As the MAGA political realignment consolidates its power within the GOP, the neocons view the Democratic Party as the best vehicle for their policies.
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The Swan Song of the Arch Neocon
Condoleezza Rice presents a dangerous mixture of militarism and liberal universalism. She is the last Bush-era neocon enjoying relevancy, which makes her even more dangerous.
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Neocon Artistry and Its Discontents
The Neocons, with the political left, now comprise a uniparty elite that confuses the interests of the state with the interests of the American people.
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The Watergate Show Trial
During the Watergate show trial, the due process guarantees of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments were simply cast aside in an effort to destroy a president who was hated by the Washington “Deep State.”
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The Pitfalls of a Woke Foreign Policy
American foreign policy holds woke social engineering as its objective to the detriment of the true national interest.
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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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The Countermarch
This election will determine more than control of the White House or Congress; the future of dissident resistance is at stake.
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Trumpism Has a Future Now
Donald Trump has secured a future for Trumpism by picking J. D. Vance as his running mate. Trump has ensured that Trumpism will not only be about Trump.
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Getting Better By Going Back
The next administration needs to get back to basics. We need to restore law and order, the colorblind meritocracy, and quality education.
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The Protection Election
Right wing politicos should focus on protecting alternative networks and institutions from the current, corrupt regime. As for scaling down or ousting said regime, that's not happening.
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Is a Black Female Dictator in Our Future?
A Harris presidency would mean that the Orwellian trauma will only be intensified: Doublespeak, gaslighting, the erasure of history, and big lies that amount to the reverse or inverse of the truth.
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It Won’t Be Easy to Make America Great Again
Election 2024 will not end or save humanity. What’s at stake in a presidential election is something far different from the all-or-nothing outcome that the rival campaigns envision.
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Know Your Enemy
A Kamala Harris presidency would further solidify the loose federation of institutions that I call the group-quota regime. This regime is bent on destroying the American way of life.
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The Rule of Lawfare
Lawfare is the manipulation of the legal system to get Donald Trump. But more broadly, it's the use of existing law, in a manner not intended by its framers, to neutralize or destroy enemies of those in power.
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Slouching Towards the Gulag
The Trump “hush money” verdict should serve as a wake-up call to all freedom-loving Americans. If the best-known man in the world can be railroaded in a rigged kangaroo court, any of us could be.
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The Empire Strikes Back
Prosecutors pick the person or target and then go searching for the crime. Trump supporters are the latest most glaring example of this inversion of justice, which if often called "lawfare."
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Learning From the Fate of the American Indian
The plight of American Indians provides a cautionary tale on what happens when you can’t or won’t stop those who have come to replace you. Middle Americans and conservatives should take notice.
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American Citizens or Tribal Members of Sovereign Nations?
American Indians compose a nation within a nation. They enjoy American rights and privileges, but also tribal rights and privileges.
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The Quandry of Tribal Sovereignty
Native American resistance, resilience, and perseverance remain prevalent. The limits of Native American sovereignty remain mysterious.
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The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name
The grand strategy of the Democratic Party has become to exploit the growing diversity of the American electorate to construct a Coalition of the Fringes. One result has been the cultural acceptance of anti-white racism.
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The Unprotected Class
To combat anti-white discrimination is not something we should do for whites but for all Americans, because if we don’t change the course we are on, we are all going to suffer.
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The Anti-White Totalitarians
The end game for the anti-white elites is to maintain control, marginalize and, if necessary, wreak destruction upon those who challenge their sway.
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Classical Liberalism Must Endure
The right must defend and restore the early modern-era values of classical liberalism, rather than abandoning them just because they have been perverted by the postmodern left.
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Our Grim Postliberal Future
We inhabit a world vastly different from the one in which liberalism flourished. Liberalism, properly understood, is gone and not coming back.
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A Society That Has Forgotten How to Sing
When words have lost all their musical and poetic power, ultimately they lose all of their power to pierce to the heart of reality itself.
