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Chronicles Magazine March 2020

Society & Culture

Historical Revisionism on the Right
Grant Havers - MARCH 01, 2020
Nietzsche writes in the concluding section of Twilight of the Idols, “One does not learn from the Greeks—their way is too alien, and also too fluid, to have an imperative effect, a ‘classical’ effect.” The divide between Greek antiquity and...
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Society & Culture

How Communism Saved the Eastern Bloc from Cultural Marxism
Ian Henderson - MARCH 01, 2020
Despite living under nearly a century of oppressive, conformist, Soviet-style Communism, Eastern Bloc nations have somehow maintained strong senses of cultural, religious, linguistic, and ethnic identities. What’s more, they arguably have...
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Correspondence

White Man's Soul Music
Wayne Allensworth - MARCH 01, 2020
Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison was the first album I ever had of my own, a Christmas gift from my parents. I listened to that album over and over on the stereo my parents had given me that year, sprawled out on the floor of the living room of the...
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City of Westminster

Brexit Got Done, Now Get Over It
Freddy Gray - MARCH 01, 2020
The great 2016 vote-undoing project seems at long last to have been abandoned on both sides of the Atlantic. In Washington, President Trump’s impeachment fizzled out—a strange and pathetic affair however you look at it. Everyone is looking past...
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Breaking Glass

And a Little Child Shall Mislead Them
Philip Jenkins - MARCH 01, 2020
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has become a vastly influential force in the discussion of global climate change. Even so, policy makers are reluctant to challenge her because her global reputation verges on the hagiographic. Conservative...
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Short Views

Tariffs Work
Tom Piatak - MARCH 01, 2020
For decades, American political discourse has largely operated within the spectrum of opinions voiced by the editorial pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Opinions not embraced by one of these newspapers...
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