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Month: August 2025
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The Woke Right and Déjà Vu All Over Again
Conservatism Inc. pins the "woke right" label on anyone who confronts the left rather than cowering before it.
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Why the Woke Right Crusade Failed
James Lindsay's campaign against the "woke right" was a ploy to ensure that the right-wing reaction to wokeness didn't stray too far from whatever he considers “classical liberalism.” Most people have seen through his ruse.
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Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre
The late Alasdair MacIntyre equated justice with playing one’s assigned role in one’s community. This theme echoed in his major works.
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What We Are Reading: August 2025
Short reviews of 'Standardbearers: British Roots of the New Right' from Bloomsbury Publishing, and 'You, the Jursy' by Mary Borden.
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The Modern Right’s Most Original Thinker
A new biography of Chronicles columnist Sam Francis by Joseph Scotchie is filled with quotes and stories that testify to Francis’s underappreciated brilliance and wit. Sam’s memory lives on!
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The Truth About the Kent State Shootings
Brian VanDeMark’s ‘Kent State: An American Tragedy’ combines history and advocacy. Unfortunately, the facts get in the way of the story—as is often the case with left-wing myths.
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Tapper’s Tombstone for the Legacy Media
'Original Sin' is an exercise in hypocrisy and folly on the part of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. It also raises two important questions: Can the legacy media survive? And, should it?
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Books in Brief: August 2025
Short reviews of 'Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right,' by Arlie Russell Hochschild, and 'Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen: Convert Maker,' by Cheryl C. D. Hughes.
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The Depths of Humanity
Netflix’s documentary on the OceanGate disaster shows how an over-inflated ego, if given a little power, can get people killed.
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Ernst Nolte: Germany’s Heretic Historian
The critics of German World War II historian Ernst Nolte called him a whitewasher of genocide, while his admirers considered him a courageous scholar. In truth, he was simply a man trying to follow a line of reasoning to its logical conclusion.
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The Land That Hath No Music
The patriot sings because he loves his own culture; The multiculturalist doesn't sing, he shouts, because he doesn't love, he hates.
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Crossing Borders, Crossing Centuries: The World of Leon Steinmetz
Leon Steinmetz is one of the few artists today who seems to achieve the almost unthinkable conjunction of the classical and the contemporary.
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The Shaman of the Radical Right
The British nationalist Jonathan Bowden has gained a cult-like following since his death in 2012. His image and powerful oratory continue to captivate the online right, especially in Britain.
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Is Islam a Problem?
Islam has no monopoly on violence or extremism, but it has other distinct problems that should concern the West.
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Brooke Rollins, Corporate America’s Favorite Mole Within MAGA
Brooke Rollins is a libertarian wonk who managed to hitch her wagon to the Trump movement, but she does MAGA no favors.
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The Rich and the Vulgar In Venice
We've gone from applauding elegance to sneering at it. This modern mentality prefers equal misery to unequal prosperity.