If Democrats don’t weigh their words more carefully, more violence will follow from the likes of Ryan Routh.
False Narratives Driving America’s Immigration Policies
Before any serious work can be done to correct America’s border policy failures, we must dispel the false narratives about immigration that too many Americans still accept as fact.
Schadenfreude for National Review’s ‘Canceled’ Editor-in-Chief
It is difficult to summon sympathy for Rich Lowry, who has engaged in exactly the kind of willful canceling of others as is happening to him now.
Whistleblower Claims ABC News Colluded with Democrats in Debate Prep
Very little is known about the woman who could be elected president in November. ABC News appears to have colluded with Kamala Harris’s campaign to keep it that way.
‘Exemplum’s’ Paul Roland on Faith and Movie Making
An interview with the young Catholic filmmaker who made a movie with just $10,000 and got a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Why Are the Nutjobs Trying to Kill Political Opponents All Left-Wingers?
The Left has had a violent streak going back at least as far as Karl Marx's calls for a global revolution of the proletariat—and the French Revolution even before that.
The Self-Sabotage of Abortion ‘Rights’ Absolutists
Abortion rights absolutists don’t realize how unsafe and unsavory abortion can be when the civilization that values female safety and health is destroyed.
College Sports Are Essential
Despite the resentful envy most academics have for athletes, sports are critical to a balanced education.
Joe Biden, 20 Years Ago, Blocked the Potential First Black Female on the Supreme Court
Joe Biden repeatedly blocked the path of Janice Rogers Brown when she was being considered for the Court.
The Harris-Walz Cosplay Campaign: A Theater of the Absurd
Best get your tickets to the Harris-Walz cosplay campaign’s theater of the absurd. Their show closes in November.
RFK Jr.’s Masterpiece of Political Oratory
The former Democrat demonstrated what it takes to deliver a convincing and rousing political speech. The old and nearly lost art is due for a revival.
Who or What Now Governs America?
Clues from three key players suggest a cabal of commie aficionados beginning with the president who never left D.C.
When Character Assassination Becomes the Real Thing
Routh took both literally and seriously Democrats and progressives who say Trump is a threat to America's institutions and the rule of law itself.
Yard Sign Disunity and Cognitive Dissonance
The Harris campaign of “joy and unity” might want to have a few words with its enthusiastic yard-sign-posting supporters.
The Racial Hatred Behind Anti-Trump Extremism
After a second assassination attempt, ordinary Americans are beginning to see that those who hate Trump hate them, too.
‘They Want Government to Be God’
The latest God’s Not Dead is the bravest movie of the fall season, Mark Judge writes. Read his interview with the film's cast.
Abortion Is Not Really the Issue
There is something completely irrational about the United States’ perpetually aggrieved female voters. Trying to appease this demographic is an exercise in futility.
Trump Keeps It Real at ABC’s Rigged Debate
Harris got under Trump’s skin, but she did nothing to alter the perception that she belongs to the status quo. She did not articulate a vision for the future, lay out an economic plan, or clarify how her hard-left views have changed.
White Guys and 9/11
Whiteness and maleness lately have been under constant attack. It’s worth remembering that 23 years ago our culture celebrated four white male heroes who stopped a terrorist attack in the skies above Pennsylvania.
Dick Cheney’s Faustian Final Gesture
A former Cheney staffer looks back with sadness at a man who refused to admit his errors and who is ending his career as a Republican politician with a spite-motivated endorsement of the opposition.
Kamala Harris Runs Like a Republican—and Misleads on Tariffs
Kamala Harris—the incumbent Democrat Vice President—frames herself as Republican challenger. This messaging is misleading, but some free-market wonks are playing along.
Germany’s AfD Derangement Syndrome
The leftist hysteria that frames its opposition as Nazis has finally subsided in the U.S., but in Germany it’s just getting started.
California’s September Surprise
Politiqueros Pelosi and Newsom ramp up bribes for America’s imported electorate.
Harris Avoids Interviews Because She Can
Welcome to modern journalism. Water is wet. Sky is blue. Trump is a fascist.
Foreign Gangs Take Root in America’s Sanctuary Cities
For too long, America’s liberal sanctuary city mayors could preen about their superior compassion with little to no cost. The Biden-Harris border crisis is changing that.
Imperfectly Human
In our sometimes too perfect digital world, it is good to relish the imperfections that were marked by an older technology.
The Biggest Issue in This Election
Harris has been an enemy of the First Amendment throughout her career.
The Meaning of Kursk
The Ukrainian incursion into the Kursk territory is unlikely to change the outcome of the war in Ukraine. The refusal to see that is only prolonging Ukraine’s misery.
On Abortion, Trump Is Moderate—While Harris Is Maximalist
The staunchest pro-lifers don't want to settle for Trump’s compromise, but the alternative on the ballot in November isn’t an absolute anti-abortion position.
Big Soft Daddy Walz
Don’t trust the men promoting progressive ideology to tickle women’s imaginations by reversing the expected sex roles. They offer little besides corruption.
United We Stand
In 2024 we see surprising alliances forming to oppose the corruption and tyranny of our government.
Trump, Vance, and FDR
Trump and his movement are following the path blazed by the Democrats before they became the party of woke: The old FDR playbook.
A Deserved Death Denied
A new plea deal spares the life of three surviving masterminds of the 9/11 terrorist attack. It's indicative of our legal system’s refusal to mete out fitting punishment for even the most vile criminals.
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.
The Countermarch
This election will determine more than control of the White House or Congress; the future of dissident resistance is at stake.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Same Old Brilliance and Blind Spots
Thomas Sowell's latest work offers a remix of his greatest hits on race, economics, the "expert" class, but he misses things of interest to those of us on the paleo-right.
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.
Son of Tocqueville, Socrates, and Holmes
If Alexis de Tocqueville, Socrates, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., could be combined, such a person would be like Philip Howard. His Everyday Freedom is a well-timed neo-Tocquevillian polemic.
Remembering Klemens von Metternich
Metternich orchestrated a European balance of power, which ensured nearly a century of peace and flourishing, but he failed to deal with the forces of nationalism and liberalism.
Nursing the Nation’s Population Replacement
America has a real nursing shortage but it’s not due to a shortage of immigrant healthcare workers or any of the other reasons routinely given by the oracles of respectable opinion.
What We Are Reading: September 2024
Short reviews of The Military Condition by Alfred de Vigny, and Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope.
Books in Brief: September 2024
A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China, by Dale C. Copeland (Princeton University Press; 504 pp., $31.30). Woodrow Wilson’s April 1917 plea to Congress to “make the world safe for democracy” launched America on a futile messianic crusade that plagues us even today. Nowadays, “safe” includes spitefully flying the rainbow flag...
Restless Work, Energetic Play
The family home is a last flickering outpost of liberty, though it is besieged from without by the school and the workplace and vitiated from within by mass entertainment.