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.
Month: July 2026
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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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Hacks and Historians
Paul Starr’s recent book, “American Contradiction,” bears the mark of an author who rushes history and, thereby, reveals himself to be a hack. History takes time!
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The Conservative Intellectual Movement’s Next Chapter
George H. Nash chronicled the conservative movement better than anyone else, but the next chapters of that movement were first foretold in this magazine.