November 2024 Chronicles: Return of the War Nerds
Author: Edward Welsch (Edward Welsch)
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The Democrats’ Collapse
Kamala Harris' presidential campaign flounders after a series of awful October interviews. The smart money says Trump is heading back to the Whitehouse.
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What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election
The editors of Chronicles have asked a collection of commentators to imagine the potential consequences of this election for our readers.
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August 2024
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June 2024 Chronicles
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The Neoconservatives’ Latest Purge
The recent neoconservative attack on Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson shows what happens when conservatives dare question U.S. support of Israel.
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April 2024 Chronicles
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Nuland, We Hardly Knew Ye
The arch-neoconservative Victoria Nuland resigned from the State Department last week, after a long career of fomenting nearly every U.S. foreign policy debacle—most especially Ukraine's losing war with Russia.
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March 2024 Chronicles
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February 2024 Chronicles
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Weren’t We Supposed to ‘Learn to Code?’
An undercover video exposed IBM's CEO pressuring his executives to hire based on racial quotas that discriminate against whites, Asians, and males. Such apparent violations of the Civil Rights Act are now standard practice in America.
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January 2024 Chronicles
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The George Floyd Cover-Up
The public was sold the lie that a rogue, racist cop murdered George Floyd, but the shocking truth is coming to light.
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December 2023 Chronicles
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November 2023 Chronicles
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October 2023 Chronicles
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August 2023 Chronicles
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Letting Paris Burn
France is reaping the harvest of disastrous immigration and economic policies. Rather than advocating for an unlikely restoration of order in Paris and other riot-prone Western cities, conservatives should steel themselves to wait patiently for collapse.
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June/July 2023 Chronicles
Chronicles June/July 2023: Transhumanism, a Deal With the Digital Devil. Thematic essays on the subject of transhumanism and the effect of artificial intelligence on humanity.
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A Midwestern Morass
Now that they hold the levers of power by a slim majority, Minnesota Democrats are cramming far-left bills through the legislature, showing what an assertive American left is willing to force upon its minority conservative population.
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May 2023
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April 2023
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Are We the Baddies?
It appears the U.S. government has attacked the civilian infrastructure of a NATO ally for the purposes of maintaining geostrategic advantage over both Europe and Russia, revealing the utter moral bankruptcy of U.S. foreign policy.
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March 2023
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Three Cheers for the Twenty
In early January, 20 Republicans in the House of Representatives stood up to their Party’s corrupt leadership and forced the adoption of rule changes that will benefit Americans and restrict the activities of Washington’s bipartisan deep state.
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February 2023
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January 2023
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December 2022
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November 2022
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Rings of Intersectionality
Just as a conquering army defaces the monuments of its defeated foes, America’s woke film industry has seized the opportunity in Rings of Power to have its way with the mythology of Tolkien's Men of the West.
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October 2022
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Apocalyptic Warnings
While politicians and media stars talk casually of nuclear war, the risk of a catastrophe that could kill the majority of human life rises ever higher.
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September 2022
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August 2022
Overturn! Paul Gottfried, Stephen B. Presser, William J. Watkins Jr., and Wesley Stine on the demise of Roe v. Wade
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July 2022
Chronicles July 2022 issue: The Failure of Liberalism and the Conservative Crisis of Faith
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June 2022
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It’s Time to Break Up Amazon
Despite Jeff Bezos's libertarian ideology, Amazon has used governmental privilege to grow to a massive scale, and has had a disastrous effect on American life, as Alec MacGillis shows in Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America.
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That Old Anti-Semitism Smear
Chronicles Associate Editor Pedro Gonzalez was accused of being an anti-Semite by The Spectator Associate Editor Douglas Murray on Wednesday of last week. In an article entitled “When the Right Plays With Jew-Hate” in the Substack newsletter of former New York Times op-ed editor Bari Weiss, Murray wrote that Gonzalez “unmasked himself boringly and yet still wretchedly, as an antisemite.”...
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Dune’s Modernist Space Heresy
A stunning new film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction epic, Dune, recently graced America’s silver screens. The talented Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve has fully utilized modern cinematic technology to bring to life Herbert’s bizarre story of a far-flung neofeudal humanity existing some 20,000 years in the future. Villeneuve’s adaptation of these best-selling science fiction...
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Election Oddities
The Tale of Joe Biden’s Election Night Spike In the early morning hours of election night, the release of final vote counts was delayed in some battleground states. There were various reasons for the delays, including a suspicious report of a burst water pipe in an Atlanta polling site, but generally the reason given...
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The Madness of Mike Lindell
Mike Lindell is furious with me. The Minnesota marketing genius, who pulled himself out of drug addiction and became a millionaire by selling pillows, is pointing a shaking finger at where I’m sitting in the gallery above the stage of his Cyber Symposium in Sioux Falls. After delivering yet another angry tirade at the media,...
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What We Are Reading: The Machiavellians
In this sequel to his groundbreaking 1941 analysis of world politics, The Managerial Revolution, James Burnham introduced a group of 20th-century, mainly Italian, political scientists bound by a concept that has come to be called “elite theory”: to wit, that all societies are run by and for the benefit of their elites, rather than by...
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Children of the Revolution
Riots broke out in Los Angeles in July, spurred by a viral video in which a woman alleged that a transgender, biological male exposed his penis to her young daughter at a health spa. People who showed up to protest the spa were met by violent Antifa counterprotesters, who beat, maced, and stabbed their way...
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A Matter of Trust
“I trust the science,” is a venerable Democratic Party slogan that has been repeated for many years by smug, virtue-signaling liberal sophisticates. “Trusting the science” is shorthand for holding an uncritical belief in all the stances of the left that carry a veneer of expert approval, including catastrophic climate change, insidious white privilege, and materialistic...
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Child of Serial Monogamists
I met my mother’s fourth husband last fall. Now retired, they were traveling cross-country, from South Carolina to California, to be with my sister as she gave birth to her first child. My mother brought me a present, which included a coffee cup imprinted with the slogan “Life is About Creating Yourself.” My parents have...
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The Daunte Wright Shooting and Demographic Shift
Riots have kicked off again in Minneapolis, this time touched off by an apparently accidental police shooting of an unarmed 20-year-old black man, Daunte Wright, who was attempting to flee police in his vehicle. Nighttime curfews have been imposed across the city but have been routinely ignored by groups of protestors, who are peaceful by day...
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Leave Dr. Seuss for Dead
One of the most prominent children’s book authors of the 20th century, Dr. Seuss, suffered a double blow to his legacy this month. His estate said they would no longer publish six of his children’s books that contained depictions of Africans and Asians that are “hurtful and wrong.” The Biden administration followed by unceremoniously dumping...
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An Interview with Matthew Tyrmand
Just returned from a trip to Europe, journalist Matthew Tyrmand sat down for an interview with Chronicles to discuss his work and thoughts about the future of America after the 2020 election. He was informed by officials on re-entry to the U.S. that the Department of Homeland Security had revoked his “Global Entry” status, which...