As we engage in the Greenland debate, it is helpful to recognize the fundamental differences and interests between the United States and Europe.
The Middle Path
As the right has fractured into extremes over Israel and Jewish influence, Chronicles remains focused on the critical battleground and the chief opponent: immigration and the left.
Virginia Democrats Are Not Playing Beanbag
“Politics ain’t beanbag,” or so the saying goes. These days, the only people who seem to understand that are Trump … and the Democrats.
Heritage Is Better-Off With Kevin Roberts—and Without the Malcontents
Kevin Roberts fights to conserve our Western patrimony—something his detractors do not care about. Good riddance to them!
The Conservative Theory of Radicalization
Conservatives can only curb radicalization through patient persuasion. Cancellation only worsens the problem.
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.
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.
Remembering Henry Ford
Henry Ford gave America its strongest source of order and stability—its middle class—which conservatives and right-wingers should appreciate.
What We Are Reading: February 2026
Short reviews of 'The Wide, Wide Sea' by Hampton Sides, and 'A Program for Conservatives' by Russell Kirk.
Taki, Playboy and Raconteur
Taki’s new memoir holds nothing back. Like the man himself, The Last Alpha Male is interesting, witty, knowledgeable, high-spirited, and just plain fun.
The Real ‘Long COVID’ Symptom: A Collapse of Trust in Experts
Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee examine the myopia of the expert class that imposed the COVID regime and caused Middle America to lose faith in media, tech giants, politicians, and lab coats.
Our Boy Bill
Sam Tanenhaus's mammoth biography of Bill Buckley reveals new stories, but it doesn't locate the core of the man's conservatism or where he wanted the movement to go.
Books in Brief: February 2026
Short reviews of 'Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland,' by Salena Zito, and 'The Last Line of Defense: How to Beat the Left in Court,' by Eric Schmitt.
What Were We Thinking in 2008?
Apologists assured us that digital technology was a “neutral tool," but experience has taught us otherwise. The screen isn’t a passive object; lives are steered by it.
A Working-Class Siren Song, Sung Blue
In Song Sung Blue, Hollywood distorts an authentic narrative of the struggles of American working-class life into an unrealistic fantasy about stardom and celebrity.
History’s Dark Glass
Thanks to AI, gazing into the future is no longer spying through a glass darkly, but looking into a mirror reflecting one's own wishes and desires. The past holds no prophecy.
Australia’s Woke Catholicism Helped Ensure the Sydney Massacre
The horrific slaying at Sydney’s Bondi Beach is the result of an open immigration policy long-touted by Australia's allegedly Catholic bishops.
Turnabout Is Strategic Play
Political U-turns serve the strategic function of priming the public to eventually accept policies they once unanimously opposed.
Boss Bass’s Crooked Los Angeles
The Palisades Fire of January 2025 exposed the utter incompetence, if not corruption, of Mayor Karen Bass’s administration.
Lies, Damn Lies, and Euphemisms
Jessica Mitford was a pioneer in exposing how hucksters weaponize euphemisms to deceive the public. From the funeral industry to Zohran Mamdani, this tactic persists.
‘Common Sense’ at 250
A quarter-millennium since its publication, it turns out Common Sense is not so common.
When State Resistance Meets the Constitution
In the age of immigration conflict, questions of constitutional supremacy, the extent of executive power, and whether we will live according to the rule of law are all coming to a head.
Leave It to the Lawyers
Lawsuits are about to descend on everyone involved in the Renée Good and Alex Pretti shootings. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey won’t escape the civil courts.
Leftist Hysteria in Minneapolis Is About Votes, Not Immigrants
The left’s sympathy for immigrants is really about their lust for power.
Minneapolis and the Anti-Communist Film Festival
We can learn more about what inspires leftist street action in Minnesota by examining old anti-communist films than we can from following the legacy media today.
Further Thoughts on a Creedal Nation
Denying America’s historic Anglo-Protestant identity and replacing it with a “creed” open to anyone is both bad history and a defective understanding of citizenship.
The Grift Awakening
In this postmodern age, America’s appetite for religious revival has been redirected toward the grift of politics.
Canada Should Warm to Trump’s Arctic Plans
Canada cannot expect Americans to be complacent about waters it claims but cannot secure when Russia and China are eager to step in.
Keir Starmer’s Cultural Relativism Locks the UK in a Brutal and Primitive Past
The Labour leader’s electoral dependence on the large influx of Muslim immigrants encourages him to defend barbaric practices like cousin marriage.
Canada’s China Syndrome
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is infected with Sino-sycophancy; the U.S. has its own super-spreader in California’s Gavin Newsom.
Trump Makes Steady Headway Against a Demographic Coup
The left’s ongoing propaganda war over immigration enforcement is taking a toll on public opinion, but the deportations must and do continue.
‘The Testament of Ann Lee’: Hollywood’s Retroactive Repression
Hollywood only seems able to scold America in one direction these days.
Virginia’s New Governor Offers a Stark View of Leftist Rule to Come
Republicans should think hard about what’s happened in Virginia before becoming complacent about the coming midterm elections.
How Fernando Mendoza Embodies the Athletic Character America Needs
The Hoosier quarterback consistently demands a focus on the meaning and purpose of athletic achievement.
Robert Matthew Vandervoort, RIP
Chronicles mourns the loss of a dedicated patriot and leader whose work and support for the ideas promoted by this magazine will be missed.
Karoline Leavitt, Destroyer of Media Hackery
The president’s press secretary knows how to shoot down activist “journalists” pushing left-wing propaganda about immigration enforcement.
Good Riddance to Kathleen Kennedy
The Hollywood producer’s departure from Lucasfilm is welcome news, but it will not be enough to save the Star Wars franchise from the woke side of the force.
Despite Trump’s Success, Immigration Isn’t ‘Solved’
Despite remarkable progress by the Trump administration, the degree of our border crisis is such that it will be a long time before it is “solved.”
A New Book Trashing Elon Musk Is Already Out of Date
The far-left authors of this attempted hit job had reality hit them in the face before they even took the first shot.
The ‘Creedal Nation’ Myth Just Won’t Die
The attempt to reduce America’s story to the “creedal nation” ideology ignores its historic identity and reality.
From Rock to Tech, Talent Flees Taxes
Blue states and cities like California are wrecking the very prosperity that makes their extensive social services and government benefits possible.
CIA Family Business
From the Cold War to Islamic terrorism, the agency has been in the business of betraying the American people.
Mature Multiculturalism
Americans are beginning to see that the U.S. has absorbed too many people from countries too different from our own—and that it’s no longer taboo to talk about it.
The Awful ‘Marty Supreme’
The frenetic pace of Marty Supreme does not compensate for the film’s lack of depth or meaning.
Why the International Left Is Silent on Iran
As the Iranian regime burns, so, too, is the ideology that is said to animate international leftism.
There Is No ‘Nice’ Way to Do Mass Deportations
Liberal and media backlash is to be expected, no matter how deportations are carried out.
Ideological Eating and the Sheep Who Participate
As we endure another “Veganuary” it’s interesting to note that the participants are doing more harm than good—both to themselves and the planet.
Fraud, the Fed, and Unchecked Power
Trump’s animosity toward Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has a natural basis—the Fed is a Wilsonian progressive institution created to act outside the Constitution’s separation of powers.
Trump’s Successes All Point to Avoiding Entanglements
The Trump administration is strongest when it focuses on economics and immigration at home. When it is protecting our interests abroad, it should be wary of entangling us in the internal problems of other nations.