June 2026 Chronicles

Courage should count when evaluating judicial nominees, especially during our present constitutional moment.

Clarence Thomas has left a profound impression on the judiciary by remaining anchored in his originalist jurisprudence.

The Supreme Court’s ruling against racial redistricting is a dent in the larger civil rights regime, which survives to further harass and pester middle America.

Bishop Fulton Sheen understood that Catholicism and Americanism go together, that to be a good Catholic, one must be a patriot.

Short reviews of 'Remembering Who We Are' by M. E. Bradford, and 'History Matters' by David McCullough.

Justice Barrett's 'Listening to the Law' reads as though it were written by a well-intentioned jurist who fails to understand the monstrosity that the high court has become.

In ‘Alito,’ Mollie Hemingway describes the formation and explains the thought of Middle America’s voice on the high court: Justice Samuel Alito.

In 'Inevitable Differences,' John Staddon celebrates the kind of diversity that leftists cannot tolerate.

Short reviews of 'How the United States Would Fight China' by Franz-Stefan Gady, and 'Drop Dead' by Richard E. Farley.

Olivier Assayas's 'The Wizard of the Kremlin' is less 'Red Dawn' and more red yawn.

Paleoconservatism offers young right-wingers an intellectual framework that is both traditional and radical, conservative and subversive.

There’s nothing new about eccentrics trying to assassinate the President. Those who failed are almost completely forgotten.

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.

James Burnham's theory of managerialism is a foundation that conservatives should build upon while also repairing any cracks in that foundation.

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.