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| '''''Chronicles''''' is a ] monthly ] published by the ] ]. Its full current name is ''Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture''. | |||
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| '''''Chronicles''''' is a U.S. monthly magazine published by the ] and associated with ] views.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Murphy |first=Paul V. |title=The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |year=2003 |location=United Kingdom}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hawley |first=George |title=Making Sense of the Alt-Right |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2017 |location=United States}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Whalen |first=Eamon |date=June 28, 2023 |title=Breitbart exposed a right-winger's racist texts. How did we even get here? |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/breitbart-just-exposed-a-right-wingers-racist-texts-how-did-we-even-get-here/ |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dougherty |first=Michael Brendan |date=2016-01-19 |title=How an obscure adviser to Pat Buchanan predicted the wild Trump campaign in 1996 |url=https://theweek.com/articles/599577/how-obscure-adviser-pat-buchanan-predicted-wild-trump-campaign-1996 |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=]}}</ref> Its full current name is ''Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture''. It was founded in 1977 by the ]. Today, the journal is published by the successor organization Charlemagne Institute. Since 2021, ] is the editor-in-chief.<ref>Editorial Team – Chronicles, https://chroniclesmagazine.org/editorial-team/</ref> | |||
| The editor is ]; the executive editor is ]. ] is associate editor, and ] is the senior editor for books. The magazine strongly supported the candidacy of ] in the ] and ] presidential elections. Taking an anti-], some say pro-], editorial stance, it has become a leading ] group within ]. | |||
| ''Chronicles'' has had close ties to the ] movement.''<ref name=":02" />''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Prince |first=K. Michael |title=Rally 'round the Flag, Boys! South Carolina and the Confederate Flag. |publisher=University of South Carolina Press |year=2004 |isbn=9781570035272 |location=United States |pages=54}}</ref>''<ref name=":2" />'' The ] (SPLC) said in 2017 that ''Chronicles'' "caters to the more intellectual wing of the ] movement".<ref name=":2" /> | |||
| ==History== | |||
| The magazine was founded in 1976, soon after the Institute's establishment earlier that year. Originally known as ''Chronicles of Culture'', the magazine was published by ] and ]. 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 ], another project of the Rockford Institute. | |||
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| In the first years since inception in 1977, the magazine was an ] bi-monthly called ''Chronicles of Culture'', edited by ] (1920–85), pen name of Jan Andrzej Stanislaw Kowalski, a Polish novelist and co-founder of the ] who had previously written for '']''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E5DF1738F931A15750C0A963948260 | title=Leopold Tyrmand, 64, Editor Who Emigrated From Poland | work=]| date=1985-03-22 | access-date=2015-01-19 | author=Obituary }}</ref> | |||
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| In its first decade, the magazine grew to some 5,000 subscribers, according to ].<ref name="Wayback machine link">, '']'' ()</ref> | |||
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| The magazine became a monthly publication in 1982. In 1984, ] joined as managing editor. Fleming, who had been a co-founder of '']'' magazine, brought ] views to ''Chronicles''.''<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Sebesta |first=Edward |title=Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction |last2=Hague |first2=Euan |last3=Beirich |first3=Heidi |publisher=University of Texas Press |year=2009 |isbn=9780292779211 |pages=29–33}}</ref>'' | |||
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| By 1989 the subscription list had grown to nearly 15,000. Fleming published right-wing authors like ], ], ], and ] As the ] broke up at the end of the ] and nationalism rose there and in ], some articles in ''Chronicles'' argued that the United States too would need to disintegrate by ethnicity.''<ref name=":02" />'' ''Chronicles'' "churned out regular anti-immigrant pieces, attacking Latin American and Southeast Asian immigration on the basis of race, culture, national identity and populist defense of the white working class", according to Joseph Lowndes.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lowndes |first=Joseph |title=A Field Guide to White Supremacy. |publisher=University of California Press |year=2021 |editor-last=Belew |editor-first=Kathleen |location=United States |pages=276 |chapter=From Pat Buchanan to Donald Trump |editor-last2=Gutierrez |editor-first2=Ramon A.}}</ref> | |||
| The magazine’s political influence reached its zenith in 1992 when prominent conservative journalist and politician ] ran for president. His failed candidacies in 1996 and 2000 paralleled ''Chronicles''’ drop in subscribers in the 1990s from nearly 15,000 to about 6,000. | |||
