September 2025 Chronicles: What Happened to Reagan's Three-Legged Stool?
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Month: September 2025
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Blaming the Blamable
Con Inc. talking heads like to frame inner-city voters as victims of Democratic administrations. In reality, urban populations, especially college-educated white women, are the U.S.'s most radical voters.
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Polemics & Exchanges: September 2025
A reader recalls his friendship with Col. James Warner Bellah, and another critiques the Trump administration's deportation of unpopular (anti-Israel) opinions.
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Even After Political Wins, Right-Wing Pastors Are Still Afraid of Susan
The issue at the heart of both abortion and pornography is the bad behavior of women, and no church council hierarch, bishop, or pastor wants to talk about that—lest they incur the wrath of the Susan's.
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The Gipper’s Stool
The legs of Reagan's stool were held together by weak political glue that inevitably gave way under strong philosophical tensions.
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The Broken Promises of Free Trade
The economic, free-trade leg of Reagan's stool cut the others out and toppled the coalition. It's time we return to authentic economic conservatism.
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A Tale of Two Stools
Reagan and Trump both crafted unique political alliances of disparate groups built more on rhetoric than deeds. Many promises made, few fulfilled.
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Trump’s Re-Creation of the Old ‘New Right’
The three-legged stool of conservatism was created to stop a nationalistic Trump-like figure from filling the void left by Reagan’s exit.
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Remembering Julius Evola
Julius Evola, the enigmatic self-styled traditionalist, criticized modern materialism more incisively than any other rightist thinker of the 20th century.
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What We Are Reading: September 2025
Short reviews of 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë, and 'Voyage Around My Room' by Xavier de Maistre.
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Woke Ideology Has Always Benefited Elites, Not Victims
Musa al-Gharbi argues, in 'We Have Never Been Woke,' that super-wealthy leftists display their wokeism to signal status while quietly detesting the consequences of their own policies.
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The Feminization of American Law
Ilya Shapiro's 'Lawless' is a splendid reflection on his failure to tweet with the so-called woman's voice—an unacceptable offense in today's feminized legal academy.
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The West Turned Upside-Down
In 'How the World Made the West' Josephine Quinn, a progressive Cambridge don, argues that civilizations do not exist—and Western civilization is worst of all.
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Books in Brief: September 2025
Short reviews of "Cross Purposes' by Jonathan Rauch, and 'The United States in Crisis' by Edward J. Erler.
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The Revived Naked Gun Shoots and Scores
The new 'Naked Gun' calls upon the best aspects of '80s comedy—parody, farce, wordplay, sight gags, and fun non-sequiturs.
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Bullet Train Boondoggle
California's high-speed rail is emblematic of the Golden State's decline: A great idea, sure to attract new residents and businesses, that somehow turned into another wasteful boondoggle.
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The Hopeless Malaise of British Politics
Britain's industries are owned by foreigners and her politicians are crazy, feckless, or both. We need another Oliver Cromwell!
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Tiny Nation, Huge Success
Singapore exemplifies effective governance and shows how third-world nations can attain first-world status.
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Escaping the Shallows
AI is not only breeding intellectual laziness, it's breeding intellectual blandness. McWorld turned out to be more cognitive than corporate!
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Farewell to Not-So-Merry Old England
Britain has lost its culture, its high quality of life, and its sanity. The UK has become just another backward socialist state.