James Burnham's theory of managerialism is a foundation that conservatives should build upon while also repairing any cracks in that foundation.
Tag: National Review
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The Indispensable Magazine
Chronicles Editor in Chief Paul Gottfried remarks on 50 years of Chronicles.
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A Leftist Is Not Improved by Zionism
It is interesting to note how establishment American conservatives equate moderation with support for Israel and, for that, are willing to overlook all other leftist sins.
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A Letter from the Publisher
Chronicles, once crying in the wilderness, has reemerged as a prophet whose time has come.
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Frank the Fusioneer
Daniel J. Flynn argues that Frank Meyer brought a lot more to the conservative table than musings about "fusionism." Meyer built the movement's infrastructure.
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No, I Have Never Been an Isolationist
Although skepticism about U.S. military adventures overseas is always warranted, the Trump administration has earned the benefit of the doubt. For now.
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Gilding the Funeral Lilies for Jesse Jackson
Those who now hail the late Rainbow PUSH leader as a “civil rights icon” engage in willful amnesia about his many unsavory activities and statements.
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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.
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How Machiavelli Divided the Right
Newly discovered letters between Leo Strauss and the editors of National Review show the magazine’s staff divided over whether Machiavelli was essential to the study of politics or a source of moral corruption.
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The Heritage Foundation’s Struggle Session
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts has been ensnared in a campaign of ritual humiliation and denunciation with no end in sight.
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You Can’t Purge Tucker
The establishment conservative movement will not be able to stifle Tucker Carlson in the same way that it did Sam Francis and others.
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King, James, and Amos
When the New York Post accused Letitia James of plagiarizing Martin Luther King Jr., the paper exposed its own serial ignorance.
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Why Sharpies Are Made in America Again
Putting a little faith (and money) behind American factories and workers will sometimes defy the laws of globalization.
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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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A Model Neocon
While the broader conservative movement at least pretends to hear the people’s call for an end to forever wars, National Review’s Noah Rothman remains a stalwart defender of the neocon orthodoxy.
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The Ritualized Confrontation Between MAGA and the Neocons
If the necons are for it, MAGA is against it; but sometimes even our enemies can be correct, as I think the neocons are about Iran and the danger it poses.
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Amid Courtroom Spectacles, Senate Should Confirm Emil Bove
Bove’s nomination should be embraced by conservatives and endorsed by Republican senators.
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Zionism Should Not Be a Conservative Sine Qua Non
The Zionist litmus test that the conservative establishment imposes on its members is improper and harmful. It's time the right end its Israel obsession.
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The Totalitarian Impulse Buckley Knew
William F. Buckley understood the totalitarian impulse of the left, both at home and abroad, but the magazine he left behind fails to grasp it.
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Tariffs Are a Bitter, But Necessary, Pill to Swallow
The Trump tariffs aim to take America off the addictive, but toxic, globalized economic system that enriches Wall Street while decimating Main Street.
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Rod Dreher Wants to Be MAGA’s Conscience Now
The famous NeverTrumper spent the better part of the last decade decrying Trump and his supporters. Now he pretends to offer friendly advice. It ought to be ignored.
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Remembering Westbrook Pegler
The conservative columnist Westbrook Pegler attacked the New Deal, big labor, and the civil rights movement. Though largely forgotten today, he set the standard for American right-wing commentary and still exerts influence over unwitting imitators.
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The Spirited Right Must Unite Around Consent
It will not do for the right to make lazy appeals to tradition when the American tradition now includes a long history of support for the administrative state.
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Dealmaker, Peacemaker, President
President Trump understands that American foreign policy is rooted in interests before values.
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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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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 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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What We Are Reading: January 2025
Short reviews of Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow, and The Immigration Mystique by Chilton Williamson.
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When Enough Isn’t Enough: Carter’s True Legacy
The embarrassing fawning over Carter’s legacy from establishment conservatives reveals their abiding desire for social respectability at the expense of truth.
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The Insurmountable Evil of the American Media
The media is composed of hideous people who, in their dedication to destroying Trump, have lost all credibility.
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Deserved Desertions
The recent mass defection from the GOP of careerists and neocons is hardly surprising or disappointing. Good riddance!
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Remembering Thomas Molnar
At the heart of Thomas Molnar's work was the problem of authority and how it might be sustained in a world where power had been shorn of its sacral dimension.
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Why Paleoconservatism Matters
A young reader explains how and why Chronicles has played such a central role in his development as a thinker and citizen.
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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.
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Wrongthink About Israel Is America’s Thought-Crime
Although Israel has been forced into asymmetrical warfare with Hamas in Gaza, labeling Americans who question U.S. involvement in this affair “anti-Semitic” is an overreach of equally asymmetric proportions.
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Buckley Revisited, Again
William F. Buckley, for all his strengths, left behind a deeply flawed magazine and movement, which was very much to his demerit.
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An Inept Takedown of William F. Buckley
PBS’s “Incomparable Mr. Buckley” offers a left-wing caricature of a complex man and the conservative way of life he advocated.
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PBS Misremembers William F. Buckley Jr.
In failing to mention Communism, the makers of a PBS documentary about William F. Buckley unintentionally remind viewers of why Buckley was needed in the first place—and why he still is.
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The Struggling Journalist Ruse
Taki, by posing as a starving journalist, deceives an immanent novelist into granting an interview.
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Con Inc. Tries to Smear Pat Buchanan as an Anti-Semite Once Again
The United States is not Israel. Understanding that does not make you an anti-Semite or even hostile to Israel. It’s just reality: a concept that appears increasingly elusive to GOP leadership and establishment conservatives.
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What Accounts for the ‘Traditional Democrat’ Lovefest on the Right?
According to the centrist, hawkish wing of the GOP, even far-left Democrats are “traditional” pseudo-conservatives as long as they are pro-Israel.
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Getting Unexpectedly Noticed
National Review writer Michael Brendan Dougherty's recent comments explain the attempts of conservative establishment publications to ignore paleoconservatives.
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Stan Evans: Unsung Hero of the Right
Despite his significant contributions to the post-WWII right in America, M. Stanton Evans is not as well-known as his many accomplishments warrant. Steven Hayward's new biography sets the record straight.
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The Great Conservative Death Wish
The unremitting success of the left’s march through Western institutions hardly suggests that liberals suffer from a death wish; on the contrary, it is conservatism that appears to be consuming itself.
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Conservative Gatekeeping
Conservatism Inc. has a long history of purging undesirables who challenge its party lines, but those in charge of the movement typically hide this practice.
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Opening the Window to Real Historical Debate on the Right
The true dividing lines on the right lie on the terrain of American history—the Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, and the Civil Rights Era—but the conservative establishment's narrative about these topics has grown stale.
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The Pygmies Squeak … Again
Neocon intellectual midgets continue to smear Sam Francis long after his death because his writings represent an effective opposition to the ruling class.
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Frank Meyer’s Fusionism and the Search for Consensus Among Conservatives
Frank Meyer’s attempt to codify a conservative consensus must be understood in the context of his day, when remnants of the Old Right were marginalized and conservatism was dominated by anti-Communism.
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DeSantis, Trump, and a New Right Comfortable With Power
Unlike many on the right, Governor Ron DeSantis is not afraid to use political power.