Mindsets need to shift—accept the burden of victory. If you can’t see how handing control of America’s largest and wealthiest city over to a Muslim socialist who became a citizen 6 years ago will have negative consequences for Republicans nationally, you have a serious lack of vision. The only…
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral primary opens a new era in American crazy. Et voila! New York City’s mayoral race has been won by Zohran Mamdani, no Bernie Sanders-style imitator but the real thing — son of a famed socialist scholar and Marvel superhero to every Jacobin-reading, keffiyeh-wearing student…
Long time readers of my writings on sexual mores know that I make frequent, usually sarcastic remarks at the expense of conservative commentators who are pleased to denounce younger men as “predators.” Many writers use the term, and as a regular reader of Chronicles between 1997 and 2005 I saw it constantly—on…
Over the last couple of weeks, a remarkable sequence of events involving two US Senators has unfolded that demonstrates the profound and positive influence that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is exerting on Washington, DC, which extends far beyond the halls of the CDC, FDA, and NIH. On…
This year marks the 35th anniversary of the publication of poet Robert Bly’s massive bestseller and ’90s cultural phenomenon, Iron John: A Book About Men. Although it’s not mentioned much these days, Iron John deserves a re-evaluation in the face of today’s apparent man crisis. According to reports, men in…
Silicon Valley’s coders are dumping wokeness, rediscovering meritocracy, and quietly rebooting American politics—one red pill at a time. Something is happening in California’s Silicon Valley that is going to change America and the world. It’s a cultural shift with implications that will have an impact as profound as what…
There’s a war brewing on the right, and this one isn’t in the desert; it’s on the airwaves and social media. On one side is Steve Bannon, a populist voice leading the America First base. On the other side is Mark Levin, beating the war drums like a man…
One of the many strange things to come out of the short war between Israel and Iran is the fact that many of our politicians seem to worship Jewish people. It could also be that they worship Israel or perhaps some combination of both. They talk about Israel and…
In April 2025, Tucker Carlson invited Matt Walsh onto his podcast. The conversation covered everything from same-sex adoption and surrogacy to foreign policy isolationism. It is well worth listening to. But beyond the substance of the conversation, there was simply something powerful about a discussion between two men with…
It seems likely that various forms of collapse are in our near future—nuclear war, global overheating, ocean flooding, political dysfunction, civil war, pandemics, the “Great Unraveling”—and that behooves us to contemplate ways of surviving, whether as individuals, families, or groups. Survival, of course, may not be possible, but it…
