James Lindsay's campaign against the "woke right" was a ploy to ensure that the right-wing reaction to wokeness didn't stray too far from whatever he considers “classical liberalism.” Most people have seen through his ruse.
Year: 2025
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Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre
The late Alasdair MacIntyre equated justice with playing one’s assigned role in one’s community. This theme echoed in his major works.
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What We Are Reading: August 2025
Short reviews of 'Standardbearers: British Roots of the New Right' from Bloomsbury Publishing, and 'You, the Jursy' by Mary Borden.
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The Modern Right’s Most Original Thinker
A new biography of Chronicles columnist Sam Francis by Joseph Scotchie is filled with quotes and stories that testify to Francis’s underappreciated brilliance and wit. Sam’s memory lives on!
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The Truth About the Kent State Shootings
Brian VanDeMark’s ‘Kent State: An American Tragedy’ combines history and advocacy. Unfortunately, the facts get in the way of the story—as is often the case with left-wing myths.
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Tapper’s Tombstone for the Legacy Media
'Original Sin' is an exercise in hypocrisy and folly on the part of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. It also raises two important questions: Can the legacy media survive? And, should it?
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Books in Brief: August 2025
Short reviews of 'Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right,' by Arlie Russell Hochschild, and 'Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen: Convert Maker,' by Cheryl C. D. Hughes.
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The Depths of Humanity
Netflix’s documentary on the OceanGate disaster shows how an over-inflated ego, if given a little power, can get people killed.
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Ernst Nolte: Germany’s Heretic Historian
The critics of German World War II historian Ernst Nolte called him a whitewasher of genocide, while his admirers considered him a courageous scholar. In truth, he was simply a man trying to follow a line of reasoning to its logical conclusion.
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The Land That Hath No Music
The patriot sings because he loves his own culture; The multiculturalist doesn't sing, he shouts, because he doesn't love, he hates.
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Crossing Borders, Crossing Centuries: The World of Leon Steinmetz
Leon Steinmetz is one of the few artists today who seems to achieve the almost unthinkable conjunction of the classical and the contemporary.
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The Shaman of the Radical Right
The British nationalist Jonathan Bowden has gained a cult-like following since his death in 2012. His image and powerful oratory continue to captivate the online right, especially in Britain.
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The Emerging Right on Parade
A former MSNBC host paraded out a selection of young people on the new right and their performances left much to be desired.
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Is Islam a Problem?
Islam has no monopoly on violence or extremism, but it has other distinct problems that should concern the West.
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Brooke Rollins, Corporate America’s Favorite Mole Within MAGA
Brooke Rollins is a libertarian wonk who managed to hitch her wagon to the Trump movement, but she does MAGA no favors.
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Sweeney Bod
The left’s unhinged and entirely predictable meltdown over the Sydney Sweeney blue jeans ad is, in fact, an expression of their dismay at realizing their days of bullying the beautiful are over.
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The Rich and the Vulgar In Venice
We've gone from applauding elegance to sneering at it. This modern mentality prefers equal misery to unequal prosperity.
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How Progressive Researchers Are Trying to Turn Men Into Victims of Sexual Violence
A new “made to penetrate” category of rape attempts to expand the definition of sexual violence and blur the distinction between male and female sexuality.
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When Architecture Kills
When architecture is divorced from the collective memory of history and tradition, it ceases to inspire. Often, it even ceases to be functional.
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Think the George Floyd Riots Were Bad? What If Obama Gets Indicted?
If Obama is charged, the 2020 “Summer of Love” riots are going to look like a picnic.
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Winning, Even When It Doesn’t Feel Like It
Perpetual skeptics would do well to consider how far the right has come in the last five years, even as they count the battles left to fight.
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How Bob Woodward Could Have Saved the ‘Washington Post’ from Russiagate Humiliation
Woodward identified the lack of curiosity at the Post that allowed the paper, and all of legacy media, to take the Russiagate bait that is now choking them.
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The Real January 6 Wasn’t at the Capitol – It Was at Trump Tower
The scandalous meeting on January 6, 2017 between the incoming president and James Comey was the beginning of an attempted coup.
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Israel’s Right to Exist Does Not Negate Palestinian Territorial Claims
Chronicles Editor-in-Chief Paul Gottfried responds to a critic who misrepresents and distorts his position on the Jewish state and what ought to be America’s posture toward it.
