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.
Year: 2025
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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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Ten Years Later, Terror Goes Unnamed
Recalling the San Bernardino massacre that the left would rather you forget.
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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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Americans Should Reject the British Precedent on Free Speech
The UK’s Online Safety Act lured social conservatives into thinking they were protecting children when, in fact, it was designed to limit and control political speech.
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Farewell
In his final column, Taki Theodoracopulos reflects on 25 years of writing at Chronicles.
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The Social Justice Left Wants to Ruin Skateboarding
Skateboarding is a uniquely American cultural phenomenon that, like all American inventions, cuts across divisions instead of accentuating them.
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Trump’s Deportations Expose the Fragility of His Coalition
MAGA must be willing to accept that Trump loses support among many Hispanic voters when he keeps his promises and they honor tribal interests above national interests.
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December 2025 Chronicles
Chronicles Magazine: December 2025. The ADL: Thuggery Under Cover of Fighting Anti-Semitism
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America Will Not Survive Many More Minnesotas
America will either learn from the disastrous experiment with Somali corruption in Minnesota or splinter into irreconcilable shards.
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Trump’s Trade Focus Muddles His Immigration Agenda
Trump’s reputation as a dealmaker means that, for him, immigration questions are on the table in trade negotiations—even if MAGA doesn’t approve.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Exit Is a Warning to Republicans
No matter how unruly the closely divided House might be, it’s time the president tried governing with his party in Congress.
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Data Centers ‘Über Alles’
If Americans had realized how much the Trump administration would cater to Silicon Valley, the election last November might have turned out differently.
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Elon Musk’s Egalitarian Nightmare
If Boomer platitudes about equality destroyed American meritocracy, just wait till Elon Musk’s vision for a workless society has its way.
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Democrats are Becoming the Party of Treason
An incendiary video released by Democratic senators and members of Congress suggests that the party is mainstreaming treason as a political weapon.
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Pope Leo and the Illiteracy of Modern Movies
When we consider what film once was and what it can be, we realize what we are losing as we lose literacy.
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The Imperial Judiciary Strikes Back
Activist judges, who self-reverentially believe progressive technocrats and judges are democracy’s guardians, are exceeding their constitutional authority.
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Of Dating Apps and Brain Rot
Are Zoomers prisoners of dating apps or of their bad habits of mind?
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Immigration, Politicians, and the Sounds of Silence
When it comes to immigration, what a politician doesn’t say should be heard even more loudly than what he does say.
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The Right Implodes in Purges and Counter-Purges
A populist right caught between the zombie “Reaganism” of disgruntled neoconservatives and an untethered branch of white identity politics struggles to fight the left as it deals with this inner turmoil.
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Trump Already Has an Affordability Agenda: Reduce Immigration
The administration would do well to stop dismissing the cries of Americans about affordability and remind them that immigration enforcement is the surest path to making America more affordable again.
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Trump Hasn’t Lost Hispanics (Yet)
MAGA is more compelling to Hispanics than the halfhearted compromises Republicans served up before Trump. But there is no room for tone-deafness.
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The Neocon Wooing of Josh Shapiro
Understanding the motivations behind the sudden urge of neoconservatives to fluff Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
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Can White People Have a Sense of Identity?
The attempt to deny any sense of white identity is just as foolish as the hardline embrace of it as the central fact of life.
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Are UK Voters More Based Than MAGA?
Although it may be too late, in the UK even left-wing voters are coming around to the idea that the globalist vision of multiculturalism is a fraud.
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The Kids Might Be Alright
Actor Timothée Chalamet opened a virtual can of worms for praising parenthood and decrying his generation’s inclination to see it as a burden.
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Good Dog! ‘Muzzle: City of Wolves’ Delivers
Director John Stalberg delivers an entertaining film audiences—and conservatives—will love, even though critics pan it.
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Yes, Hollywood Has Been Feminized, And It’s Ruining Everything
How long will it take for Hollywood to realize what it takes to make money again?
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Hey, New York: ‘I Told You So!’
Observations on the city’s recent election from the once-maligned baseball great who long ago had New York’s number.
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Who’s Afraid of Christian Zionism?
Some thoughts on the various incarnations of ‘Christian Zionism’ and what we need to resolve the intra-familial quarrel now poisoning our politics.
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The Heritage Foundation’s Struggle Session
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts has been ensnared in a campaign of ritual humiliation and denunciation with no end in sight.
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When Zohran Met Barry
The Mamdani factor, like the Obama factor that preceded it, is a plan of managed decline that must be lived through to thoroughly despise it.
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A Grand Old Bloodbath
Denying voter sentiment on the economy is a strategy for more GOP defeats.
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From Giuliani’s Golden Age to Mamdani’s Sanctuary Gangland
Extreme sanctuary policies will turn New York and other like-minded cities into shooting galleries.
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Trump Can Do Better Than Tariff ‘Dividends’ and 50-Year Mortgages
Americans don’t want token stimulus and a half-century of debt slavery, but an end to the crushing burden of inflation and high energy prices.
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The Off-Year Elections Say Little About GOP Prospects in 2026
There are plenty of reasons not to overreact to the “disaster” of the off-term elections.
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You Can’t Purge Tucker
The establishment conservative movement will not be able to stifle Tucker Carlson in the same way that it did Sam Francis and others.
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In Defense of the So-Called ‘Woke Right’
The right must not fear being labeled “woke” by those who are not using the term in good faith and whose conservative principles amount to capitulation to the left.
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The Computing Arms Race of Cold War 2.0
As nations compete over access to advanced AI technology, they will need the cool-headed restraint that prevented the first Cold War from ending in tragedy.
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Explaining Mamdani’s Appeal to the Young, With Polling
Establishment Republicans have no effective answer to the kind of populism promoted by Zohran Mamdani.
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Answering Robert George on Conservative Principles
Dedication to abstract universals without a prudent application of concrete and changing realities is a recipe for civilizational suicide.
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I Found It: Reflections on Male Friendship
Our attempts to get to the bottom of how modernity harms young men today seem to ignore the most obvious answer: It fails to promote genuine friendship.
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Just Deserts for a Once-Coddled Neocon Elite
The confusion exhibited by onetime neocon allies of Bill Kristol’s for his support of Zohran Mamdani is an occasion for schadenfreude and reflection about the state of conservatism.
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JD Vance’s Dilemma
If he wishes to be elected in 2028, Vance must find a way to unite the now-fractured coalition that elected Trump.
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Trump’s Tariffs on Trial
Only the president can act toward the world with a singular vision when it comes to global contests.
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King, James, and Amos
When the New York Post accused Letitia James of plagiarizing Martin Luther King Jr., the paper exposed its own serial ignorance.
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YouTuber Gets Dogpiled Over Cow Dung
Tyler Oliveira’s exposure of an Indian community’s poo-chucking festival ended up exposing more about the West’s insane indoctrination in cultural relativism.
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Being Honest About a Disaster
While blacks were treated unfairly under Jim Crow, the 1960s civil rights revolution was a cataclysm that produced an anti-discrimination regime led by public administration.