Trump and his movement are following the path blazed by the Democrats before they became the party of woke: The old FDR playbook.
Month: September 2024
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A Deserved Death Denied
A new plea deal spares the life of three surviving masterminds of the 9/11 terrorist attack. It's indicative of our legal system’s refusal to mete out fitting punishment for even the most vile criminals.
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What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election
The editors of Chronicles have asked a collection of commentators to imagine the potential consequences of this election for our readers.
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The Countermarch
This election will determine more than control of the White House or Congress; the future of dissident resistance is at stake.
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Trumpism Has a Future Now
Donald Trump has secured a future for Trumpism by picking J. D. Vance as his running mate. Trump has ensured that Trumpism will not only be about Trump.
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Getting Better By Going Back
The next administration needs to get back to basics. We need to restore law and order, the colorblind meritocracy, and quality education.
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The Protection Election
Right wing politicos should focus on protecting alternative networks and institutions from the current, corrupt regime. As for scaling down or ousting said regime, that's not happening.
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Is a Black Female Dictator in Our Future?
A Harris presidency would mean that the Orwellian trauma will only be intensified: Doublespeak, gaslighting, the erasure of history, and big lies that amount to the reverse or inverse of the truth.
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It Won’t Be Easy to Make America Great Again
Election 2024 will not end or save humanity. What’s at stake in a presidential election is something far different from the all-or-nothing outcome that the rival campaigns envision.
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The Same Old Brilliance and Blind Spots
Thomas Sowell's latest work offers a remix of his greatest hits on race, economics, the "expert" class, but he misses things of interest to those of us on the paleo-right.
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Know Your Enemy
A Kamala Harris presidency would further solidify the loose federation of institutions that I call the group-quota regime. This regime is bent on destroying the American way of life.
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Son of Tocqueville, Socrates, and Holmes
If Alexis de Tocqueville, Socrates, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., could be combined, such a person would be like Philip Howard. His Everyday Freedom is a well-timed neo-Tocquevillian polemic.
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Remembering Klemens von Metternich
Metternich orchestrated a European balance of power, which ensured nearly a century of peace and flourishing, but he failed to deal with the forces of nationalism and liberalism.
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Nursing the Nation’s Population Replacement
America has a real nursing shortage but it’s not due to a shortage of immigrant healthcare workers or any of the other reasons routinely given by the oracles of respectable opinion.
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What We Are Reading: September 2024
Short reviews of The Military Condition by Alfred de Vigny, and Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope.
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Books in Brief: September 2024
A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China, by Dale C. Copeland (Princeton University Press; 504 pp., $31.30). Woodrow Wilson’s April 1917 plea to Congress to “make the world safe for democracy” launched America on a futile messianic crusade that plagues us even today. Nowadays, “safe” includes...
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Restless Work, Energetic Play
The family home is a last flickering outpost of liberty, though it is besieged from without by the school and the workplace and vitiated from within by mass entertainment.
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The ‘Marxism’ Narrative Has Gone Too Far
Conservatives who fixate on Communism misunderstand the dynamic driving today’s left and bringing it to power. They are defending a Maginot Line around which the left has already made an end run.
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Longlegs and the Unkillable Conservatism of Horror Films
Horror films are filled with conservative themes: Good versus evil, the importance of natural law, the reality of sin. 'Longlegs' is fine example.
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A Fighting Chance for Normalcy
In a normal country during a normal time, the Trump-Vance ticket would be cruising to victory. Alas, present-day America is far from normal.
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The Laboratory of the Apocalypse
America’s “collective West” is plagued with serious neuroses. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently provided a compelling summary.
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The Tides of Chaos
The near assassination of President Trump failed to unite Americans. Rather, America is more divided and chaotic than ever.
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In the Name of ‘Democracy’
The American Revolution made democracy the preferred government for the modern age. The only trouble with American democracy is the constant redefinition of the word.