The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
by Charles Blow
Harper Collins
256 pp., $26.99
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
Random House
496 pp., $32.00
The verbal tics of the orthodox Marxist vocabulary in mid-20th
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Month: July 2021
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By Other Means
Mr. Gonzalez did a fine job in your June issue succinctly describing the garrot being slowly twisted around the throat of what remains of traditional America (“American Guerrilleros”).
It is clear the deck is overwhelmingly stacked against those
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Equity or Bust
Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 11246 on Sept. 24, 1965, directing federal agencies and contractors to not only avoid discrimination but to also “take affirmative action to ensure … equal employment opportunity based on race.” Despite the promises of
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Nothing’s Easy About Israel
Such was my pro-Israel ardor back in 1967, I actually put my name down as a volunteer soldier in the Six-Day War. I was living in Paris, and I was asked by the recruiter if I were Jewish. When I
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What We Are Reading: July 2021
This extraordinary tome proposes a cure for our cultural illness: the resurgence of the muscular Christianity that once permeated higher education. The success of Fulton Brown’s project is far from assured, but in this essay collection she embraces the task
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A Tale of Two Europes
April 18 marked the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Paris, which established the European Coal and Steel Community. The leaders of France, West Germany, Italy, and the three Benelux countries thus laid the foundation for
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The Misnomer of Marxism
American institutions have been allegedly occupied by Marxists who are waging a war against the “American Revolution,” according to conservative commentator Mark Levin. Demonstrating how this alleged occupation occurred is at the core of Levin’s American Marxism, a work
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Why Freedom Persists in Poland and Withers in Canada
Why are Poles so conservative? And why are Western countries like the United States, and my country of Canada, so liberal?
Although Poland claims to be Western and democratic, its government and culture are markedly different from those of Western
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Books in Brief: July 2021
Who Is My Neighbor? An Anthology in Natural Relations, by Thomas Achord and Darrell Dow (584 pp., $24.99). The headmaster of a classical Christian school has teamed up with a statistician to collect and sort thousands of quotations pertaining
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Remembering Andrew Nelson Lytle: Agrarian Prophet
In the early 1990s it was my good fortune to make a pilgrimage to meet Andrew Lytle on the occasion of the publication of his last book, Kristin (1992). A book-signing had been arranged by the University of the South
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American Psychiatry Has a Lot to Apologize for (but not Racism)
It seems like every other major American institution is apologizing for racism these days, so why not the American Psychiatric Association (APA)?
Back in January, the APA issued an apology for its “ingrained” racism towards black and indigenous people of
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Seeing Through a Glass Darkly
The Woman in the Window
Directed by Joe Wright ◆ Written by Tracy Letts from the novel by A. J. Finn ◆ Produced by 20th Century Studios ◆ Distributed by Netflix
Things Heard & Seen
Directed and written by Shari
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A Matter of Trust
“I trust the science,” is a venerable Democratic Party slogan that has been repeated for many years by smug, virtue-signaling liberal sophisticates. “Trusting the science” is shorthand for holding an uncritical belief in all the stances of the left that
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Manifesto of a Paleo Fellow Traveller
The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return
by Michael Anton
Regnery Publishing
500 pp., $32.99
Michael Anton attracted widespread public notice in Sept. 2016 as the author of a pseudonymous article in the Claremont Review called “The
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Faulknerian Presentism
The Life of William Faulkner. Volume 1: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897–1934
512 pp., $34.95
The Life of William Faulkner. Volume 2: This Alarming Paradox, 1935–1962
656 pp., $34.95
by Carl Rollyson
University of Virginia Press
Readers might be
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Stop Playing the Left’s Game
When Chronicles asked me to provide a refutation of Donald Trump’s 1776 Commission report (“Rejecting the ‘Proposition Nation,’” April/May 2021), I knew it would be controversial. I was right. Michael Anton wrote a lengthy rebuttal at American Greatness
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