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  The State of the Fake News

  By Douglas Burton

  We’ve entered an age of anxiety in which we don’t know what is true or who to trust, and whether to act out denial, resignation, or resistance.

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  The Rise and Collapse of Fox News

  By Larry Schweikart

  A conservative American broadcast network wasn’t easy to build, and it won’t be easy to replace now that it’s been conquered by the left.

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Reviews

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  Books in Brief: January 2021

  By Derek Turner, Timothy D. Lusch

  Reviews of Steve Tibble's medieval military history, Crusader Strategy and an agricultural, ecological treatise by Chris Smaje, A Small Farm Future.

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  The French Soul, in Stone

  By Jorge González-Gallarza Hernández

  Paris was Christendom’s second capital and the seat of a powerful diocese when Bishop Maurice de Sully ordered Notre-Dame built in 1160. Agnès Poirier's book reminds us that France remains Catholic at heart, despite a thick layer of secularism.

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  The Sepulcher as Political Symbol

  By John M. DeJak

  The bones and dust of the Italian poet Dante were a political football for the warring factions of Italy long after his death, Guy Raffa writes in Dante's Bones. He who possessed Dante's remains symbolically controlled the country's future.

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  Union Without Unity

  By Betsy Clarke

  Richard Kreitner’s book Break It Up chronicles the rocky history of the American union and the many secession movements that have arisen from colonial times to current-day separatists such as the ill-fated Jonestown and Seattle's CHAZ.

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  What the Editors Are Reading: January 2021

  By William Murchison, John Greenville

  Reviews of classic books, including William McNeill's 1963 expansive history The Rise of the West and William Alexander Percy's memoir of the American South, Lanterns on the Levee.

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Remembering the Right

• Remembering the Right

  Remembering George Carey

  By Tom Pauken

  George Carey's Basic Symbols stirred up a hornet’s nest within the academic community. He argued Americans ought to cherish the principles of “good order” and “just and equal laws,” which are not necessarily synonymous with equal rights.

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Polemics & Exchanges

• Polemics & Exchanges

  Pedigree of the Far Left

  Chronicles editors and writers respond to letters from readers, in the January 2021 "Polemics & Exchanges."

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Editorials

• Editorials

  The Long March Ahead for the Real Right

  By Edward Welsch

  The election shows that the real power struggle in America is between an elite class of professionals and their dependents, who mainly occupy the urban cores in Democratic “blue states,” and working-class people, especially in the American heartland.

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  How Fox News Shapes the Right for Its Own Ends

  By Paul Gottfried

  Fox News and Rupert Murdoch have achieved two goals that have eluded other media enterprises. They have turned politics into entertainment and, in doing so, have decisively shaped the boundaries of today’s conservative establishment.

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Columns

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  Rethinking U.S. Naval Strategy

  By Srdja Trifkovic

  The risk to the U.S. from confrontation with China based on a flawed naval strategy is high, with a variety of negative outcomes up to and including nuclear war. A new U.S. strategy document details a plan to "control the seas" to put China in check.

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  The Machines of Enslavement

  By Roger D. McGrath

  The perpetuation of slavery in 19th century America is often attributed to some grand design. In fact, the historical evidence shows it was an unintended consequence of the invention of the cotton gin and the planting of a new variety of cotton.

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  A Spectrum of Violence

  By George McCartney

  Russell Crowe's Unhinged is an intimidating portrait of white, working class violence. In comparison, two other Hollywood films give us a more balanced treatment of the controlled use of force.

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  The One-Sided Sin of Racism

  By Taki Theodoracopulos

  Western societies unevenly and hypocritically enforce the rules of "systemic racism," making natural reactions against the unknown and unfamiliar taboo.

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