Chronicles Magazine

The May 2026 Chronicles "Media Bias in the Age of Trump" is online and available for subscribers. In our lead feature this month, Daniel J. Flynn explains how big tech tries to circumnavigate the mainstream media’s credibility problem by controlling what we see: chroniclesmagazine.org/.../media-bias… Chronicles Editor-In-Chief Paul Gottfried provides more historical context on the subject of media bias to illustrate the unique situation in which Americans find themselves, with an entertainment industry openly hostile to them: chroniclesmagazine.org/.../americas-m… @BrianTKennedy1, of the Claremont Institute, reflects on his friend Andrew Breitbart and his crusade against what he called the “Democrat Media Complex”: chroniclesmagazine.org/.../rememberin… Chronicles Books Editor Mark G. Brennan analyzes contemporary delivery mechanisms of news and information and concludes that the method of delivery is the most dangerous aspect of today’s media: chroniclesmagazine.org/.../the-medium… And, Chronicles CEO and Publisher @EricTeetsel expounds on why Chronicles is needed in the current media landscape: chroniclesmagazine.org/.../why-chroni… Those features, along with book and film reviews, and more, are in the May issue, available in full for subscribers here: chroniclesmagazine.org/2026/5/ Support our work and subscribe to Chronicles here: chroniclesmagazine.org/subscribe/

How Charles Murray Found God In ‘Taking Religion Seriously, Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) leads the reader along his fascinating, intellectual journey toward God. John Zmirak writes for the May issue of Chronicles: chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/how-ch…

Fascinating old article from Bill Kaufmann in @ChroniclesMag on Alice Roosevelt, her acerbic wit, her inexhaustible hatred for Woodrow Wilson, and her later enmity for her hapless cousin, FDR.

Check out "chroniclesmagazine.org/web/pope-leo-n…" Instead of going out of his way to offend the Church’s natural allies in the fight for sensible AI regulation, Pope Leo ought to learn to speak their language, writes @ToryAnarchist Daniel McCarthy

Check out "chroniclesmagazine.org/web/thomas-mas…" The downfall of Thomas Massie, though perhaps understandable, is not something for the right to celebrate in the same way as Bill Cassidy’s defeat, writes Editor-in-Chief Paul Gottfried.

Check out "chroniclesmagazine.org/web/rememberin…" A lion of the Christian right and a good shepherd to the poor has passed, leaving behind a legacy of service to his country and to God, writes John Zmirak.

Warsh Tasked To Make Fed Sterling Again A sterling reputation is not bestowed by credentials, office, or institutional memory but through rigorous testing according to objective standards. Benjamin M. Osborne writes for Chronicles Online: chroniclesmagazine.org/web/warsh-task…

Conventional thinking on the right today embraces the Warren Court’s radical shift toward judicial supremacy, forgetting the arguments advanced by conservatives of that era as well as by the founders. Nicholas Mosvick (@nmosvick) writes: chroniclesmagazine.org/web/do-conserv…

The Indispensable Magazine Chronicles Editor in Chief Paul Gottfried remarks on 50 years of Chronicles: chroniclesmagazine.org/polemics-excha…

Books in Brief: May 2026 Short reviews of ‘Proto’ by Laura Spinney and ‘Selected Letters of John Updike,’ edited by James Schiff. Paul du Quenoy (president of the @PalmInstitute) and Joseph Scotchie write for the May issue of Chronicles: chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/books-…

The False Ghosts of the Confederacy The pull of the Old South in the New South is neither as strong as the left fears nor as ingrained as some old-timers wish. Scott Greer (@ScottMGreer) writes for Chronicles Online: chroniclesmagazine.org/web/the-false-…

The GOP Is Better Off Without Massie Grandstanding but neutered populists like Massie, for whom politics is at best an entertaining game, cannot deliver because they do not understand what is needed in our time. Matt Boose (@matt_boose) writes: chroniclesmagazine.org/web/the-gop-is…

Dr. Paul Gottfried is the editor-in-chief of @chroniclesmag. He joins me for a broad discussion on American politics. (2:00) Chronicles updates (7:01) What does Dr. Gottfried make of Trump's second term? (12:06) Is recent political polarization Trump's fault? (15:54) Reflecting on the 2024 election (19:17) Will the Democrats moderate? (23:47) The pre-Trump GOP was terrible on immigration (25:10) Wokeness is not in retreat In the second half of the show (available to subscribers, link in reply), I ask Dr. Gottfried whether he believes the leftward cultural drift we’ve witnessed for many decades will continue – and if so, which remaining taboos will be violated. Switching gears, I ask Dr. Gottfried about his thoughts on Thomas Massie (the episode was recorded Tuesday afternoon, before his primary loss). We talk about Ken Paxton. I ask Dr. Gottfried if he has a shot. Later, we discuss 2028, considering Vance, Rubio, and DeSantis. Toward the end of the show, we give the neoconservatives a well-deserved drubbing, because it wouldn’t be an interview with Dr. Gottfried if we didn’t.

Read the latest by FAIR's @BrianSLonergan: "When someone lies on his or her application—about criminal history, terrorist affiliations, or war crimes—that person was never truly qualified. Denaturalization is simply correcting the record."