A countercultural reading list for people interested in the ongoing fight for the dignity of civilization, marriage, and the family.
Justice Starts at Home
As the next election cycle begins, Soros-backed prosecutors seem likely to face a homegrown reckoning.
Trump Inauguration: Too Many or Too Few Blacks?
CBS's Gayle King blasts Trump for having too few blacks while The View’s Sunny Hostin says there were too many.
Trump Battles Globalism in Public Health
Trump is right to focus on America First when it comes to public health.
Texas’s Growing Pains
Frustrated residents of blue states flocking to Texas are bringing many of the problems they’re trying to escape with them.
The Sorrows of Empire
Leftist ideals are more suited to the governance of global empires than nation-states. Unfortunately, the right is also tempted by imperial ambition.
Picking Up Buchanan’s Torch on Immigration
As the Trump administration begins, its immigration policy sounds a lot like the one advocated by Pat Buchanan.
The Bowl Games Confound Their Critics
Experts tried to move college football to a new playoff system, but bowl games showed America that there’s good reason to love venerable traditions.
One Last Climactic Scene: Me vs Matt Damon
The actor’s unfair portrayal of Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday Night Live is making news again and it’s time he owned up to the injustice of it.
Biden’s Legacy: Some Tips from the Historians
Like FDR before him, Joe Biden will be given a huge assist from the liberal historians who will manufacture his legacy.
Joe Biden’s Sudden Onset Fanaticism
Like many on the left, Joe Biden initially embraced woke ideology opportunistically, but eventually became a true believer.
Reality Finally Defeats Sanctuary Utopianism
Nothing has been so thoroughly discredited during the Biden years as the policy of sanctuary cities.
Has Trump 2.0 Learned From Trump 1.0?
It is important to be clear-eyed about the task ahead for President-elect Donald Trump.
Is Transgenderism Anti-Gay?
And even if it is, why should the right be involved in the operation of discrediting it on those grounds?
Cleaning Up the Culture of Incompetence Starts in D.C.
If we don’t clean up the dysfunctional culture of the Beltway, we shouldn’t be surprised when it spreads to the rest of the country.
LA Fires—One-Party City and State Blames ‘Climate Change’
California is getting precisely the kind of emergency management it voted to get.
More Than A Game
How Notre Dame football made American Catholics and college athletics part of the great American tradition.
The Lie that MAGA is DEI for White People
The fantastical idea that the West’s survival depends on replacing itself with the rest of the world contorts reality.
LA’s Devastating Lesson for Blue Cities Everywhere
Blue cities across the country should learn from the disaster in Los Angeles and demand changes that leave them less vulnerable.
As Trump Picks Face Confirmation, Fauci Tries to Reinvent AIDS
Inside Anthony Fauci’s attempt to evade accountability for the COVID catastrophe and to chart the future of white-coat supremacy.
Can the Detroit Lions Lift the Curse of Bobby Layne?
After more than 50 cursed years, the road to the Super Bowl finally appears to run through Detroit.
Democrats Aren’t Democracy’s Party
Burned when they trusted their voters to give them electable candidates in the ’70s, Democrats have turned to power brokers. And they still get it wrong.
Should I Sue the Washington Post?
There comes a point when enough is enough. The media should be held accountable for their lies.
German Police Shield Muslim Offenders, Fail German Society
German police have made it their priority to keep the public in the dark about the identity of the majority criminal element in that society.
The Dangerous Ignorance of Economics Aggravates Fire Devastation
Elected officials who fail to understand the basic laws of supply and demand make every crisis worse.
The Die-Hard Myth of the Missing American Tech Workers
A narrative with its origins in little more than greed refuses to die, despite readily available evidence refuting it.
Andrew Breitbart, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Two-Way Politics-Culture Street
Zuckerberg’s recent mea culpa tour demonstrates how culture can sometimes be downstream of politics.
Democrats Hold Their Noses and Certify ‘Insurrectionist’ Trump
Democrats' talk of staging an objection to the certification of an "insurrectionist" quickly evaporated, and the certification of Donald Trump's victory proceeded without a hitch.
‘Daniel Penny Effect’ and New York’s Surging Crime Rates
Who can blame New Yorkers for refusing to intervene to prevent crime when they live in a city where such heroes are treated as criminals?
The Cost of Trump’s Deportations Is a Bargain
Activists now feigning outrage over the cost of deportation had no problem spending your money to maintain illegal immigrants in the U.S.
Donald Trump’s Worldwide Election
Trump provides a voice for the right even beyond America's shores.
Biden Degrades Presidential Medal of Freedom by ‘Honoring’ George Soros
In choosing to bestow an award on a monster and enemy of Western civilization, Biden has betrayed Americans one more time.
‘For the Good of the Country’
Democrats need to learn that voters want one question answered above all others in making policy: “Is this policy for the good of the country?”
NYT Reporter Regrets Kavanaugh Hit: “I Have Learned Some Lessons”
In an age where journalists may finally be held accountable for their lies, we should expect more sudden pangs of conscience.
Make Agencies Mortal Again
DOGE’s first task should be to make government agencies compete to be efficient, or face elimination.
Tech Brahmins Should Look at Indian Dysfunction First
Before criticizing America and American workers, people like Vivek Ramaswamy should consider the ramifications of importing India’s dysfunctional culture.
The Acts of ‘Axe’
Obama’s personal storyteller David Axelrod sold the American public a bill of goods.
My Own Brush With Abortion
As an “inconvenient” child born before Roe, I was lucky that there was no notion of a “right to an abortion” then.
Brothers: Donald John Trump and Cassius Marcellus Clay
Both Ali and Trump, kindred spirits in so many ways, shook up the world.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Remembering Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler confronted the progressive theory of history with his own cyclical theory and diagnosed the causes of the West's decline.
What We Are Reading: January 2025
Short reviews of Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow, and The Immigration Mystique by Chilton Williamson.
The Self-Defeating Nature of Jewish Leftism
The book "The New American Anti-Semitism" underlines the dangers of the American Jewish romance with the political left. Yet it still falls into the old trope of calling all Israel's critics anti-Semites.
Searching for Zion
Rachel Cockerell's quest in "Melting Point" to discover the truth about her great-grandfather has produced not just a family history but a history of the broader search for a Jewish homeland.