June/July 2025 Chronicles Magazine: What Trump Means for Europe
Month: May 2025
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Polemics & Exchanges: May 2025
A reader issues a call for conservative action: conservative activism, conservative lawfare, conservatives taking to the streets!
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Why the Right Likes Russia
A growing faction of the American right considers Vladimir Putin the last defender of Christendom. This colors how they view the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Tariffs Are a Bitter, But Necessary, Pill to Swallow
The Trump tariffs aim to take America off the addictive, but toxic, globalized economic system that enriches Wall Street while decimating Main Street.
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Free Trade Has Never Been a Right-Wing Principle
Being right-wing doesn't require support for unbridled free-trade, much less does it require support for so-called "free-trade agreements."
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The Ukraine War and the End of American Superpower
The Ukraine War is a symptom of the American empire’s decline. It is time for America to untangle herself from the region and focus on her vital interests.
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Remembering George S. Schuyler
George S. Schuyler adeptly caricatured black racial romanticists and Marxists with wit equal to his mentor, H. L. Mencken.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Enduring Legacy of a 20th-Century Prophet
Joseph Pearce interviews Ignat Solzhenitsyn, son of famed Russian dissident Aleksandr, about a newly published volume of his father's speeches, "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose."
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What the Editors Are Reading: May 2025
Short reviews of 'Suicide of a Superpower' by Patrick J. Buchanan, and 'The Genius of Christianity' by Viscount De Chateaubriand
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Solzhenitsyn in Exile: A Giant Among Pigmies
"We Have Ceased to See the Purpose" contains Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most important speeches given during his 20 year exile in the West.
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The Sad and Beautiful Death of the Modern Man of the West
Michel Houellebecq, in his final novel, grapples with the struggle to find meaning in the meaningless contemporary West.
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How Wealth Co-opted Conservative Politics
David Gibbs’ "Revolt of the Rich" explains how the ultrawealthy seized control of the conservative movement and destroyed the American Dream.
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Books in Brief: May 2025
Short reviews of "A Certain Idea of America" by Peggy Noonan and "Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America" by Paola Ramos.
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A Kind and Compassionate Man
Joshua Doggrell tells a brief, but compelling, tale of bourgeois white guilt and its disastrous consequences.
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Ike and the “Military Industrial Complex”
The expert class associates Dwight Eisenhower with goofing and golfing, and his presidency with stagnation, but the experts are wrong. Ike was a great statesman.
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An Elusive Leopard
Netflix's reinvention of Prince Lampedusa’s “The Leopard” turns old Sicily into a cruel hellscape and, thereby, loses the thing that made the original novel great: A nostalgia for the traditional Sicilian society that Italian nationalism crushed.
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You Say You Want a Revolution
Even peaceful revolutions impose real harms on real people, and Trump and Vance would do well to acknowledge those harms and ameliorate them.
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Demography’s Great Turn
The demographic prophets of doom warned of rapid population growth just a few decades ago but now bemoan population decline.
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Parenting’s Generational Divide
Mothers, and parents in general, face unique challenges today that previous generations did not, and they have less support in facing them. It takes a toll.
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Former People Don’t Count
The civilized world seems content to stand by and do nothing as Palestinians are being killed or starved to death by Israel. They are effectively what the Soviets used to call "former people."