I’ve seen neocon hit squads in action for decades; and as a one-time victim of these nasty pieces of work, I can vouch for their malice.
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Month: December 2025
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The Supreme Court Is Poised to Strike Down Race-Based Redistricting
A clear rejection of racially based redistricting in the Calais case would be a long-overdue correction of the judicial usurpation of power within the American political system.
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The Anti-Defamation League: Thuggery Under Cover of Fighting Anti-Semitism
The attempt to rehabilitate and whitewash the ADL as a conservative ally against anti-Semitism is a farce. The ADL has been a major advocate of leftist, even far-leftist, causes for decades.
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Remembering John Crowe Ransom
The poet John Crowe Ransom led the Southern Agrarians, a political movement that challenged the free-market orthodoxy that has destroyed traditional communities across the Western world.
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Dead Boy
The little cousin is dead, by foul abstraction, A green bough from Virginia’s aged tree, And none of the county kin like the transaction, Nor some of the world of outer dark, like me. A boy not beautiful, nor good, nor clever, A black cloud full of storms too hot for keeping, A sword beneath...
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What We Are Reading: December 2025
When Patrick Buchanan’s 2000 Reform Party presidential campaign ended in failure, National Review mocked the end of a “glorious career.” Not so fast. A new phase of that career—that of a best-selling author—was just beginning. Two years later, Buchanan published his blockbuster The Death of the West, which sat atop of bestseller lists for months....
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‘Jim Snow’ Has Begun to Melt
There are increasing signs that the era of white guilt and socially approved racism against whites is at an end. The publication of Jason Riley's 'The Affirmative Action Myth' is one such sign.
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Victoria: Britain’s Last Powerful Monarch
Despite being a political novice who reigned during the decline of monarchical power, Queen Victoria was a savvy operator who preserved royal influence by pitting Britain's political factions against each other.
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Aristocracy: What Is It Good For?
'Aristocratic Voices' explores the aristocratic side of conservative thought, through a variety of unconventional figures who defended traditional social elites and criticized democratic equality.
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Books in Brief: December 2025
Short reviews of 'Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary' and 'Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection'
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Deliver Me from My WWII Veteran Father and His Traditional America
Hollywood's Springsteen biopic reveals a young Springsteen fixated on the shortcomings of his father. But it's the father and the American heartland values he represents who comes out looking better than the whiny singer.
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How Machiavelli Divided the Right
Newly discovered letters between Leo Strauss and the editors of National Review show the magazine’s staff divided over whether Machiavelli was essential to the study of politics or a source of moral corruption.
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The Zionist Politburo Cannot Purge Tucker Carlson
Neoconservatives are trying the same tactics that worked in the 1980s and '90s to try to cancel their enemies on the right. It won't work this time.
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Geezer Chat
You know things are bad for the younger generations when even old folks are talking about how hard it is for the young to buy homes and find jobs.
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Europe’s Unending Tragedy
Europe’s politicians are displaying the same old mix of audacity, fear, greed, and fanaticism that lead to the World Wars. This time, it may result in a truly final catastrophe.
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MAGA’s Transhumanist Tension
The MAGA coalition between American populists and the Silicon Valley tech-right is rife with contradictions. It's only a question of when, not if, the underlying tension will erupt.
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Farewell
In his final column, Taki Theodoracopulos reflects on 25 years of writing at Chronicles.