Stanley Fish’s promotion of Judith Butler shows how well-meaning but muddled liberals end up protecting our captured institutions from democratic discourse and accountability, often in the name of “defending democracy.”
Tag: Chronicles
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The Spirited Right Must Unite Around Consent
It will not do for the right to make lazy appeals to tradition when the American tradition now includes a long history of support for the administrative state.
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We Were Right About the Managerial State
In the '80s, Chronicles emerged as the sole voice within the conservative movement questioning the ever-growing managerial state.
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What We Are Reading: January 2025
Short reviews of Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow, and The Immigration Mystique by Chilton Williamson.
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The Coming Conservative Media Collapse
Leftist corporate media is collapsing, and conservative media is not immune to suffering the same fate.
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Buckley Revisited, Again
William F. Buckley, for all his strengths, left behind a deeply flawed magazine and movement, which was very much to his demerit.
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MLK Redivivus
Martin Luther King, Jr. did not bring the races closer together; and the legacy he left behind has been one of erasing more and more of our national heritage whenever it does not fit a progressively more radical leftist agenda.
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The Pygmies Squeak … Again
Neocon intellectual midgets continue to smear Sam Francis long after his death because his writings represent an effective opposition to the ruling class.
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Polemics & Exchanges: July 2022
Letters from readers about Chronicles articles "Revolt of the Fatherless," "America's 'Female Future' Has Open Borders," and about the war in Ukraine.