Short reviews of Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life by Joseph Epstein, and Julia by Sandra Newman.
Year: 2024
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In Rose City, the Dream Has Wilted
Springfield's history provides important context for Donald Trump's wild tales of pet-eating Haitian emigres.
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The Penitential History of Vichy France
Accepted scholarship on Vichy France has evolved as Anti-fascist sentiment penetrates historiography like never before. Penitential historiography has arrived.
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Woke Eugenics
Woke persons are not an unnatural aberration within the species, but rather, a natural Darwinian flush. They lay down their own genetic interests for the good of the species.
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The Anti-Racism Clown Show
Matt Walsh, famed for questioning leftists on gender, now questions leftists on race in his wildly popular documentary, "Am I a Racist?"
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What the Left Calls Voting Rights Cheapens Your Vote
The left’s incessant call to make voting easier is really about making it trivial and unimportant.
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How Would Aunt Mary Vote?
Polish Americans should detest the Democrats for wanting to destroy the good old U. S. of A. I know my Aunt Mary would.
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A Realist’s Reassessment of America’s Alliance with Israel
Washington should recognize that Israel has interests different from those of the U.S. Such an honest reckoning would help both parties define their interests and long-term strategies.
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Back When Baseball Was Great
Taki reflects on the changing face of America's pastime: baseball.
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Why Paleoconservatism Matters
A young reader explains how and why Chronicles has played such a central role in his development as a thinker and citizen.
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The Final Choice: Civilizational Arson Versus Civilizational Sanity
It is not an exaggeration to say that everything is on the line this Tuesday.
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Combating the Hidden Beltway Swamp Culture
Changing the composition of the personnel will never be enough to secure liberty. Changes to the swamp’s culture are needed.
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Trump Vindicates Meritocracy
The emotive arguments against Donald Trump from the left are proof-positive that they have nothing over him on the merits.
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A Pro-Trump Immigrant’s Story
Many legal immigrants, particularly those from Communist countries, know the stakes of this election.
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Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Comment Wipes Out Dem Claims to ‘Civility’
After a weekend of calling Trump and his supporters “fascists,” Biden’s “garbage” insult shows us the kind of civility we can expect from Democrats.
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Vindicated by Bezos Thirty Years after Leaving The Post
Jeff Bezos’s editorial calling out the bias of his own newspaper comes late in the game, but it is the paper’s last chance to redeem itself.
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Rejecting Fake Executives
What I learned in the Soviet Union about elections informs my vote as an American: We can’t allow phony executives to deceive us.
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The Man in the Arena
Daniel Penny, the Marine Corps veteran who choked a menacing fellow subway rider to death in May 2023, needs no introduction thanks to Al Sharpton’s grandstanding, a complicitous media, and a gaggle of personal injury lawyers determined to ruin his life.
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What’s the Matter With Men?
Men have come to understand that it’s rarely in their interest to intervene on behalf of justice, order, or civilization.
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How the Media Elite Silences the Majority
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann’s spiral of silence theory still explains a lot about how our media shape narratives and cows opposition.
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Kamala Harris Targets Married Women
An intrusive new campaign stratagem from team Harris pits husbands and wives against each other and patronizes women at the same time.
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Why the Right Needs Trump to Win
Right-wing critics of Trump are foolish if they think there is any future for the issues they care about without a Trump win in November.
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A Bad Moon on the Rise: Our Elections and the Aftermath
The forbearance and ingenuity of Hurricane Helene’s victims should inspire our actions in the event of election-related unrest.
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Never Mind the Cat-Eating; the Damage to Small Town America is Very Real
The media mind game, whereby they ‘debunk’ a minor part of a story so they can get you to swallow the rest of their narrative, is doing real harm to Americans.
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On Child-Free Men
There’s more going on in the rise of men forgoing marriage and fatherhood today than meets the eye.
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Donald Trump, Class Traitor Par Excellence
Donald Trump’s reputation as a champion of the American middle class is long-established and real.
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Trump’s Closing Argument Is His Strongest Yet
Trump turns the left’s self-hating narrative about American history upside down.
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American Revanchism
It is well past time for Americans on the right to stop calling their movement conservative. Before we can have anything to conserve, we must first take it back.
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Kamala’s Closing Argument: ‘I’m Obviously Not Joe Biden’
Even on the left, Kamala Harris’s most recent defenses of her campaign do not inspire confidence.
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Punk Rock Feminist Has Revelation While Stripping
A recent memoir from an ’80s punk rocker touches on themes with surprising resonance for people on the right.
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Against Self-Mutilation: Tattoos and Body Piercing
The increase in tattoos and piercings cuts across the political divide in America. But it is an indication that something is deeply wrong with our culture.
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Vibes Turn Bad for Kamala Harris
President Trump has become the more joyful campaigner in the wake of Kamala Harris’s attempts to absorb former Republicans into the Democratic base.
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Technological Tectonic Shifts
We can see parallels between our own situation and that of the American Revolutionaries and find hints for our own success in their experience. Technology can be an important key.
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Elon Musk Fights the Leviathan With Free Speech and Spaceships
Musk could have taken the easy road and gone along with the progressive agenda. Instead, he’s using his wealth and power to push back against the government.
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Whose is the Wrong Rally?
By telling people shouting “Jesus Is Lord” that they didn’t belong at her rally, Kamala Harris demonstrated the deep divide over religion between the parties.
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What’s In a Name?
Commentators and politicians on both the left and the right engage in sloppy and imprecise usage of the terms “fascist” and “Communist.”
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Reclaiming Civil Rights
Making America great again will require making civil rights honest again.
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No Time for Garbage Horror Films
Terrifier 3 is a garbage film, not because it’s in the horror genre, but because it fails to grapple with any serious theme. Fortunately, we have so many alternatives.
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The Collapse of Kamala Harris
Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for their predicament.
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Kamala Harris Bombs Fox News Interview
As Kamala Harris enters the final weeks of the race, her inability to answer basic questions about her campaign is striking.
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Is Demographics Destiny, or Destruction?
Our elite political class has manipulated illegal immigration to entrench themselves in power and disenfranchise Americans.
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Importing Ancient Hatreds Undermines Liberty
Western nations that host large and growing Muslim populations are increasingly unstable.
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Harris’s Approach: Only Blacks Get Government Help
Harris has made equity the theme of her politics for years. When she says her values haven’t changed, believe her.
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Written in Stone: Learning from the National Monument to the Forefathers
Each of us has the power to institute in our lives, our homes, and our communities the principles embedded in the granite of the National Monument to the Forefathers but it will take courage and determination.
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On Not Forgiving or Forgetting 9/11
You do not do something like this to my people and expect me ever to get over it.
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Sheldon Whitehouse’s Sauronian Return
The senator attempts to revisit and relitigate the heinous and thoroughly discredited allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and me.
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Documenting Biden
The paper chase of Biden’s stolen documents continues, but by now his profile is clear.
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Why Veterans Are Voting for Trump
Whenever a high-profile general disparages Trump, his opinion makes headlines. The sentiments of ordinary soldiers, and veterans, get much less attention.
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The Specter Haunting America is Communism
Donald Trump has warned that we are dealing with “radical left Democrats,” “Marxist lunatics,” and “communists and fascists [who] think that they can control our glorious country.” We had better take him seriously.
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Democrats Sliding Toward the Arab World
The leadership and members of the Democratic Party should stop lecturing and admonishing the Arab world about democracy and look in the mirror.