by Jordan B. Peterson
Portfolio
432 pp., Hardcover $29.00
by Gad Saad
Regnery Publishing
235 pp., $28.99
Walmart is for deplorables, the left
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Month: October 2021
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Semite Sympathy
I commend Taki for his courageous article in the July Chronicles, “Nothing’s Easy About Israel.” Taki mentioned “the irony in my case is that I am a man of the right siding with a pro-leftist cause, that
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Uncle Sam’s Obituary
Prick up your ears and listen to the violins: beyond the dreamy adagios and thrilling arpeggios the fat lady has sung. On stage Uncle Sam has been laid to rest, but unlike Don Giovanni, the good uncle’s corpse has
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In Afghanistan, America Failed to Know Its Enemy and Itself
The latest episode in an ironic reversal of the roles of the foreign powers that have tried their luck in Afghanistan is unfolding before our eyes. Britain’s profitless involvement (1839-1919) is ancient history, but more recently the Soviet intervention (1979-1989)
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A Tale of Two Withdrawals
It’s difficult to characterize President Biden’s precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan as anything but a shameful debacle. It’s also difficult to determine who was responsible for the lack of a strategic withdrawal plan. Can the Secretary of Defense and Chairman of
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The Rape of the Afghan Boys
Ainuddin Khudairaham held down the trigger of his Kalashnikov and kept firing on unarmed U.S. Marines until the rifle’s magazine was empty, murdering three and wounding one. The Americans had been working out at a gym on Forward Operating Base
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Learning from Lenin
Vladimir Lenin observed in State and Revolution (1917) that “all previous revolutions perfected the state machine, whereas it must be broken, smashed.” He meant, as Marx had written in The Civil War in France (1871), that “the working class cannot
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Books in Brief: October 2021
Homo Americanus, by Zbigniew Janowski (St. Augustine’s Press; 250 pp., $24.00).
Polish American political thinker Zbigniew Janowski examines the reasons that modern American democracy has taken a totalitarian turn. Contrary to the happy talk coming from establishment conservatives about
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The Cowardice of ‘Patriotic Courage’
That Donald Trump bothered to challenge the official outcome of the November 2020 election was an annoyance to a number of congressional Republicans, representatives and senators alike. Remarks issued on Jan. 6 by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as the
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The Prairie Populist Historian
William Appleman Williams (1921-1990) was dean of the New Left School of American diplomatic history. As one of the most influential American historians in the ’60s and ’70s, he gained a national audience for his anti-war, anti-globalist, and anti-imperial views.
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Faith and Country Weighed in the Balance
by D. G. Hart
Cornell University Press
280 pp., $29.95
“What the hell is an encyclical?” is probably the most honest and articulate response ever uttered by a Catholic politician
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What We Are Reading: October 2021
Although H. L. Mencken could discern “no plot whatever” in Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt, he still praised the novel as “a social document of a high order.” The 1922 classic mordantly sketches a bygone America and the paladins who made
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Remembering John C. Calhoun
Though John C. Calhoun was a distinguished American statesman and thinker, he is little appreciated in his own country.
Calhoun rose to prominence on the eve of the War of 1812 as a “war hawk” in the House
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The Alienation of Henry Adams
by Davis S. Brown
Scribner
464 pp., $30.00
Henry Adams (1838-1918) was born in the waning years of the early Republic. As he entered into adulthood after
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Revisiting the Round Table
Directed and written by David Lowery ◆ Produced by Ley Line Entertainment ◆ Distributed by A24
In a world where chivalry is an alleged tool of the patriarchy, it seems odd that the story of the Green
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The Intersectional Constitution Comes Alive
The death of the sainted George Floyd has proven to be the ideal pretext for the left to accelerate its campaign of dismantling the markers of American historical identity.
With lavish corporate and philanthropic support, radical activists are “resetting” America.
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