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  • Battles We Can Win: Family, Morality, Education

    Battles We Can Win: Family, Morality, Education2

    In “Burke on Our Crisis of Character,” which appeared in the December 2023 issue of Chronicles, Bruce Frohnen notes, “The American Way was real, rooted in families whose rights trumped the demands of the state because families were more natural and fundamental than the state.” The following month in the same magazine, Stephen Baskerville reviews

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  • The Fruits of Freedom: Barbara Feigin’s ‘My American Dream’

    The Fruits of Freedom: Barbara Feigin’s ‘My American Dream’0

    In her recently published memoir My American Dream: A Journey From Fascism to Freedom, Barbara Sommer Feigin begins by recounting her escape in 1940 as a 2-year-old from Nazi Germany to the United States. She recreates this trek, which ran from Europe across Russia to Japan and then to America, using a journal her father

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  • Murdering Meaning: The Verbicide of Contemporary America

    Murdering Meaning: The Verbicide of Contemporary America9

    In George Orwell’s 1984 are dichotomies now familiar to many Americans: “War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.” Inscribed on the outside of the white, pyramid-shaped Ministry of Truth, this is the motto of Oceania, a nation governed by “The Party.” The Party designed these slogans to obfuscate the meaning of words, thereby

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  • A Missing Link: Our Border Catastrophe and the Failures of Corporate Media

    A Missing Link: Our Border Catastrophe and the Failures of Corporate Media3

    Who, what, and where, by what helpe, and by whose, Why, how and when, doe many things disclose. — The Arte of Rhetorique, 1560 In “The Five Ws (and H) of Journalism,” Richard Nordquist notes that, in the above lines, English rhetorician Thomas Wilson devised the formula that later became standard in journalism. “Who,” “What,”

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