding in a specifically American philosophy. There is also a timeliness in this remarkable...

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• Remembering the Right

  Remembering William F. Buckley, Jr.

  By Jack Trotter

  Two years after the death of the man whom one of his biographers, John Judis, dubbed the patron saint of modern conservatism, Encounter Books brought out a splendidly packaged omnibus volume of his columns and essays, entitled Athwart History:...

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Polemics & Exchanges

• Polemics & Exchanges

  Polemics & Exchanges

  Prof. Brion McClanahan answers a critic of his "Reinventing Reconstruction" article in the February number

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In This Number

• In This Number

  In This Number

  By Devin Foley

  A note from the publisher introducing the April/May 2020 Chronicles.

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Editorials

• Editorials

  What Has COVID-19 Done to Our Money?

  By Edward Welsch

  While left and right squabble over the right approach to COVID-19, the Fed prints the U.S. dollar into oblivion.

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  The Unclubbable

  By Paul Gottfried

  The late Joe Sobran used to refer to liberal high society as "the hive.” What Joe was highlighting were certain qualities that he associated with the fashionable left, e.g., extreme clannishness, the exclusion of those who deviated from...

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Correspondence

• Correspondence

  Letter from Twickenham: In Deepest Remainland

  By Piers Shepherd

  One would be hard pressed to find a more pleasant London neighborhood than the leafy suburb of Twickenham, where this author resides. Situated on the Thames River and immersed in history, Twickenham was for years a bastion of conservatism. In the...

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Columns

• Columns

  Family Finances

  By George McCartney

  Parasite may be both the most amusing and the most horrifying movie of the year. That is, if you can get past its inept attempt at making a political statement.

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• Columns

  #MeToo for Me, But Not for Thee

  By Taki Theodoracopulos

  Human nature does not change, at least not where the Hollywood types who hung around with Harvey Weinstein are concerned. Hypocrisy, not talent, is the number one commodity in Tinseltown.

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  Epidemic for the Record Books

  By Roger D. McGrath

  As the hysterical coronavirus overreaction crashes our economy, I can’t help but think of the Spanish flu, which took some 675,000 American lives in 1918 and 1919.

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  The Geopolitics of Coronavirus

  By Srdja Trifkovic

  The contours of COVD-19's geopolitical impact are becoming apparent in the rapidly changing patterns of mental mapping, political decision-making, and economic flows in the three panregions that matter in today’s world: Asia-Pacific, Europe, and...

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