The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History
by David North and Thomas Mackaman
Mehring Books Inc.
378 pp., $24.95
1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project
by Peter W. Wood
Encounter Books
272 pp.,
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To the rector of Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland:
Dear Sir, it has been brought to my attention that your university and office have seen fit to reprimand Professor Ryszard Legutko for not supporting your efforts to introduce feminist ideology
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Two years ago, Matthew Rose wrote a lengthy article about Sam Francis in First Things (“The Outsider,” October 2019) that I responded to in these pages (“A Giant Beset by Pygmies,” December 2019 Chronicles). I
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Back in the days when skin tone was not a criterion for worthy art, I used to attend the opera quite regularly, especially when works from Mozart, Verdi, or Puccini were on offer. I mention skin tone because a black
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The tectonic change in the Indo-Pacific region is the most important geopolitical event of 2021. The countries along its shores account for roughly two-thirds of the world’s population. They produce the largest share of global gross domestic product, possess the
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In the 1950s grammar schools of the Golden State we kids substituted “Oh, California!” for Stephen Foster’s “Oh, Susanna!” The tune was the same, but the lyrics came from the pen of John Nichols just before he climbed
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Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II
by Sean McMeekin
Basic Books
864 pp., $40.00
This massive tome is more than a new history of World War II. It is above all a depressing confirmation that the crimes
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Open season has been declared on the late and longtime Chronicles columnist Samuel Francis. Evidence for this can be found in, among other places, a diatribe recently published by political journalist Michael Lind in Tablet, “The Importance of
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Conservatism has not conserved anything. This claim may appear ridiculous to those plagued by unwavering faith in the Republican Party and the conservative movement. After all, is it not conservatism that is holding the line against the left’s tyrannical agenda?
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SIN (IL PECCATO)
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky ◆ Written by Andrei Konchalovsky and Elena Kiseleva ◆ Produced by Alisher Usmanov ◆ Distributed by Corinth Films
Despite its potentially salacious title, Sin (Il peccato) is thankfully not another sordid tale about
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Klara and the Sun: A Novel, by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf; 320 pp., $28.00). A conservative disposition imposes costs but limits downside surprises. If you always expect rain, you have to lug your umbrella around wherever you go. But you
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The recent passage of the Texas Heartbeat Act, signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott on May 19, has resulted in feverish alarums across the land. These came after the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to block the law in
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The Man Who Would Be King
Written and Directed by John Huston ◆ Produced by John Foreman ◆ Distributed by Columbia Pictures
With Afghanistan on the mind, as President Biden tries to benightedly disengage from America’s longest war, it seems
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Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the
Second World War, 1938–1941
by Alan Allport
Knopf
608 pp., $35.00
“The Second World War,” says Britain at Bay’s flyleaf, “was the defining experience of modern British history. It
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The plot of the Woman of the Inner Sea may strike one as interesting for a children’s book: An Australian woman leaves Sydney incognito for the interior and makes friends with a kangaroo and an emu. But Thomas Keneally’s novel
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I was chairman of the Annual Confederate Flag Day at the North Carolina State Capitol in March of 2019 when our commemoration was besieged by several hundred screaming, raging demonstrators—Antifa-types and others. It took a mammoth police escort for us
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