Chronicles (magazine)

Cover of the July 2007 issue of Chronicles

Chronicles is a U.S. monthly magazine published by the Rockford Institute. Its full current name is Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. The magazine is known for promoting anti-globalism, anti-intervention and anti-immigration stances within conservative politics, and is considered one of the leading paleoconservative publications.^[1][2][3] Its present editor is Thomas Fleming. The executive editor is Scott P. Richert, Aaron D. Wolf is associate editor, and Chilton Williamson is the senior editor for books.

Chronicles was founded in 1976, soon after the Institute's establishment earlier that year. Originally known as Chronicles of Culture, the magazine was originally published by Leopold Tyrmand and John A. Howard. Thomas Fleming joined the Institute's staff in 1984 and became editor in 1985, after Tyrmand died. Fleming changed the title to Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Chronicles also promotes the activities of the John Randolph Club, another project of the Rockford Institute.

Immigration

See also: Opposition to immigration and Criticism of multiculturalism

In 2007, Chronicles Press/The Rockford Institute published a hard-hitting critique of mass immigration,^[4] Immigration and the American Future, which includes an interview with George Borjas, and essays by Peter Brimelow, Thomas Fleming, et al. Chilton Williamson, Jr., writes in the Foreword:

“Can immigration be expected to change America for better, or for worse? If we accept at face value President George W. Bush’s claim that terrorism represents the gravest threat to America, as indeed it may, then we must ask ourselves whether terrorism, by itself, is capable either of obliterating the United States as—say—Rome eradicated Carthage from the map of North Africa, or of destroying it by effectively replacing the existing nation on what historically has been American soil with another and different nation. If the answer is “No,” then we must agree that the terrorist threat is in fact a subset of the immigration one—and that mass immigration is a greater threat to the survival of our country than any terrorist campaign possibly could be. Which, it seems to me, is saying a very great deal about the dangers posed to the United States by mass immigration.”^[5]

Notable contributors

Virginia Abernethy John Attarian Doug Bandow Alain de Benoist Wendell Berry Mel Bradford Peter Brimelow Patrick Buchanan John Carney[disambiguation needed ] Fred Chappell Alexander Cockburn John James Duncan, Jr., congressman from Tennessee Samuel T. Francis George Garrett Paul Gottfried Ernest van den Haag Leon Hadar David Hartman Michael Hill Philip Jenkins Walter B. Jones, Jr., congressman from North Carolina Bill Kauffman Russell Kirk E. Christian Kopff Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Michael Lind John Lukacs Eugene McCarthy Thomas Molnar William Murchison Andrei Navrozov Robert Nisbet Walker Percy Pat Quinn, governor of Illinois William Quirk Justin Raimondo Norman Ravitch John Shelton Reed Paul Craig Roberts Murray Rothbard Kirkpatrick Sale Joe Sobran James Stockdale R. J. Stove Srđa Trifković Jim Webb, senator from Virginia Chilton Williamson Clyde N. Wilson Aaron D. Wolf Leo Yankevich

References

1. ^ PaleoConservatives: New Voices of the Old Right, by Joseph Scotchie, pgs. 1 - 75.
2. ^ Traditionalist Conservatism, by Jim Kalb
3. ^ "The Paleo Persuasion," The American Conservative, Dec. 16, 2002, by Sam Francis
4. ^ "Elitist Economists, Immigration, And The American Future," by Steve Sailer, VDare, Nov. 12, 2007
5. ^ Immigration and the American Future, ed. Chilton Williamson, 2007.

Selected Reading

• Brimelow, Peter, "The Economic Impact of Immigration: Paying for the Privilege," Chronicles, June 2009.
• Fleming, Thomas, "Counting People and People who Count," Chronicles, Sept. 2007.
• Francis, Samuel, "At the Heart of Darkness," Chronicles, May 1997.
• Kirkwood, Cort, "Bad Whitey 101," Chronicles, August 2008.
• Raimondo, Justin, "The Sibel Edmonds Story," Chronicles, November 1, 2009.
• Richert, Scott P., "Are Conversions to Islam Likely to Increase?," Chronicles Blog, Dec. 12, 2006.
• Roberts, Paul Craig, "The Decline and Fall of the American Economy: Offshoring Our Security," Chronicles, June, 2008.

External links

• Official web site