Sins of the Fatherless
After Ian Dowbiggin’s commentary on psychology in the July 2021 issue of Chronicles, I was stunned to see Stephen Baskerville write in the May 2022 issue that “the crash of Western civilization” is due to …
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The Failure of Liberalism and the Conservative Crisis of Faith
The crisis of conservatism is a crisis of faith stemming from the failure of classical liberalism and the resultant politicization of the economy.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe noted regarding Francis Fukuyama’s 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man, …
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Why Russia and China Are More Conservative Than the West
Despite their Communist past and present, Russia and China are demonstrably more conservative in many ways than present-day, self-hating America.
What are conservative values? Freedom of speech? Free markets? Guns? Not necessarily. Although relevant, these things do not define what …
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A Fork in Europe’s Road
In 1814-15, the Congress of Vienna laid the foundations of the new European order. The event concluded a quarter century of turmoil, which started with the French Revolution in 1789 and ended with Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo. The congress …
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Cracks in the Narrative on Ukraine
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s foreign policy adviser Jens Plötner caused a major stir on June 20 when he said that the media should focus more on Germany’s future relationship with Russia than on supplying Ukraine with heavy weapons. He was …
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Is There a Western “Plan B” in Ukraine?
In his latest interview for Serbia’s top-rated Happy TV channel, Srdja Trifkovic dwells on the military and political dynamics after 111 days of the conflict in Ukraine. Since Dr. Trifkovic was speaking from Switzerland, via Skype, the first question was …
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Ukraine, a Hundred Days Later
Last Friday, June 3, marked the 100th day of the war in Ukraine. The war has not gone well for Russia. It is turning into a protracted affair, with many known unknowns. Its eventual outcome—not only military and political …
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Letter from Italy: Signs of Hope in Veneto
“A man is never undone till he be hang’d.”
Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Driving back from the Balkans to Zurich earlier this week, I stopped in Verona for a day. It is always a pleasure to visit this …
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U.S. and Ukraine, Goals in Conflict
Among the nations aiding Ukraine in its resistance to the Russian invasion, America has been foremost. Yet the war interests of our two nations are not identical. To the U.S., the imperative is that the war be contained, not expanded, …
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Foreign Policy as Spiritual Warfare: A Conversation With Aleksandr Dugin
Russian philosopher, mystic, political strategist, radical bohemian, and geopolitical guru; Aleksandr Dugin is notorious, yet few in the West know much about him. Described by some as the brain of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dugin is often depicted by Western …
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Russia, Ukraine, and the Return of Nationalism
The Russia-Ukraine War has become a proxy fight between American-led globalism and the alternative: a multipolar world of nation-states free from American hegemony.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has become a test case for the ambitions of the United States and …
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Quo Vadis, Mother Russia?
“The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” said Russia’s new ruler Vladimir Putin in his 2005 state of the nation address. “As for the Russian people,” Putin went on, “it became a genuine …
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The Punishment That Europe Imposed on Itself
On May 15, Serbia’s oldest evening paper, Večernje novosti (Evening News), published an interview with our Chronicles Foreign Affairs Editor Srdja Trifkovic under the headline, “Debt Bondage to America,” and the subheading, “Srdja Trifkovic on the punishment that …
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Why Would US Give a War Guarantee—to Finland?
Seeing Russia invade Ukraine, historically neutral Finland has undergone a late conversion and decided to join NATO immediately. Why? Because NATO membership means the world’s strongest power, the United States, under Article 5 of NATO, would go to war against …
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A Melancholy Parade
Moscow held its traditional Victory Day military parade this week. The events in Ukraine made it a strange and troubling affair. The gap between the polished show on the Red Square, choreographed with customary precision, and the sordid battlefield reality…
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Is Ukraine’s War Now America’s War?
Last week, sources leaked to The New York Times that, in Ukraine’s targeting and killing of Russian generals and the sinking of Russia’s Black Sea flagship, the Moskva, U.S. intelligence played an indispensable role.
Apparently, our intel people identified and …
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Western Hypocrisy Created Putin
Speaking at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, President Joe Biden declared on March 26 that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” Recognizing the danger of those words, Secretary of State Antony Blinken swiftly tried to do damage …
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A Ukrainian Tragedy
The Russian attack on Ukraine presents us clearly with an old dilemma in human affairs, which harks back at least to Hesiod’s Theogony: is our world Cosmos or Chaos? Is our history ruled by chance, in this case in …
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Come Home, America
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a special military operation in Ukraine was aimed at overthrowing the current authorities in Kiev, blocking NATO expansion eastward, defending the pro-Russian regions of Ukraine, and demilitarizing that country, removing any current or …