An idea from Horace Greeley and the post-Civil War burst of national imagination has come to the fore again.
Year: 2024
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Conservatives Can Curate Art for Themselves
As the right has discovered, the way around legacy media is to become the media. It can also become the culture’s art curators.
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Identity Politics, Not Biden, Cost Democrats the Election
Democrats are the victims of their party’s ideology.
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Daniel Penny is Guilty … of Being White
Daniel Penny is up against a system that sees capable white men as enemies.
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Striking Back at the White-Coat Empire
Trump’s appointment of Jay Bhattacharya to the NIH will give Elon Musk and RFK Jr. a powerful ally in the battle against white-coat supremacy.
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Intersectional Technocracy: The New Matrix
Many political theorists have declared the battle over ideologies outmoded and supplanted by a reign of experts or technocrats, but ideology has made a comeback.
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Democracy and the Manipulation of Public Opinion
Walter Lippmann and John Dewey wrestled over the competence of the common citizen and the very notion of public opinion.
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Making a Hero Out of a Mass Murderer
The New York City council honors the murderous Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Murderers can be honored, in some places, if their victims are white.
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Remembering Pinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Corrêa de Oliveira nursed a desire to restore the traditional Christian principles that have been the basis for the political and social order known as Christendom.
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What We Are Reading: December 2024
Short reviews of Napoleon's Pyramids by William Dietrich, and The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry.
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Judith Butler, Gender Sophist
Judith Butler has made out of her gibberish a lifelong, well-paid gig, and she endeavors to advance her own radical worldview through her sophistical skills.
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The Betty Friedan Mystique
Rachel Shteir considers Betty Friedan to be a hero, but it’s not clear exactly what was so heroic or great about the feminist icon.
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Edith Hamilton and the Resurgence of American Education
Victoria Houseman does a thorough job in telling the story of Edith Hamilton, a hero of the Old Right and the classical education revival in the U. S.
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The Crime of Noticing
Compared to most writers, both now and in the past, Steve Sailer speaks to the moment and has a firm grasp on what is happening around the world.
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Books in Brief: December 2024
Short reviews of Go Woke, Go Broke by Charles Gasparino, and The Indispensable Right by Jonathan Turley.
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The Domestic Cruelty of Desire
Last Summer tells the story of Anne, a lawyer and spouse with a seemingly idyllic life, who becomes a predator of sexual domesticity when a long-lost family member resurfaces.
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The Next Pope, as Seen Through a Left-Wing Fever Dream
Conclave is a blatant and unabashed piece of artistic manipulation that laughably portrays the Catholic Church from the twisted perspective of the progressive left.
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Wild Bill Wellman’s Hundred Lives
World-war-I flying ace Bill "Wild Bill" Wellman lived a daring, eventful life that contributed to successful film career. Such heroic figures were not uncommon in old Hollywood.
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A Global Agenda for Trump 2.0
It is strange that pundits routinely accuse Trump of being unpredictable on foreign affairs. In fact, during this year’s campaign, he has made a series of statements related to the pressing global issues which are fairly clear and reasonable.
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American Men and the Emerging Culture Shift
This year signaled a rightward cultural shift for males and an opportunity for males to shape American culture.
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The Insurmountable Evil of the American Media
The media is composed of hideous people who, in their dedication to destroying Trump, have lost all credibility.
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It’s a Wonderful Magazine
At this time of the year, Chronicles readers should ask themselves what the world would look like if our magazine did not exist.
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Religious Liberty or Subordination to the State
A new report presents the stark reality in Xi Jinping’s Communist China as it relates to faith and religious freedom—but can the “free world” still present the alternative?
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No Quarter for Crybaby Diplomats
The incoming Trump administration should fire State Department employees who are too emotionally fragile to defend America.
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Disrupting the Health Agencies Will Save American Lives
Medicine needs to be practiced with unflinching demand for evidence, not politics.
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Spite Not Your Neighbor Over Politics
The inclination to view friends, family, and neighbors as evil when they disagree with us politically is usually a way to scapegoat our own shortcomings.
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Profanity and Obscenity Diminish Dignity
Our casual disregard for propriety in language is costing us more than we imagine.
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Logos in the Land: “Can We Talk?”
Donald Trump’s unusual verbal skill, accurately labeled “the weave” during the campaign, gives Americans hope of making reasoned political speech great again.
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Washington Post Shake Up Should Shake Out Ruth Marcus
The Post’s op-ed page deputy editor is a dishonest hack and if Jeff Bezos wants to save his paper, she should go.
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Trump Draws the Map to 2028
Donald Trump destroyed the Democrats’ blue wall and, with it, their hopes for 2028.
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Weaponized Sex Charges Target Trump Picks
Sexual assault allegations against political figures usually have an ulterior motive: to punish those who challenge the status quo.
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Time for Feminism to Take Inventory of its Failing Prescriptions
Feminist lifestyle prescriptions aren’t resulting in feminism sending America its best.
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How to Curb the Deep State at the State Department
By reinforcing civilian control of the department and implementing other common-sense reforms, some sanity to our foreign affairs may be restored.
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The Cowardice of Modern Journalism
More evidence of the diminished standards and dishonorable behavior of America’s fourth estate.
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What Was the Matt Gaetz Attorney General Pick Really About?
Has the maestro of Mar-a-Lago outwitted his political foes yet again?
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Childless Cat Ladies for Law and Order
The conditions that led one woman to renounce her long record of voting for Democrats and supporting the left.
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Trump: From ‘Fascist’ to ‘Let’s Do Lunch’
Declining ratings explain Joe and Mika’s lunch with the man they called a “fascist.”
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Treating the News Blues: Some Medicine for Our Corporate Media
If corporate media wants to earn the trust of Americans again, it should reject big-name but opinionated personnel and instead pursue real stories.
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Trump’s Red Wave Signals the End of Woke DAs
Down-ballot races, even in solid blue places like Los Angeles, suggest that the era of the Soros-backed DAs may be sunsetting.
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Kamala’s Defeat Ushers in New, Law-and-Order Future for Cities
The 2024 election shows there could be an opportunity to rid Manhattan of its out-of-control District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
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The CIA Deception Machine Is Ready for Reactivation
What Trump’s nominees and the American people, are up against.
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Why Democrats Are Losing Tomorrow’s Elections Today
Democratic governors in deep blue states will own the largest share of the blame in the coming electoral reckoning.
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Confirm Matt Gaetz
It’s time for Republicans and conservatives to end the one-sided culture of shame and get serious about politics.
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How Trump Can Save the American Economy
If Americans can hold fast through temporary hardship, there is promise for a more prosperous future.
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Political Hysteria
Disappointed and angry leftists on social media don’t know what real political fear is.
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Remedies for Post-Election Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth
When politics becomes an idol, our disappointment can grind us into dust when it fails us. Here are some suggestions for the afflicted.
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Donald Trump Is Set to Make MAGA America’s Defining Political Movement
The generational shift of MAGA promises great things for America.
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California’s Native Daughter Underwhelms
November 5 was not just a rejection of Kamala Harris’s political promotion. It was also a condemnation of her political past.
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The End of the American Stasi
The days of feeling cowed by a humorless and censorious elite class of journalists and pundits are over.