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Pulling the Plug on NATO
Every pro-NATO argument is really an argument for its abolition—in the eyes of America's patriotic realists.
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An Obsolete Alliance Turns 75
NATO has undermined the security of its members and created enemies that, in turn, justify further NATO interference in an increasingly unstable “security environment.”
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Culture War, Whether We Like It or Not
We need to rethink how we fight the ascendant cultural left, which does not consider truth an arbiter.
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Three Conceptions of Conservatism
Editor-in-chief Paul Gottfried offers an examination of three major streams of conservative thought, based on aristocratic tradition, universal principles, and the pragmatic pursuit of power.
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Conservatism After Defeat
Edmund Burke’s statement of government as a compromise and a sharing of power is no longer relevant today. The world has been remade since Burke's warnings, unfortunately.
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Burke on our Crisis of Character
Abandoning our tradition-based constitutional republic, whether for a mythical medieval shire, an idyll of Lockean abstractions, or even a Church militant, is neither necessary nor prudent.
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The Age of Reason and the Age of Fear
There are uncanny similarities between the 18th and the 21st centuries. The whole concept of liberty, equality and fraternity in the last two decades of the 18th century was as much based on a lie as it is in the first two decades of the 21st.
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The World De-Dollarized
A de-dollarized world, where the U.S. dollar is not the preeminent global currency, approaches quickly but this is nothing new—historically speaking—nor is it bad.
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The Political Roots of America’s Inflation Problem
Americans are paying more for life’s necessities, they have meddling policy makers to blame.
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The Coming Displacement of the Dollar
The American dollar will be displaced as the global reserve currency by 2040, and the unipolar superpower of the United States will be but one player in a multipolar world.
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Against the Black Pill
We suffer an oligarchic, feminizing regime that is hostile to most of the defining elements of traditional American identity. But, we also enjoy a golden age of dissent. Now is not the time for despair.
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When the Center Does Not Hold
The federalism of the American founders provides a way to contain Americans’ cultural differences within the political system and maintain order.
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The Two Nations
Localism is the emergent political movement that presents the best alternative to globalism.
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The Future of the American Resistance
As the American left brings all aspects of human life under the ideological command of an all-powerful state, the right needs to pursue a strategy of decentralization.
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A Turbulent Traditionalist Priest
Faithful Catholics should not comply with the totalitarian demands of the globalists. We should not fear those who can kill the body but not the soul.
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Subverting Protestantism
The Missouri Synod is siding with Antifa over its own historic teachings, and its own members. Congregants within other supposed conservative churches should take note—be prepared for false promises and betrayal.
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The Rise and Fall of the Evangelical Elite
The current evangelical elite came of age at a time when secular influences tried to stay neutral toward Christianity; The faith competed as an equal in the marketplace of ideas. But those days are over. In our age of secularist hostility, evangelicals need new tactics.
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The State of Catholicism
The post-conciliar Church's efforts to bring Christ into the modern world have brought the modern world into the Church. The Church is not moving the world; the world is moving the Church.
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Toward a Secular America
America is finally joining the secularism of the other nations of the West. In this transition to secularism one key lesson emerges: faith is inextricably bound up with family.
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A Bridge to Nowhere
Modernist education is a bridge to nowhere. This is so almost by definition because modernism holds no transcendent aim for man nor even any reliable bedrock of human truth upon which to build.
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Why the Politics of Grievance Is a Winning Strategy for the Democrats
The Democratic Party decided to abandon the working class and become the party of grievance groups generations ago. This is what it is today; there's no going back.
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As American as a Stolen Election
U.S. presidential elections are routinely contested for a reason: Cheating has been a recurring part of the American electoral process.
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Embracing Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly prominent presence in our lives, stirring both awe and apprehension.
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Rise of the Deadbots
Among the advancements in AI applications are those popularly known as “deadbots,” which allow users to speak to the dead without secret rituals, mediums, Ouija boards, or cryptic table-tapping. The proliferation of deadbots poses serious ethical questions, and their growing acceptance is a measure of our desperate, post-human secularity.