Chronicles Magazine : A Magazine of American Culture

Putins Lack of a Grand Strategy

by Srdja Trifkovic

Vladimir Putin lacks the kind of grand vision and decisive temperament needed to make Russia a highly respected world power in the current global environment.

by Roger D. McGrath

California has been living off its legacy of water projects for the last several decades like a lazy, self-indulgent, trust-fund recipient.

by Edward Welsch

Just as a conquering army defaces the monuments of its defeated foes, Americas woke film industry has seized the opportunity in Rings of Power to have its way with the mythology of Tolkien's Men of the West.

by Jack Trotter

In her unguarded moments, South Carolina politician Krystle Mathews provided a glimpse into the philosophy and methods of racial intimidation used by some blacks to gain and maintain political power.

by Stanley G. Payne

One of the last great leftist myths of the 20th century is that the Spanish Civil War was a struggle of republican democracy against nationalist fascism. In reality, it was a violent mass-collectivist revolution put down by Spanish moderates and conservatives.

by Daniel McCarthy

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.

by Stephen B. Presser

Gordon Wood shows how far we have drifted from the Founding Fathers' vision of a polity that would limit arbitrary power in order that the government might serve the people rather than tyrannize them.

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