Despite the oppressive grip of the left on opinion-making media, Chronicles succeeded in its early years and celebrated its success by increasing its frequency to a monthly magazine.
Author: Leopold Tyrmand (Leopold Tyrmand)
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Two Cultures
Four decades before Hillary Clinton coined the term “Deplorables,” Chronicles predicted how the battle lines in the culture war would be drawn.
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A Prudent Progressive
When I first came to these shores, almost 20 years ago, an escapee from communism’s lethal embrace, a sort of antiwar was raging here. I felt betrayed. As anyone who lived under the most intricate tyranny of mind and body, I believed it every free man’s sacrosanct duty to combat communism’s reptile stranglehold on truth...
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Comment
Democracy, its failures, weaknesses, and sins not withstanding, is the only political system in which the entire social body is to decide on who should conduct its affairs in its name. By the electoral process the majority’s opinion is consecrated as a source of legitimate political power. Annals record many variations of democratic societies in...
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A Prudent Progressive
Do people still rely on the credibility of Prince Bakunin? If they do, this surely must attest to the incurability of the Western civilization’s decline, to its perennial susceptibility to decay through murky and invincible diseases of perception and intelligence. It somehow makes us incline toward a Darwinian concept of justice: a civilization that has...
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A Prudent Progressive
The world is in its present condition (and many suspect that this state is much worse than before, even if “before” may mean only in our own individual memory) because of ideas. Three of those ideas can be credited to three historical figures: Rousseau, Marx, and Freud. Marx came to the conclusion that human economic...
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Two Cultures
Four decades before Hillary Clinton coined the term “Deplorables,” Chronicles predicted how the battle lines in the culture war would be drawn.