| Joseph Scotchie, who has written for ''Chronicles'', described it in 1999 as emphasizing anti-intervention in foreign policy, anti-globalism, and aversion to mass immigration.<ref>''PaleoConservatives: New Voices of the Old Right'', by Joseph Scotchie, 1999, pgs. 1 - 75.</ref> In 2000, ] of '']'' called ''Chronicles'' "right-leaning" and wrote, "There are few publications more cerebral". He described a ''Chronicles'' article criticizing the finances of ], who was then considering a ] presidential campaign.<ref>]. "", '']'', 25 February 2000. Retrieved 8 September 2019.</ref> Historians in the 2000s described writers associated with ''Chronicles'' as "Neo-Agrarian conservatives"<ref name=":1" /> revering Southern beliefs.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Winchell |first=Mark Royden |title=Reinventing the South: Versions of a Literary Region. |publisher=University of Missouri Press |year=2006 |isbn=9780826265098 |location=United States |pages=118}}</ref> | |||
| In the 2000s, the magazine ran into severe financial difficulties. According to its own account, it received a large donation of “several million dollars” by Hannelore Schwindt, a native German who had married a Texan, in her will in 2008.<ref name=":0">By its own account in the Aaron Wolf obituary: "Scott Richert related a story that began with Aaron receiving in late 2006 an article submission from Egon Tausch entitled Gott Mit Uns. It described the history and subculture of German immigrants in Texas. ... The article appeared in the August 2007 edition. A few weeks later, Hannelore Schwindt, a native German who had married a Texas German, sent a small donation to Chronicles. When she died a year and a half later, her will left the magazine several million dollars."{{Cite web |date=June 2019 |title=Aaron D. Wolf: A Man of Faith and Family |url=https://chroniclesmagazine.org/in-memoriam/aaron-d-wolf-a-man-of-faith-and-family/ |access-date=2023-09-14}}</ref> The executive editor at the time was Aaron D. Wolf, who died in 2019.<ref name=":0" /> | |||
| ] (SPLC) described ''Chronicles'' in 2017 as "a publication with strong neo-Confederate ties that caters to the more intellectual wing of the white nationalist movement",<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=October 2, 2017 |title=Meet Jessica Vaughan, the anti-immigrant movement's representative at tomorrow's Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on DACA |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/02/meet-jessica-vaughan-anti-immigrant-movement%E2%80%99s-representative-tomorrow%E2%80%99s-senate-judiciary |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=] |language=en}}</ref> and in another article said it was "controversial even among conservatives for its racism and anti-Semitism".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Garrett Hardin |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/garrett-hardin |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=] |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| ] is a longstanding editor for foreign affairs.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/foreign-affairs-editor-for-chronicles-magazine-srdja-trifkovic-predicts-that-following-croatias-accession-to-the-european-union-eu-last-month-there-will-be-no-further-enlargement-for-many-years-to-come-219412441.html|title=Foreign affairs editor for Chronicles magazine, Srdja Trifkovic|date=August 13, 2013|agency=PR Newswire}}</ref> In 2021, Gottfried was appointed as Interim-Editor and he has stayed in this position until today.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}} | |||
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| * ] 1977–1985<ref name=b>{{cite web | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E5DF1738F931A15750C0A963948260 | title=Leopold Tyrmand, 64, Editor Who Emigrated From Poland | work=]| date=1985-03-22 | access-date=2015-01-19 | author=Obituary }}</ref><ref name="Wayback machine link"/> | |||
| * ] 1985–2021 | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:00, 7 January 2025
US paleoconservative political magazine
 July 2007 cover | |
| Editor | Paul Gottfried |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founded | 1977; 48 years ago (1977) |
| Country | United States |
| Website | chroniclesmagazine |
Chronicles is a U.S. monthly magazine published by the Charlemagne Institute and associated with paleoconservative views. Its full current name is Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. It was founded in 1977 by the Rockford Institute. Today, the journal is published by the successor organization Charlemagne Institute. Since 2021, Paul Gottfried is the editor-in-chief.
Chronicles has had close ties to the neo-Confederate movement. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said in 2017 that Chronicles "caters to the more intellectual wing of the white nationalist movement".
History
In the first years since inception in 1977, the magazine was an anticommunist bi-monthly called Chronicles of Culture, edited by Leopold Tyrmand (1920–85), pen name of Jan Andrzej Stanislaw Kowalski, a Polish novelist and co-founder of the Rockford Institute who had previously written for The New Yorker.
In its first decade, the magazine grew to some 5,000 subscribers, according to E. Christian Kopff.
