These days careful scrutiny is applied to every artistic endeavor that presumes to include references to non-Western cultures, while purposeful bastardizations apply to any depictions of Western culture.
Year: 2026
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How to Think About the Growing Resentment for Boomers
Before it gets out of hand and the generation that has outnumbered all others ceases to have that privilege in society, it’s time to think about how to deal with the consequences of Boomer rule.
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Hollywood’s Electoral Reckoning
The bill is coming due for liberal Hollywood’s struggling film industry, which blindly supported Democrats who never return the favor.
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Still Fantasizing About ‘Natural Conservatives’
After a generation of tiptoeing around minority voters because they are supposed to be “natural conservatives,” Conservative Inc. has nothing to show for their efforts but the contempt of younger voters on the right.
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Democratic Backslide in Hungary
Hungary’s new prime minister, who unseated the supposedly authoritarian Viktor Orbán, is acting in ways that are suspiciously … authoritarian.
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Why Democrats Can’t Do Better Than Kamala Harris in 2028
Harris checks the identity-politics boxes that may be as important as winning to Democratic primary voters, and the other lane is too far to the left.
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Gottfried is Right: Wokeness Is Not Communism, It’s Demonic Narcissism
To understand the powerful forces the West is confronting in its struggle against the left, we’d do well to recall Christopher Lasch’s description of the narcissistic personality that now dominates.
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Teacher’s Union Chief Taken to School Over a Shady Book Deal
The U.S. House of Representatives is investigating teacher-union leader Randi Weingarten for allegedly using union dues to cover the cost of writing a book.
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Associated Ignorance
On America’s “alleged communists,” the “Red Scare” of the 1950s, and the willful ignorance of today’s democratic socialist sympathizers.
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When the Band Doesn’t Play On
In the world of entertainment, persistence is not a virtue but a chilling reminder that your best days are behind you.
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The Woke Left Are Enemies — But They Are Not Communists
We will not be able to fight today’s woke leftists unless and until we understand the distinctions between them and the real Communists of the Cold War era.
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Blame Democrats, Not ICE, for Recent Deadly Shootings
The men killed in recent ICE cases of mistaken identity paid the ultimate price for the Democrats’ insane immigration agenda.
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No English, No Problem — Until the Crash Happens
The death of 21-year-old Tobias Forsythe, after an Uzbek national with a commercial driver’s license rear-ended him, highlights the callous neglect of states that persist in giving CDLs to foreign nationals who don’t speak English.
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Texas Cops and Their DEI Beat
Two street preachers were recently confronted by Texas police officers and warned that their speech could lead to arrests. The incident now has the attention of the feds.
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Trump’s OMB Puts Taxpayers Back in Control of Their Money
The American people deserve to know who is spending their money, where it is going, and who will be held responsible when it is wasted.
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If You’re Seeing ‘The Odyssey,’ First Read ‘An Odyssey’
Daniel Mendelsohn’s memoir relates how the ancient story of the return of an absent father melted the ice between him and his own dad.
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Prescription for a Socialist Workforce
As healthcare replaces manufacturing as the biggest source of jobs in our economy, the habits of socialism naturally follow.
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Academic Inquisition for Birthright Citizenship Dissenters
Calls to ostracize constitutional law professors who fail to persuade the Supreme Court to adopt their positions betray a lack of confidence on the part of the victors.
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The Magnificent Irrelevance of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical
While he emphasizes important insights about human nature, Pope Leo appears to be too closely tethered to outmoded, and even feudal, assumptions about technological and economic advancement.
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Betrayal in Florida
Florida’s State Board of Governors approves notorious DEI-pusher, Stuart Bell, as University of Florida President.
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The Evil Complicity of Dahlia Lithwick’s Fake Trans Outrage
Lithwick’s outrage at the Supreme Court’s ruling in the recent decision upholding a state’s right to ban transgender athletes in women’s sports calls to mind her despicable coverage of the Kavanaugh hearings.
