As the right has fractured into extremes over Israel and Jewish influence, Chronicles remains focused on the critical battleground and the chief opponent: immigration and the left.
Issue
Month: February 2026
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Virginia Democrats Are Not Playing Beanbag
“Politics ain’t beanbag,” or so the saying goes. These days, the only people who seem to understand that are Trump … and the Democrats.
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Heritage Is Better-Off With Kevin Roberts—and Without the Malcontents
Kevin Roberts fights to conserve our Western patrimony—something his detractors do not care about. Good riddance to them!
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The Conservative Theory of Radicalization
Conservatives can only curb radicalization through patient persuasion. Cancellation only worsens the problem.
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In Search of Natural Conservatives
The platitude that culturally conservative immigrants and minorities are natural conservatives is a false notion, born of white guilt, that has only led to electoral defeat for the GOP.
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Don’t Throw Out the Liberal Baby with the Bathwater
There is a middle path that prudent conservatives should take between discarding America's founding principles and wholly adopting the neoconservative caricature of it.
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Remembering Henry Ford
Henry Ford gave America its strongest source of order and stability—its middle class—which conservatives and right-wingers should appreciate.
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What We Are Reading: February 2026
Short reviews of 'The Wide, Wide Sea' by Hampton Sides, and 'A Program for Conservatives' by Russell Kirk.
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Taki, Playboy and Raconteur
Taki’s new memoir holds nothing back. Like the man himself, The Last Alpha Male is interesting, witty, knowledgeable, high-spirited, and just plain fun.
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The Real ‘Long COVID’ Symptom: A Collapse of Trust in Experts
Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee examine the myopia of the expert class that imposed the COVID regime and caused Middle America to lose faith in media, tech giants, politicians, and lab coats.
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Our Boy Bill
Sam Tanenhaus's mammoth biography of Bill Buckley reveals new stories, but it doesn't locate the core of the man's conservatism or where he wanted the movement to go.
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Books in Brief: February 2026
Short reviews of 'Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland,' by Salena Zito, and 'The Last Line of Defense: How to Beat the Left in Court,' by Eric Schmitt.
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What Were We Thinking in 2008?
Apologists assured us that digital technology was a “neutral tool," but experience has taught us otherwise. The screen isn’t a passive object; lives are steered by it.
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A Working-Class Siren Song, Sung Blue
In Song Sung Blue, Hollywood distorts an authentic narrative of the struggles of American working-class life into an unrealistic fantasy about stardom and celebrity.
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History’s Dark Glass
Thanks to AI, gazing into the future is no longer spying through a glass darkly, but looking into a mirror reflecting one's own wishes and desires. The past holds no prophecy.
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Australia’s Woke Catholicism Helped Ensure the Sydney Massacre
The horrific slaying at Sydney’s Bondi Beach is the result of an open immigration policy long-touted by Australia's allegedly Catholic bishops.
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Turnabout Is Strategic Play
Political U-turns serve the strategic function of priming the public to eventually accept policies they once unanimously opposed.
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Boss Bass’s Crooked Los Angeles
The Palisades Fire of January 2025 exposed the utter incompetence, if not corruption, of Mayor Karen Bass’s administration.
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Euphemisms
Jessica Mitford was a pioneer in exposing how hucksters weaponize euphemisms to deceive the public. From the funeral industry to Zohran Mamdani, this tactic persists.
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‘Common Sense’ at 250
A quarter-millennium since its publication, it turns out Common Sense is not so common.