Twenty Years of the War on Terror

By Hunter Derensis, The American Conservative Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, by Scott Horton (The Libertarian Institute: 2021), 330 pages. We’re approaching the 20th anniversary of the Global War on Terror when the George W. Bush administration made the decision to ruin the 21st […]

Church membership in the U.S. has fallen below the majority for the first time in nearly a century

But traditional religion is being replaced with political religions and free-for-all occultic and/or conspiratorial beliefs. Nietzsche would have predicted as much. So would Dostoevsky. By Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post The proportion of Americans who consider themselves members of a church, synagogue or mosque has dropped below 50 […]

Anarchist Supervillains

Anarchist News For all our talk of solidarity, there are some anarchists who other anarchists just love to hate. In every milieu there are larger than life figures who’ve transgressed in one way or another – either through something they said, or wrote, or did – and who […]

Remembering Leo Strauss

One of the neocons’ intellectual godfathers. Know your enemy. By Grant Haver The political theorist Leo Strauss (1899-1973) is perhaps an unlikely subject for Chronicles’ “Remembering the Right” series. Although no one can deny the extensive influence of his ideas on the conservative (and later, neoconservative) movement in […]