Chronicles Magazine

For almost 40 years, The Rockford Institute has published its leading monthly magazine, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Under the direction of editors Chilton Williamson, Jr., Scott P. Richert, and Aaron D. Wolf, Chronicles has been a strong advocate for Western Christian values. This unique magazine strives to reach and influence those in positions of power. A significant portion of its readership—about one-third—holds advanced academic degrees and includes a diverse group of individuals such as authors, filmmakers, university educators, teachers, homeschooling parents, business leaders, government analysts, journalists, religious figures, and politicians. Patrick J. Buchanan, a former presidential candidate, praised Chronicles as “the toughest, best-written, and most insightful journal in America.” One venture capitalist mentioned that Chronicles is more effective than all investment newsletters in anticipating social and cultural shifts, while a bestselling thriller author noted it as “the magazine I read first.” In March 2000, the Chicago Tribune highlighted, “There are few magazines as intellectually stimulating as Chronicles.”

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A New York City Comeback?

1 week ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Paul du Quenoy

Over the past five years, New York City’s status as America’s cultural and business capital appeared to be in doubt. Some 400,000 people—including many high-income earners—fled the city as crime and taxes surged and quality of life plummeted. Meanwhile, South Florida beat a steady march in various financial sectors and experienced an artistic renaissance. Beginning this year, however, New York is showing signs of vitality once again.
On Immigration and In the Academy, Leftist Hypocrisy Stinks

1 week ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Paul Gottfried

Sometimes Democratic hypocrisy becomes so repulsive that I feel like venting. Is Michelle Obama gaslighting us shamelessly, or is she truly suffering a debilitating memory loss when she tells us that she can’t sleep at night because of what Trump and his administration are doing to violent illegals? From what I can determine, her husband during his presidency kicked out over 5 million unwanted poachers.
Models, Reality TV, and Stick-Shift Surprises

1 week ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Mark Judge

I’ve just finished reading a review copy of a terrific forthcoming book: You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America’s Next Top Model by Sarah Hartshorne. Hartshorne was a contestant on America’s Next Top Model in 2007. She placed eighth. You Wanna Be on Top? is more than a dishy tell-all about Tyra Banks and the producers of Top Model. It’s also a wise, literate, and funny book. Reading it reinforced something I’ve known for a while: Models are cool people.
The Trump Tariff Agenda and the Separation of Powers

1 week ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Adam Mill

A pair of lawsuits before the United States Court of International Trade allege that the Trump administration overstepped its authority with the April 2 tariffs because the president has not established the requisite emergency to impose them without congressional approval. In V.O.S. Selections, Inc., et.
In Memoriam: David Horowitz

2 weeks ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Ben Boychuk

David Horowitz, the ex-radical firebrand who spent the last 40 years of his life exposing the left’s lies, hypocrisies, and crimes, died Tuesday, April 29. He was 86. A former Marxist intellectual and New Left insider who became one of the most prolific and pugilistic conservative writers of his time, Horowitz was many things: essayist, agitator, memoirist, mentor, and iconoclast. But above all, he was a political streetfighter of the first order.
A Quarter-Century Later, ‘American Psycho’ Still Fails to Feminize

2 weeks ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Gage Klipper

It’s been 25 years since the world first met Patrick Bateman, the inimitable villain of American Psycho. Intended as a feminist critique of masculinity and yuppie-era excess, director Mary Harron crafted a meticulous portrait of a wealthy Wall Street banker whose polished exterior masked the deranged killer within. Despite Harron’s clear intent to satirize, however, the film has been unironically embraced by the very men it sought to skewer.
Why the Right Likes Russia

2 weeks ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Paul Gottfried

The Russo-Ukrainian conflict has revealed a correlation that is hard to ignore. The further to the right someone stands in American politics, the more likely that person will back Vladimir Putin and the Russian side in the war. By the same token, the further to the left someone stands, the more likely that person will be backing the Ukrainian armed forces and the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Free-trade Has Never Been a Right-Wing Principle

2 weeks ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Paul Gottfried

There is nothing intrinsically conservative or essential to capitalism about free trade. In the 19th century, Western countries that were struggling to modernize their economies enacted tariffs to protect their infant industries. The exception to this rule was Great Britain, which was then the economic front-runner. Even Britain embraced tariffs before World War I as it began to fall behind other countries in its industrial might.
How Wealth Co-opted Conservative Politics

2 weeks ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Mark Brennan

Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America’s Class Divideby David N. Gibbs Columbia University Press 392 pp., $30.00In the 1970s, neither my friends nor I would have flinched if any of the fathers in our upper-middle-class social circle had gone out for a beer with the gas station attendant who changed their oil. Our mothers shared a cup of coffee with the cleaning lady before going grocery shopping. Such interclass encounters didn’t register with us kids.
Solzhenitsyn in Exile: A Giant Among Pigmies

2 weeks ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Joseph Pearce

We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Edited by Ignat Solzhenitsyn University of Notre Dame Press 228 pp., $28.00Straddling the 20th century like a colossus, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s presence dwarfs and overshadows the pigmy politicians of the West and the petty tyrants of the East. His monumental Gulag Archipelago exposed the horrors of the Soviet prison system, with its millions of political prisoners used as slave labor.