By Wayne Allensworth With our people so scattered and atomized by family dissolution, technology, and the personal isolation that comes with obsessive individualism, it would do us all some good to remember a time when that was not so. If we are to reclaim anything for our posterity—or to even have one—we should back up and recall that family and the celebrations that marked our lives...
John le Carré RIP By Wayne Allensworth David Cornwell, who wrote under the pseudonym John le Carré, has passed away at age 89. What follows is an article I wrote for the January 2014 issue of Chronicles. I used the opportunity of the publication of his novel A Delicate Truth to review his life and career. He was, at his best, an extraordinary writer and a fascinating...
By Wayne Allensworth In my article “The Old America is Dead and Gone. Where do we go From Here?” published last summer, I noted that “blue” and “red” areas were both moving toward a form of internal secession: “Blue states and Leftist kritarchs nullify laws they don’t like. Sanctuary cities and even sanctuary states defy immigration laws. Meanwhile, American patriots have...
By Wayne Allensworth As we await the resolution of Trump’s efforts to contest the election outcome—and plenty of people now see the lawsuit filed by Texas and supported by a number of other states as the best way to do that—we should remind ourselves that public affairs are a means to an end, not an end in themselves. And that when matters seem to be out of control, we still have cause for...
by Ayad Rahim “A mistake in Washington is when a politician tells the truth”; so goes an old adage. Well, during this inaugural season of COVID, there have been a few slip-ups. The biggest doozie of them all might have been Joe Biden’s boast, just ten days before the election, that “we have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history...
By Wayne Allensworth The silence, as they say, is deafening—the relative silence of the GOP, that is, which, with some exceptions, has hardly distinguished itself as the Trump administration contests the stolen election. The Deplorables want to fight. They do not want Trump to concede, and they believe that Biden’s “win” was the result of fraud. It will be an uphill...
By Wayne Allensworth The recent rhubarb in the Democratic Party between “progressives” and “moderates” over a sub-par performance in Congressional elections highlighted one of the major divisions within the “coalition of the fringes,” the division between hard left socialists and managerial neo-liberals. The post-Americans who want to rule over us apparently can’t get along. The hard...
By Wayne Allensworth The redoubtable Ann Coulter’s theme of her latest series of campus tours has been “Trumpism without Trump.” Miss Coulter told an audience at The University of Texas-Austin, for example, that she was happy Trump had lost a narrow election, as a second Trump term “would have killed us.” Trumpism—the America First platform Trump ran on in 2016—hasn’t actually been...
By Wayne Allensworth As the deplorable nation went to bed on election night, it appeared that Donald Trump was about to pull it off—the Orange Man seemed to be on his way to a surprise victory. The slanted polls were wildly wrong once again. There was no “blue wave” in sight, and Sleepy Joe had barely left his basement during the campaign. The next morning, we began hearing about a...
By Wayne Allensworth The president has fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. The question is, “Why now?” Esper had earlier resisted the Commander-in-Chief when the president brought up the possibility of invoking the Insurrection Act and using the military to quell the wave of AntiFa/BLM riots that swept over large parts of the country. Trump wasn’t happy with what he...
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