Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture

11/06/2025

11/06/2025

Our Imperial Judiciary

The federal courts have granted to themselves on their own authority overwhelming power over matters that before the middle of the 20th century were considered none of their business. They have turned virtually all political questions into legal ones.

H. A. Scott Trask writes in the November Chronicles: https://chroniclesmagazine.org/view/our-imperial-judiciary/

11/05/2025

The November 2025 Chronicles is available online:
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/2025/11

The lead feature this month: "Our Imperial Judiciary"

The federal courts have granted to themselves on their own authority overwhelming power over matters that before the middle of the 20th century were considered none of their business. They have turned virtually all political questions into legal ones. Historian H. A. Scott Trask writes: https://chroniclesmagazine.org/view/our-imperial-judiciary/

Chronicles Editor Paul Gottfried assesses the ideas of the “neoreactionary” thinker Curtis Yarvin: https://chroniclesmagazine.org/view/assessing-curtis-yarvin/

British writers Derek Turner and Neema Parvini write about Britain’s totalitarian left and the right-wing popular reaction:
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/correspondence/labour-pains/

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/columns/digital-ids-are-coming-whether-you-like-it-or-not-thanks-to-tony-blair/

and J. R. Donner remembers the life and ideas of Roger Scruton in this month’s “Remembering the Right”:
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/remembering-the-right/remembering-roger-scruton/

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11/01/2025

Millennial Conservatism Is Over

Millennial conservatives adopted the left’s moral framework in order to highlight leftist hypocrisy. The rising Zoomer right, by contrast, boldly rejects this framework.

Chronicles Assistant Editor John Howting writes in the November issue: https://chroniclesmagazine.org/editorials/millennial-conservatism-is-over/

10/31/2025

Boris the Blowhard

Boris Johnson now profits, by way of premature memoir, off a career built on family connections and an ability to soothe voters with pleasant but empty phrases. Behold the blowhard.

Derek Turner writes in the October Chronicles: https://chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/boris-the-blowhard/