Protecting children should include keeping them away from adults who seek to affirm their doubts about identity.| Chronicles
Incessantly blaming white male suburbanites for Democrat urban mayors—as Con Inc talking heads are apt to do—excuses the inner-city voters who actually elected these anarcho-tyrants who indulge the criminal class.| Chronicles
A reader recalls his friendship with Col. James Warner Bellah, and another critiques the Trump administration's deportation of unpopular (anti-Israel) opinions.| Chronicles
The issue at the heart of both abortion and pornography is the bad behavior of women, and no church council hierarch, bishop, or pastor wants to talk about that—lest they incur the wrath of the Susan's.| Chronicles
The legs of Reagan's stool were held together by weak political glue that inevitably gave way under strong philosophical tensions.| Chronicles
The economic, free-trade leg of Reagan's stool cut the others out and toppled the coalition. It's we return to authentic economic conservatism.| Chronicles
Reagan and Trump both crafted unique political alliances of disparate groups built more on rhetoric than deeds. Many promises made, few fulfilled.| Chronicles
The three-legged stool of conservatism was created to stop a nationalistic Trump-like figure from filling the void left by Reagan’s exit.| Chronicles
Julius Evola, the enigmatic self-styled traditionalist, criticized modern materialism more incisively than any other rightist thinker of the 20th century.| Chronicles
Short reviews of 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë, and 'Voyage Around My Room' by Xavier de Maistre.| Chronicles
America’s real secret government was exposed by the work of the late Angelo Codevilla. His advice to prosecute the evildoers in the American intelligence community should be heeded.| Chronicles
Michael Oakeshott warned that rationalism in politics leads to rigid, rule-bound governance, and to the imposition of the state's enterprise over and against the free association of individuals.| Chronicles
Welcome to modern journalism. Water is wet. Sky is blue. Trump is a fascist.| Chronicles
We should all be for the proposition that Americans ought to have more children, but the truth is that we may have our hands full with trying to improve the quality of the population we’ve got.| Chronicles
Trump can regain the momentum he’s lost since the convention—but only if he defines Harris in voters’ minds, so he’s running directly against her, not his party, his allies and himself.| Chronicles
In the course of American history, nationalism and republicanism have usually been enemies, not allies. From the days of Alexander Hamilton, nationalism has| Chronicles
When T.S. Eliot said that there are no lost causes because there are no won causes, he probably was not thinking of American conservatism. Nearly sixty years| Chronicles
Trump, Boebert, Gibson—or any candidate—might have moral character flaws, but candidates who are personally objectionable are often politically indispensable.| Chronicles