America's unchecked borders are permitting the spread of tuberculosis.
Year: 2024
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The Election’s Consequences, and Our Responsibilities
Americans stood up yesterday to say they want to govern themselves. Now comes the hard work of doing it.
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The Stable Genius Providentially Triumphs
Trump’s overwhelming victory appears to confirm his genius, the wisdom of the American people, and God’s Providence for our country.
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America’s Turn to Return the Insult
Kamala Harris’s gesticulations about unity after a campaign of hate and division ring false and hollow.
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Ben Shapiro’s Sloppy Mistakes Help Harris
In failing to fact check his story on Harris’s involvement in the Kavanaugh affair, Shapiro ends up pushing the liberal narrative.
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The One Big Reason I Can’t Vote for Harris
Kamala Harris’s open contempt for Western civilization and the culture that built America is disqualifying.
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How Politics Hasn’t Changed Since Jefferson
The election of 1800 featured many of the same elements of our politics today.
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Strong and Intelligent Citizens Don’t Support Harris
Mark Cuban’s insult of female Trump supporters fell flat and highlights the weaknesses of Harris supporters.
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Kamala Harris’s Contrived Candidacy
The manufactured identity of Kamala Harris is typical of how our elites hollow out all our most valuable institutions.
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A Political Disease
Carol K. Tharp urges Sarah Wilder to
blame a secularized medical industry for inventing modern identity crises, and Ms. Tharp replies.
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Deserved Desertions
The recent mass defection from the GOP of careerists and neocons is hardly surprising or disappointing. Good riddance!
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The Democrats’ Collapse
Kamala Harris' presidential campaign flounders after a series of awful October interviews. The smart money says Trump is heading back to the Whitehouse.
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Return of the War Nerds
As the MAGA political realignment consolidates its power within the GOP, the neocons view the Democratic Party as the best vehicle for their policies.
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The Swan Song of the Arch Neocon
Condoleezza Rice presents a dangerous mixture of militarism and liberal universalism. She is the last Bush-era neocon enjoying relevancy, which makes her even more dangerous.
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Neocon Artistry and Its Discontents
The Neocons, with the political left, now comprise a uniparty elite that confuses the interests of the state with the interests of the American people.
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Remembering Thomas Molnar
At the heart of Thomas Molnar's work was the problem of authority and how it might be sustained in a world where power had been shorn of its sacral dimension.
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What We Are Reading: November 2024
Short reviews of God Against the Revolution by Gregg L. Frazier, and Bound to Violence by Yambo Ouologuem.
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John Bull’s Other Island
Jane Ohlmeyer examines how English imperialism shaped Ireland; tangled alliances and cultural identities complicate the story of the Irish nationalist movement.
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Guns of Delusion
Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware partake in academia's mass handwringing over the indigenous “right-wing terror threat”—allegedly represented by the Jan. 6 riot.
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The West’s Pivotal Defeat in Ukraine
The West’s failed Ukraine project has forced us to confront a bewildering array of what look like instances of stupidity, verging even on psychosis.
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Books in Brief: November 2024
Short reviews of Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life by Joseph Epstein, and Julia by Sandra Newman.
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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.