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The Obama Dossier
Recalling the back story to the Russia hoax that fundamentally transformed America.
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Trump’s Trade Lesson for Economists (and the World)
Trump and America are winning this trade war and demonstrating the shortcomings of the economists in the Ivory Tower.
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A Young Filmmaker’s Take on the Tales of Youth
Paul Roland’s inspiration in the legendary filmmaker, John Hughes, offers some hope that Hollywood can once again tell the poignant stories of American teenagers.
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House of Edification or House of Horrors?
If art reflects the society that produces it, postmodern art is a reflection of an age without boundaries, meaning, or hope.
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The Murdoch Media’s New York Mayoral Coverage Is All About Israel
Rather than viewing the New York mayoral race as a battle between leftist factions, Fox News and the New York Post have jumped into the fray on behalf of the pro-Israel left.
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Tax Remittances to Stop the Border Cash Leak
Enforcing immigration law with ICE raids is an important, but difficult, way to secure the border. Taxing remittances is much easier and would also be very effective.
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In Defeat, Leftists Attempt to Repair Families and Friendships Broken by Politics
After a decade of politicizing everything, leftists now feel compelled to make nice with friends and family members they snubbed.
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Grading the Second Trump Presidency, Six Months In
Trump’s second administration is off to a strong, and fast, start because Trump has learned to seize the day.
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When the Bill for Bad Comedy Comes Due
Stephen Colbert chased applause instead of laughter. He catered to his audience’s prejudices instead of challenging them. It was boring, and thankfully he’s out of a job.
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Love Gov Threatens Florida Move
The irony of Andrew Cuomo’s threatened move to Florida, should he lose the New York mayoral race this fall, is not lost on Florida Republicans.
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Dems Rail Against Colbert’s Cancellation—Here’s Why
Democrats rush to Stephen Colbert’s defense because they know that Colbert, and all of the dying late-night television phenomenon, run cover for and serve the interests of Democrats.
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MAGA’s Epstein Crisis
Trump's abrupt dismissal of the Jeffrey Epstein case shocked supporters, who had backed him because they thought he would hold powerful people accountable.
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Defining Anti-Semitism
Simplistic definitions and easy assumptions about anti-Semitism shut down the conversations that would help to overcome it.
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The Left’s Concert of Violence
When America rejected the left, they viewed it not as a rejection of their policies, but as a rejection of them as people. Many leftists feel justified in lashing out.
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Brett Cooper and Conservatism’s Creative Bankruptcy
Will the right ever break free from its parasitic relationship with Hollywood, and create real art instead of complaining about it?
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Mamdani, Man From Nowhere
A rootless, third-world would-be cosmopolitan wants to impart his special blend of regressive, anti-Western grievance on America. We should stop inviting it.
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Whose Politics Canceled Stephen Colbert?
Donald Trump didn’t get Stephen Colbert canceled; everything Democrats like about him did.
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Keep Maverick in the Cockpit
As warfare is increasingly driven by advancements in drone technology and artificial intelligence, the loss of the human element will be catastrophic for civilian populations.
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ADL’s Thought Police Helped Create the Current Climate of Anti-Semitism
How the Anti-Defamation League now embraces the ideology that they were originally established to combat.
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Muhammad Ali and a Half-Century of Fooling Ourselves
The full legacy of Muhammad Ali, including his period of venomous anti-white bigotry, needs to be remembered and understood.
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Building the 21st-Century American Athlete
American families need to reclaim the origins of athletics as way to impart and inspire excellence and virtue.
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Mamdani Shows Democrats Can’t Quit Obamaism
Obamaism is sinking the Democratic Party but they can’t quit it.
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MAGA Is Getting the Ukraine Aid It Voted For
Trump has always been more hawkish than his base on aid for Ukraine.
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Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt Takes the Left to Court
In his new book, Senator Eric Schmitt shows that with determination and intelligent legal arguments, the right can mount an effective legal offense against the left.
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The Judicial Tyranny of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
The Constitution can, and should, be interpreted to mean whatever Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson wants it to mean. Just ask her.
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Bastille Day Should be a Reminder to Americans About the Dangers of Debt Crisis
Our administrative elite, echoing 1780s France, is placing its own self-interest above the country’s financial health. Will we face a similar terror?