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A Mass Excommunication and a Mass Migration Photo Op
Pope Leo’s activities over the last week show a Vatican bent on punishing traditional Catholics and pushing left-wing political causes.
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The X (Xavier) Files
Back stories about Democrat Xavier Becerra, California’s governor-in-waiting, demonstrate how California is about to become a vassal state to Mexico.
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Sony Pushes Gamers to Virtual Ownership
Sony’s message to gamers is “You’ll own nothing and be happy.”
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The Bonfire of Open Borders
Lionel Shriver’s A Better Life is a cautionary tale—if it is not too late.
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We and They
On the different reactions to the birthright citizenship case from Chronicles as opposed to neoconservatives.
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Mission Drift for Federal Finance
A program created to fund struggling communities is now openly devoted to woke and left-wing causes, in another clear case of mission creep.
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The Smithsonian’s Patriotism Problem
When you leave the teaching of history to progressives, America’s achievements always come in second place to our failures.
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America at 250: A Realist Assessment
America urgently needs an overhaul. A more authentically democratic form of governance may be salvaged if there is an open-ended moratorium on immigration and a determined, decades-long push to expel millions of aliens.
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The America That Was, The America That Is
Reflections on the America of 1976—what it had and what it lacked—in comparison with now.
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Justice Kavanaugh’s Transgender Ruling and the Misogyny of the Left
The Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. B.P.J. reflects Kavanaugh’s understanding both of sports and of the real and natural differences between men and women.
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Changing College Curricula Is a Winning Issue for Conservatives
Republican-controlled state legislatures are finally exercising their authority over the general education standards at public universities.
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Polemics & Exchanges: July-August 2026
Chronicles Editor-in-Chief Paul Gottfried responds to reader letters about the so-called Red Scare in Hollywood, and Tinseltown's current wokeness.
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Getting Rights Wrong
Conservatism does not require devotion to the chimerical notion of Lockean “natural rights.”
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Winning the AI Race
It will profit us little if we outpace the Chinese in AI innovation but lose our distinct American identity.
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The Specter of a Cyborg Theocracy
America needs to adapt to AI without enabling the worst tendencies of Silicon Valley, where a new religion of technology is being born.
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Remembering William Borah
William Borah bucked the establishment line of both political parties and prefigured the contemporary populist MAGA movement.
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What We Are Reading: July-August 2026
Short reviews of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court' by Mark Twain, and 'Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven' by Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
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Awaiting the Birth of the Silicon Antichrist
In ‘Against the Machine,’ Paul Kingsnorth explores the malign evolution of modernity amid technological change.
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A Raw Broadside Against the Hypocrisy of America’s Elite Universities
In ‘Poisoned Ivies,’ Elise Stefanik delivers a searing indictment of academia and recalls the congressional hearing that made her famous.
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Be Careful Whom You Trust
In 'Rasputin,' Antony Beevor tells the tale of the eccentric cleric who led Tsar Nicholas II’s empire to ruin.
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Books in Brief: July 2026
Short reviews of ’24 Hours at the Capitol’ by Nora Neus, and ‘Enshittification’ by Cory Doctorow.
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Space Aliens Have Consequences
Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ draws out the consequences of man learning that he is not alone in the universe.
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Hate Whitey, Win Oscar
The recent Academy Awards reveal just how anti-white Hollywood has become.
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The Right’s Boomer/Zoomer Divide
The GOP will suffer major repercussions if it continues ignoring the generational divide among its base voters.
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A Globalized World Is Controlled by Its Chokepoints
Key strategic chokepoints ensure that spheres of influence are not going away. Our recent adventure in Iran attests to this fact.
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Voting, California Style
California’s registration and voting process is dangerously susceptible to fraud and abuse.
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Citizenship Cannot Be a Souvenir
Citizenship is the legal bond between a people and their country, not a souvenir handed out to anyone fortunate enough to deliver a child within our borders.