Courage should count when evaluating judicial nominees, especially during our present constitutional moment.
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What Makes Clarence Thomas Great
Clarence Thomas has left a profound impression on the judiciary by remaining anchored in his originalist jurisprudence.
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Media Bias in the Age of Trump
While activist reporting has undermined the left-wing media’s credibility, Big Tech seeks to save the left via biased story aggregation.
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Citizenship Means Something
The Founding Fathers never intended to grant citizenship to foreigners who happened to be born on America’s shores. Citizenship, properly understood, means sole allegiance to the United States.
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The Vow That Binds
Denaturalization is a time-honored American tradition worth reviving—especially now!
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Who Defines Insurrection?
We are no longer discussing a theoretical statute from a distant constitutional past; we are confronting a live dispute over federal supremacy, state resistance, and the president’s obligation to ensure that federal law can be executed safely and effectively on American soil.
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Anti-ICE Violence, the Insurrection Act, and Jefferson Davis
The surge of left-wing violence against immigration officers in Minneapolis is entirely different than the situation leading up to the U.S. Civil War.
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The Conservative Theory of Radicalization
Conservatives can only curb radicalization through patient persuasion. Cancellation only worsens the problem.
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In Search of Natural Conservatives
The platitude that culturally conservative immigrants and minorities are natural conservatives is a false notion, born of white guilt, that has only led to electoral defeat for the GOP.
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Don’t Throw Out the Liberal Baby with the Bathwater
There is a middle path that prudent conservatives should take between discarding America's founding principles and wholly adopting the neoconservative caricature of it.
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Woke Will Never Go Broke
The principle of managerialism dominates modern corporations and government agencies. The experts who run them have a fundamentally leftist orientation: they are always searching for incremental progress on never-ending reforms.
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America’s Affordability Crisis
The affordability crisis is a governing crisis: a failure to use power to deliver outcomes that make ordinary life better.
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Trump’s Second First Year Shows What’s Possible in American Politics
Trump has shown much greater zeal in delivering progress on immigration, anti-wokeness, and trade than he ever did in the 2010s. There have been serious gains in right-wing policy in just the first year.
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The Anti-Defamation League: Thuggery Under Cover of Fighting Anti-Semitism
The attempt to rehabilitate and whitewash the ADL as a conservative ally against anti-Semitism is a farce. The ADL has been a major advocate of leftist, even far-leftist, causes for decades.
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Dead Boy
The little cousin is dead, by foul abstraction, A green bough from Virginia’s aged tree, And none of the county kin like the transaction, Nor some of the world of outer dark, like me. A boy not beautiful, nor good, nor clever, A black cloud full of storms too hot for keeping, A sword beneath...
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Our Imperial Judiciary
The federal courts have granted to themselves on their own authority overwhelming power over matters that before the middle of the 20th century were considered none of their business. They have turned virtually all political questions into legal ones.
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Assessing Curtis Yarvin
Much of Curtis Yarvin's critique of the cult of democracy is true, though it's been said before. And his rise to prominence is a welcome sign in a conservative movement accustomed to canceling its dissidents.
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The Strange Death of the Arab State
After a century of failures, the modern Arab state republics have nearly all collapsed. Only the Arab tribal monarchies have survived the winds of change.
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Conservatism Inc.’s Ceaseless Quest for the Great Black Hope
Since the civil rights movement, the American conservative establishment has been obsessed with converting a racial demographic that will always view them with contempt.
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The Gipper’s Stool
The legs of Reagan's stool were held together by weak political glue that inevitably gave way under strong philosophical tensions.
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The Broken Promises of Free Trade
The economic, free-trade leg of Reagan's stool cut the others out and toppled the coalition. It's time we return to authentic economic conservatism.
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A Tale of Two Stools
Reagan and Trump both crafted unique political alliances of disparate groups built more on rhetoric than deeds. Many promises made, few fulfilled.
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Trump’s Re-Creation of the Old ‘New Right’
The three-legged stool of conservatism was created to stop a nationalistic Trump-like figure from filling the void left by Reagan’s exit.
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The Woke Right and Déjà Vu All Over Again
Conservatism Inc. pins the "woke right" label on anyone who confronts the left rather than cowering before it.
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Why the Woke Right Crusade Failed
James Lindsay's campaign against the "woke right" was a ploy to ensure that the right-wing reaction to wokeness didn't stray too far from whatever he considers “classical liberalism.” Most people have seen through his ruse.
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What Trump Means for Europe
Donald Trump has prevailed by drawing his sword and confronting the mainstream media, the woke universities, and the the entire ideological edifice of the 20th century. European rightists should cheer him.
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Rethinking Absolute Judicial Independence
Trump’s fight with the courts exposes a defect in our Constitution: a lack of judicial accountability. It's time we hold these Solons in black robes accountable.
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The Ukraine War and the End of American Superpower
The Ukraine War is a symptom of the American empire’s decline. It is time for America to untangle herself from the region and focus on her vital interests.
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America Needs an Immigration Moratorium
It is not enough to merely undo the damage of the Biden administration by deporting all illegal immigrants. There must be a moratorium on all immigration into the United States from culturally incompatible Third World countries.
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Exposing the NGO Immigration Grift
NGOs and other charitable organizations both fund and profit greatly from the immigration racket, to the detriment of many Americans.
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Time to Topple the Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment is not a beatific and integral part of some mythical “Second Founding.” Indeed, it undermines republican government.
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How “Democracy” Lost Its Meaning
Majorities still rule in most Western countries, but unelected bureaucrats continue manipulating majorities and elections.
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Forever Young
Baby Boomers have bankrupted almost all of America’s public institutions, indebted future generations at levels impossible to repay, and delivered us all into the post-COVID dystopia of frayed social fabric and a total loss of public trust.
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Post-Boomer Conservatism
Baby Boomer conservatism arose during the salad days of American capitalism, the apex of American military might, and the drama of the Cold War. That's all gone and the young right stands at a crossroads.
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The Boomer Truth Regime
Baby Boomers have safeguarded and perpetuated a grand myth through which they interpret past and present events, and derive motivations. Myth is one hell of a drug.
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Will Fox News Outlive the Boomers?
Fox News continues occupying the right-center in American politics, but the rising generation of American rightists are miles further off to starboard.
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We Were Right About the Managerial State
In the '80s, Chronicles emerged as the sole voice within the conservative movement questioning the ever-growing managerial state.
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We Were Right About Foreign Policy
U.S. leaders continue vindicating Chronicles' warnings with their disastrous foreign policy decisions. It remains to be seen whether President Trump will continue to break the trend by keeping the U.S. out of unnecessary wars.
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We Were Right About Immigration
There was little critical discussion of immigration in the pre-Trump era save in the pages of paleoconservative publications such as Chronicles and VDare. We were right and it's time to say so!
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We Were Right About Tariffs
Trump is again preparing to use tariffs to maximize America’s leverage and expand its deal-making options. Tariffs can and will be used to promote an America First trade agenda.
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We Were Right About the Family
As Chronicles broke free of movement conservatism, we began exploring the disintegration of the family and we found many likeminded friends. It was an exciting time.
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Intersectional Technocracy: The New Matrix
Many political theorists have declared the battle over ideologies outmoded and supplanted by a reign of experts or technocrats, but ideology has made a comeback.
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Democracy and the Manipulation of Public Opinion
Walter Lippmann and John Dewey wrestled over the competence of the common citizen and the very notion of public opinion.
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Return of the War Nerds
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.