April 2025 Chronicles: America Needs an Immigration Moratorium
The Democrats Will Try to Pivot on Immigration
The Democratic Party is likely to try to adopt a more restrictive position on immigration to steal some of the GOP’s recent momentum, Patrick Casey writes. Chronicles Editor Paul Gottfried responds.
Polemics & Exchanges: April 2025
Chronicles readers inquire about boomers and guns!
America Needs an Immigration Moratorium
It is not enough to merely undo the damage of the Biden administration by deporting all illegal immigrants. There must be a moratorium on all immigration into the United States from culturally incompatible Third World countries.
Exposing the NGO Immigration Grift
NGOs and other charitable organizations both fund and profit greatly from the immigration racket, to the detriment of many Americans.
Remembering Westbrook Pegler
Westbrook Pegler attacked the New Deal, big labor, and the Civil Rights movement. His brand of right-wing populism remains unique and worth remembering.
What We Are Reading: April 2025
Short reviews of 'The American Cinema' by Andrew Sarris, and 'Ressentiment' by Max Scheler.
The Slaves of Steve Jobs’ Revolution
'The Extinction of Experience' indicts the wizards behind the technological curtain for bringing out the worst in human nature.
Citing Scripture for a Progressive Purpose
'The Progressives’ Bible' shows how leftists over the ages—from abolitionists to abortionists—have distorted scripture to build a rhetorical foundation for their political causes and movements.
The Devil in the Murderous Details
'The Devil and Communist China,' outlines the truth about the Chinese regime and deserves great attention not merely from a historical point of view but also from a religious one.
Books in Brief: April 2025
Short reviews of 'The War Against the Past' by Frank Furedi and 'The Total State' by Auron MacIntyre.
A Quarter Century After ‘The Abolition of Britain’
The problems that Peter Hitchens discussed 25 years ago in 'The Abolition of Britain' have only worsened. The book brilliantly sets the stage for Britain's current malaise.
Shrinks Psychoanalyze Trump From Afar, in an Attempt to get MAGA Committed
When leftists couldn't beat Trump, they turned to psychiatrists. Cancellation by diagnosis is an old, and effective, left-wing tactic—and cleaner than firing squads!
Signs of Life
'His Three Daughters' explores the tension between three sisters, who have little in common aside from family, reunited by the pending death of their father.
Captain Anti-America
In 'Captain America: Brave New World' anti-Trump conspiracy theory meets superhero mythology. The leftists finally came for Captain America!
Gone with the Wind
Generations of Hollywood history and local memories went up in flames during the recent Palisades fire.
Trump Tackles Toponymy
President Trump's renaming of The Gulf of America, and reinstatement of Mount McKinley, remind us how toponymy can carry political voltage.
The Ukraine Crisis and Political Kayfabe
The Trump-Zelensky showdown in the Oval Office resembles the theatrics of professional wrestling. The schtick is known as "kayfabe" to those in the biz.
The New Social Revolution
MAGA supporters insist the managers are on their way out the door, but a new technocratic elite could be rising.
Beware The Times Bearing Lies
The ancient Greek bards may have fudged a bit while honoring their own, but today's experts shamelessly change historical facts to cast doubt about their own country—far more dishonorable.