President Trump is right. Stripping tax-exempt status is another way to make universities that don’t want to comply with federal law pay for their violations.
Year: 2025
Harvard at the Crossroads
As Harvard rejects the Trump administration’s conditions for maintaining its federal funding, will it—like Hillsdale College—learn to live without it?
JD & JC
The vice president’s now famous remarks in Europe remind us that our civilization depends upon our commitment to the Lord and savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
End U.S. Taxpayer Support for the Higher Education Gravy Train
There is no good reason for hardworking Americans to subsidize institutions that instruct their students to hate them.
Creatively Disabled Authors and the AI Crutch
The decision of the organizers behind National Novel Writing Month to embrace AI has called down a shower of deserved derision.
Shazam! Surprise and Laughter in the Age of Trump
Americans may be excused for having a laugh at today’s headlines, after the last four years of the humorless and oppressive Biden administration.
TDS: See Only Evil, Hear Only Evil, Speak Only Evil
There is a pathological unwillingness to give Trump any credit for his accomplishments, even when the evidence is plain.
Jazz Musicians Should Welcome Trump to the Unwoke Kennedy Center
The freedom embodied in the American jazz tradition is something utterly incompatible with the close-minded diktats of the woke religion.
The Goal of School is Learning, Not Time Spent
Remote work shows us why American schools need to abandon the antiquated notion that time spent equals learning accomplished.
Tariffs Are Essential to a Free People
Tariffs are about much more than just securing the interests of the working class. They’re essential to national security and defense.
Taking on the Globalization Gods Requires Courage
Trump has always been clear that the path to sovereignty, self-reliance, and national purpose would require some amount of sacrifice and uncertainty.
Is Luigi Mangione the Left’s Donald Trump?
The left increasingly channels its emotions away from politics and into street actions and violent fantasies.
The Gender Pay Gap Isn’t Real—But the Social Fallout Is
There has never been a better time to be a woman in Australia, America, Britain, or most parts of Europe, but women have never felt worse about it.
Questions Con Carney
Random queries for the new Prime Minister Canadians have yet to elect.
Shed No Tears for Mahmoud Khalil
For people like Mahmoud Khalil, animosity for Israel and Jews is the same thing as hatred for the West. They make no distinctions, and neither should we.
Voodoo Trumponomics
Ironically, by following the world instead of leading it, America may replace the prevailing free trade orthodoxy and spur an industrial renaissance.
Trump’s Life’s Work Culminates in Confronting Communist China
Trump has not just been outspoken on the issue of trade with China—he has been proven correct.
Tall Tales and the End of #MeToo
Trauma Plot, a new book by transgender writer Jamie Hood, laments the end of #MeToo but appears to have a real problem with the truth.
The Left Discovers Milton Friedman
Leftists now quoting Friedman on tariffs should remember the Nobel Prize-winning economist had opinions about other things.
Trump Wins Big on Tariffs
Trump continues to score big wins for America and confound his critics on the many uses of tariffs in negotiations with foreign powers.
On Democratic Party Violence
The Democratic Party of this decade has been as steeped in violent action as the Nazis and Communists were during the waning days of the Weimar Republic.
How Lawmen Learned to Love 287(g)
Trump’s threat of withholding federal funding to communities with anti-borders policies is making law enforcement in blue states come to love this ICE program.
A ‘Controlled Neurosis:’ Trump’s Theory of Communication
Trump calls his brand of persuasion “dealmaking” and 10 years since his transformation into a political force, his critics still fail to understand it.
Raising Children in a Society That Dislikes Them
We have created a society that views children as an inconvenience to adults and scorns parents trying to raise them in their midst.
Tariffs Are a Reason to Cut Taxes and Red Tape
Orthodox free marketers and national conservatives should agree that rolling back taxes and regulations is essential to making American business great again.
Jonathan Capehart’s WaPo Hissy Fit
The former editorial board member’s memoir is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with journalism today.
Harvard: Made in America or Made in China?
It is well past time for the U.S. to put an end to the unfettered foreign financing of American universities.
The Smithsonian Is Even Worse Than You Think
The parade of outrageous and divisive racialist fantasies at America’s museum is ongoing despite an executive order that it should end.
Pets of the English Department Activated to Stem the Deep Decline in English Majors
Dogs and cats step in where professors fear to tread.
The Dismal Science and the Trumpian Tariff Hullabaloo
Americans don’t elect economists to pursue the most “efficient” policies but leaders to pursue the common good.
Union With Canada Is No More Appealing Today Than It Was Yesterday
The song and dance of American union with Canada is an old story, but also one that always arrives at the same answer: No thanks!
Let It Burn: CIA Revelations Unclassified
Former CIA Chief James Angleton was right: The best prescription for the agency is to let it burn, “let it all come out and let people take the consequences.”
The Party of Hate
Democrats lead with a message of hate because their policies do not resonate or inspire.
Europe’s Ruling Class Strikes Again
The lawfare deployed against France’s Marine Le Pen is a shot across the bow of Europe’s populist right and all who oppose Europe’s ruling class.
Columbia’s Clown Show Continues
The high-stakes drama and academic charade at this supposedly venerated institution of higher education continues apace—threatening funding, public respect, and sanity.
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
The conservative columnist Westbrook Pegler attacked the New Deal, big labor, and the civil rights movement. Though largely forgotten today, he set the standard for American right-wing commentary and still exerts influence over unwitting imitators.
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!

















































