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  Politics as Spiritual Warfare

  By Maureen Mullarkey

  A generation has been schooled to see American history as a parade of hypocrites and racists whose heirs are due their turn at the back of the bus. Can a culture celebrate those who want to destroy it and still stand? We are about to find out.

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  Cultural Marxism Is Marxist

  By William Lind

  Commonly known as political correctness or multiculturalism, cultural Marxism is an ideology that serves as a religion among America’s elites, one that condemns our traditional, Western, Judeo-Christian culture as “racist, sexist, and homophobic.”

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  The Modern Left Is Not Marxist, It's Worse

  By Paul Gottfried

  Today’s left has a different origin and orientation from what has been historically understood as Marxist. The current left is about open borders, filling Western countries with impoverished Third World populations, and opposing white Christians.

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Society & Culture

• Society & Culture

  Alien Maestro

  By R.J. Stove

  America has largely forgotten one of its greatest classical music conductors, German-born Karl Muck. He was ruined by World War I, labeled the "Kaiser's stooge," a "dangerous enemy alien," and deported.

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  The Life and Times of Victor Davis Hanson

  By Jesse Russell

  The American establishment in both its neoliberal and neoconservative flavors employs an army of public intellectuals to place the American liberal empire as the culmination of history. Victor Davis Hanson is chief among these court historians.

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Reviews

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  What the Editors Are Reading: November 2020

  By Jack Trotter, Paul Gottfried

  Paul Gottfried reads Aristotle's Politics and Jack Trotter reads the Southern Agrarian manifesto, Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence

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  Books in Brief: November 2020

  By Mark G. Brennan, Catharine Savage Brosman

  Reviews of David Stebenne's Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America and Éric Vuillard's The Order of the Day

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  Innocence and Experience

  By Derek Turner

  Are human beings essentially killer apes, or egalitarian pacifists? In Humankind, Rutger Bregman argues we are not as bad as we believe we are, and by believing we are bad, we may be making ourselves so.

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  The Church of Money-Grubbing Toil

  By Alexander Riley

  Americans have venerated capitalism as a species of religion, in which material wealth has become God and a strong work ethic is the ritual way toward the sacred, Eugene McCarraher argues in The Enchantments of Mammon

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  The Serfs of Silicon Valley

  By John M. DeJak

  An oligarchy has arisen from the über-rich of Silicon Valley, served by dispossessed, monastic tech-serfs and a new cultural “clerisy” in academia, media, and religious institutions, Joel Kotkin argues in The Coming of Neo-Feudalism

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Remembering the Right

• Remembering the Right

  Remembering C. S. Lewis

  By David Downing

  C. S. Lewis was one of the last living specimens of “Old Western Man,” whose worldview was grounded in classical learning and shaped by Christian faith. His was one of the most remarkable writing careers of the 20th century.

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Polemics & Exchanges

• Polemics & Exchanges

  November 2020 Polemics: His Thoughts Are Not Ours

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

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Editorials

• Editorials

  The Court Historians

  By Paul Gottfried

  The conservative establishment artificially elevates editors and commentators for its own ideological or fundraising purposes. The authorized mechanically praise each other’s statements and books, particularly if they are in sync with the party-line.

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  Considering Judge Barrett

  By Stephen B. Presser

  Amy Coney Barrett is an adherent of Antonin Scalia’s judicial philosophy, Scalia being the most celebrated proponent of originalism and textualism. Adding her to the Court may shift it in a conservative direction for the next generation.

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Columns

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  Dutiful Delirium

  By George McCartney

  In I'm Thinking of Ending Things, you can watch director Charlie Kaufman going mad, scene by scene. George McCartney reviews his latest, plus remembers a more coherent head-scratcher, The Ipcress File.

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  Hollywood Remakes the Culture

  By Taki Theodoracopulos

  Get ready for Hollywood's "woke" remakes of classic films.

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  Putin's Unsureness of Touch

  By Srdja Trifkovic

  Russia's geopolitical position is being eroded as Putin faces several crises among former Soviet republics. Putin's complacency now may increase the risk of lethal escalation with the U.S. later, as rabid Russophobes in Washington exert influence.

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  Slavery's Ironic Twist of Fate

  By Roger D. McGrath

  The left asserts that white supremacy motivated the American Colonists to conceive slavery as a founding principle. A look at the historical record, however, suggests slavery actually developed as a consequence of an infectious disease: malaria.

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