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  Election Suspense

  By John Derbyshire

  There are three major possibilities for Election 2020's outcome: a Democratic victory, a Republican victory, or chaos. A disputed election could give way to political paralysis and social disorder. Next year could be even more chaotic than 2020.

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  Death of a Propositional Nation

  By William J. Watkins Jr.

  The American nation is being destroyed for failing to live up to the ideal of equality. No part of American heritage is safe from destruction in the name of equality, not even that of equality's chief proponent, Abraham Lincoln.

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  Up From Libertarianism

  By C. Jay Engel

  Libertarianism was a way forward for those disillusioned with America's two-party system, but it is now clear that the ideals of liberty have been subverted by the left. Only political power can preserve the cultural and ethnic roots of America.

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Society & Culture

• Society & Culture

  Fourth Generation War Comes to a Theater Near You

  By William Lind

  The American State is losing legitimacy and the next president can do little to restore it. People are transferring their loyalty from the State to causes like race, religion, ideology, or politics. Welcome to "Fourth Generation War."

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  The Left's Delusions on Crime and Policing

  By Alan J. Levine

  The George Floyd case is an example of the left projecting its obsession with racism, real or supposed, on the whole world. In reality, crime statistics show that there is no real crisis of police killing blacks, or of police killing anyone else.

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Reviews

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  What the Editors Are Reading

  By Mark G. Brennan, James Kalb

  The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967) by Bernard Bailyn, and The End of the Modern World (1950) by Romano Guardini.

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  Rebranding the Right

  By Timothy D. Lusch

  In his latest book, Andrew Bacevich argues the "conservative brand" has been tarnished by popular personalities like Trump and Rush Limbaugh. But conservatism is not a brand nor an ideology—it is a disposition and is no place for purity tests.

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  Secession Becomes Thinkable

  By Donald Livingston

  America is coming apart and is "already two nations," F. H. Buckley argues. Once unthinkable, a breakup looks increasingly likely. But can it be done constitutionally and peacefully? Donald Livingston reviews Buckley's case in "American Secession."

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  The Poor Man's Sam Francis

  By Pedro Gonzalez

  America's managerial elite exploits racial and class resentments to enhance its bureaucratic power. This insight and others by Chronicles columnist Sam Francis is imitated but not exceeded today in books like Michael Lind's The New Class War

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  Books in Brief: October 2020

  By John M. DeJak, Annie Holmquist

  Retroculture: Taking America Back, by William S. Lind and Coming Home: Reclaiming America’s Conservative Soul, by Ted V. McAllister and Bruce P. Frohnen

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Remembering the Right

• Remembering the Right

  Remembering Russell Kirk

  By Jason Jewell

  Kirk taught conservatives about the need to engage the culture on levels other than those of law and politics. The conservative, Kirk insisted, must speak on core concerns not normally addressed in public policy manuals.

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Polemics & Exchanges

• Polemics & Exchanges

  A Conciliar Critique, Etc.

  Letters from readers and responses from Chronicles writers on Vatican II and Catholic social doctrine, the Pilgrims and the English Civil War, and on the concept of jury nullification.

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In This Number

• In This Number

  In This Number: October 2020

  By Devin Foley

  A note from Charlemagne Institute Chief Executive Devin Foley on Chronicles' recent readers survey. Mr. Foley also introduces this hallmark issue. "We are fighting a spiritual battle...one that will be determined by the will to power."

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Editorials

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  When Is Enough Pandering Really Enough?

  By Paul Gottfried

  Republican strategists are trying to enlarge the GOP's tent to accommodate demographics among whom Trump has had the least support: suburban, college-educated women, and blacks. This clumsy effort ignores his base, especially Southern, rural whites.

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Correspondence

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  Was Poland's Notorious Communist Dictator Actually a Conservative?

  By Michal Krupa

  Polish leader Wojciech Jaruzelski was a communist dictator, but one whose decisions were guided by the desire to maintain order and stability against a revolutionary wave; a ruler guided by geopolitical realism. Just now, scholars are realizing this.

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Columns

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  Biden's Would-Be Globalist Foreign Policy

  By Srdja Trifkovic

  Joe Biden is a creature of the foreign policy establishment and his administration would return America to the globalist status quo: more international agreements like the Paris accord and more foreign wars to keep defense contractors profitable.

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  U.S. Politics Gives Brits a Bad Trip

  By Freddy Gray

  The fact that Donald Trump might be reelected strikes lots of Brits as mad. However, Brits who aren’t conditioned by the mainstream press get euphoric when watching Trump confront Black Lives Matter, Beijing, and the political elites.

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  Our Recessional Culture

  By Tom Piatak

  We have forgotten God. America's journey from Camelot to COVID was the result of many wrong turns, but abandoning our faith was central to our political, economic, moral, and cultural decline.

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  The Sensual and the Savage

  By George McCartney

  In Yes, God, Yes, writer and director Karen Maine ridicules Catholics for their supposed ignorance and sexual attitudes. The main character, played by Natalia Dyer, is caught between her religious training and her longing for the forbidden.

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  Here's Looking at You, Beirut

  By Taki Theodoracopulos

  America is becoming a continent sized Lebanon: a failed state that cannot control its own borders, rife with political corruption and factionalism. Taki recounts his time in Beirut in the '70s, and notices some similarities to today.

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