Paleoconservatism offers young right-wingers an intellectual framework that is both traditional and radical, conservative and subversive.
Category: Columns
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Shooting at Presidents
There’s nothing new about eccentrics trying to assassinate the President. Those who failed are almost completely forgotten.
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Hopeful Eagle, Crouching Dragon
The U.S. must view China’s actions through a realist lens if the eagle hopes to tame the dragon and avert a costly war.
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Our Elite Illiterati
If only the Pulitzer Board would read the books they honor, such as Brian Goldstone's 'There Is No Place for Us,' they would know the common—most obvious—causes of homelessness.
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Conservatives: Know Your Burnham
James Burnham's theory of managerialism is a foundation that conservatives should build upon while also repairing any cracks in that foundation.
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The Untold Immigration Story
Our nation’s best course of action on immigration can be determined empirically—even though few are willing to frame the issue this way.
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Viktor Orbán, Down But Not Out
Viktor Orbán was voted out last month, but he remains Western civilization’s indispensable man as Europe suffers its dark night of the soul.
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Red Diaper Tourism
Faulty 14th Amendment jurisprudence has beget the massive, nightmarish Chinese birth-tourism industry in California.
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The Medium Is the Miasma
Left-wing media bias is harmful and addictive, but the delivery system is far worse than the drug.
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Whose Creed? Whose Country?
We should consider the implications and limits of creedal nationalism as we approach the 250th anniversary of our separation from Britain.
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Rupert Lowe’s Quiet Revolution Within the British Right
Rupert Lowe leads the revolution against the Tory-Labour-Reform uniparty.
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It’s a Shame We Can’t Trust Our Elders
The New Right views the old neoconservative establishment as a disinterested father who cannot be trusted.
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John Russell: From Guadalcanal to Hollywood
Beta-males have not always run Tinseltown. Red-blooded warriors once dominated film and TV sets.
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Finding Victory in Iran and a Swift End to the War
President Trump must define victory in Iran and deliver it quickly.
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The 14th Amendment Is Not a Suicide Pact
Birthright citizenship is not what the framers of the 14th Amendment envisioned. It is time to scrap it!
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No Books, No Knowledge
As we lose the written word, we lose something even more valuable. We are becoming less literate and dumber!
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Affirmative Action in the Heartland
Ian Andre Roberts’ con worked wonders until DEI met ICE, and the truth caught up with this undocumented public schools superintendent.
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Trump’s Foreign Policy Is a Return to Hobbesian Reality
In the affairs of nations, the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
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Our Elites and Their Body Counts
Truth is the first casualty of both war and pedophile sex rings. Our elites care more about their body counts.
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Epstein Files Push the UK Left
As the Epstein scandal drags down Peter Mandelson, it will also drag down the Labour Party's moderate wing and empower a more radical leftist faction.
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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.
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Wokeness and Capitalism
Wokeness undergirds American capitalism, and the U.S. has strived to export it to the vassals of its empire.
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The Trump Doctrine
President Trump has outlined a sound and pragmatic foreign policy based on a neo-Monroe Doctrine, in which America aims to reinforce its political, economic, and military preeminence in the Western hemisphere.
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The Creedal Nation Myth
For creedalists, “we,” that is, Americans—as a distinct people—don’t exist. Not now, and not ever.
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Homelessness Ain’t What It Was
The class of traveling homeless called “tramps” and “hobos” are an endangered species in Western societies, which are now too dangerous to support their existence.
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The Zionist Politburo Cannot Purge Tucker Carlson
Neoconservatives are trying the same tactics that worked in the 1980s and '90s to try to cancel their enemies on the right. It won't work this time.
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Geezer Chat
You know things are bad for the younger generations when even old folks are talking about how hard it is for the young to buy homes and find jobs.
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Europe’s Unending Tragedy
Europe’s politicians are displaying the same old mix of audacity, fear, greed, and fanaticism that lead to the World Wars. This time, it may result in a truly final catastrophe.
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MAGA’s Transhumanist Tension
The MAGA coalition between American populists and the Silicon Valley tech-right is rife with contradictions. It's only a question of when, not if, the underlying tension will erupt.
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Farewell
In his final column, Taki Theodoracopulos reflects on 25 years of writing at Chronicles.
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The Mysterious Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
What happened to America's most famous female aviator? Was she a spy for Roosevelt? Did she fake her own death and live out the rest of her life in obscurity? Or is she at the bottom of a Nikumaroro lagoon?
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Digital IDs Are Coming Whether You Like It or Not, Thanks to Tony Blair
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s announcement of mandatory digital IDs for all British subjects came as something like a bolt out of the blue. It was not in Labour’s election manifesto and the public was not consulted. An official petition against the digital ID plan amassed 2.9 million signatures. Yet the government did not accept...
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Hesperophobia Hall
Created by FDR and Churchill, the only thing that unites the United Nations members today is their hatred of Western culture.
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The Mental Chains of Conspiratorial Thinking
Increased belief in conspiracy theories often coincides with societal crises; there are cycles, periods in which conspiracism waxes and wanes against the backdrop of uncertainty and tumult.
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Justice, Not Revenge
After four years of lawfare against Trump and his advisors, Democrats are squealing now that the shoe is on the other foot. It's time to teach them a lesson.
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Is Civil War Really Coming to Britain?
Predictions of impending civil war in the UK and in the United States are greatly exaggerated.
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The Poison in America’s Heart
Online radicalization, whether from the left or right, seems to be the real root of the recent spate of political assassinations.
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What Is the West?
For many, "the West" is uncommonly hard to define. One universal characteristic all Western nations share is that they are all being targeted by mass illegal immigration.
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Bullet Train Boondoggle
California's high-speed rail is emblematic of the Golden State's decline: A great idea, sure to attract new residents and businesses, that somehow turned into another wasteful boondoggle.
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The Hopeless Malaise of British Politics
Britain's industries are owned by foreigners and her politicians are crazy, feckless, or both. We need another Oliver Cromwell!
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Tiny Nation, Huge Success
Singapore exemplifies effective governance and shows how third-world nations can attain first-world status.
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Escaping the Shallows
AI is not only breeding intellectual laziness, it's breeding intellectual blandness. McWorld turned out to be more cognitive than corporate!
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Farewell to Not-So-Merry Old England
Britain has lost its culture, its high quality of life, and its sanity. The UK has become just another backward socialist state.
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Is Islam a Problem?
Islam has no monopoly on violence or extremism, but it has other distinct problems that should concern the West.