The magazine became a monthly publication in 1982. In 1984, Thomas Fleming joined as managing editor. Fleming, who had been a co-founder of Southern Partisan magazine, brought neo-Confederate views to Chronicles. By 1989 the subscription list had grown to nearly 15,000. Fleming published right-wing authors like Sam Francis, Clyde N. Wilson, Paul Gottfried, and Chilton Williamson Jr. As the Soviet Union broke up at the end of the Cold War and nationalism rose there and in Eastern Europe, some articles in Chronicles argued that the United States too would need to disintegrate by ethnicity. Chronicles "churned out regular anti-immigrant pieces, attacking Latin American and Southeast Asian immigration on the basis of race, culture, national identity and populist defense of the white working class", according to Joseph Lowndes.
The magazine’s political influence reached its zenith in 1992 when prominent conservative journalist and politician Patrick J. Buchanan ran for president. His failed candidacies in 1996 and 2000 paralleled Chronicles’ drop in subscribers in the 1990s from nearly 15,000 to about 6,000.
Joseph Scotchie, who has written for Chronicles, described it in 1999 as emphasizing anti-intervention in foreign policy, anti-globalism, and aversion to mass immigration. In 2000, James Warren of The Chicago Tribune called Chronicles "right-leaning" and wrote, "There are few publications more cerebral". He described a Chronicles article criticizing the finances of Donald Trump, who was then considering a Reform Party presidential campaign. Historians in the 2000s described writers associated with Chronicles as "Neo-Agrarian conservatives" revering Southern beliefs.
In the 2000s, the magazine ran into severe financial difficulties. According to its own account, it received a large donation of “several million dollars” by Hannelore Schwindt, a native German who had married a Texan, in her will in 2008. The executive editor at the time was Aaron D. Wolf, who died in 2019.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described Chronicles in 2017 as "a publication with strong neo-Confederate ties that caters to the more intellectual wing of the white nationalist movement", and in another article said it was "controversial even among conservatives for its racism and anti-Semitism".
Srđa Trifković is a longstanding editor for foreign affairs. In 2021, Gottfried was appointed as Interim-Editor and he has stayed in this position until today.
Editors
- Leopold Tyrmand 1977–1985
- Thomas Fleming 1985–2021
- Paul Gottfried (acting) since 2021
References
- ^ Murphy, Paul V. (2003). The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought. United Kingdom: University of North Carolina Press.
- Hawley, George (2017). Making Sense of the Alt-Right. United States: Columbia University Press.
- Whalen, Eamon (June 28, 2023). "Breitbart exposed a right-winger's racist texts. How did we even get here?". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- Dougherty, Michael Brendan (2016-01-19). "How an obscure adviser to Pat Buchanan predicted the wild Trump campaign in 1996". The Week. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- Editorial Team – Chronicles, https://chroniclesmagazine.org/editorial-team/
- ^ Sebesta, Edward; Hague, Euan; Beirich, Heidi (2009). Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction. University of Texas Press. pp. 29–33. ISBN 9780292779211.
- Prince, K. Michael (2004). Rally 'round the Flag, Boys! South Carolina and the Confederate Flag. United States: University of South Carolina Press. p. 54. ISBN 9781570035272.
- ^ "Meet Jessica Vaughan, the anti-immigrant movement's representative at tomorrow's Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on DACA". Southern Poverty Law Center. October 2, 2017. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
- Obituary (1985-03-22). "Leopold Tyrmand, 64, Editor Who Emigrated From Poland". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-01-19.
- ^ "A brief history of Chronicles" by E. Christian Kopff, First Principles Journal (Wayback machine link)
- Lowndes, Joseph (2021). "From Pat Buchanan to Donald Trump". In Belew, Kathleen; Gutierrez, Ramon A. (eds.). A Field Guide to White Supremacy. United States: University of California Press. p. 276.
- PaleoConservatives: New Voices of the Old Right, by Joseph Scotchie, 1999, pgs. 1 - 75.
- James Warren. "Chronicles Trumps Donald's Aspirations", The Chicago Tribune, 25 February 2000. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- Winchell, Mark Royden (2006). Reinventing the South: Versions of a Literary Region. United States: University of Missouri Press. p. 118. ISBN 9780826265098.
- ^ By its own account in the Aaron Wolf obituary: "Scott Richert related a story that began with Aaron receiving in late 2006 an article submission from Egon Tausch entitled Gott Mit Uns. It described the history and subculture of German immigrants in Texas. ... The article appeared in the August 2007 edition. A few weeks later, Hannelore Schwindt, a native German who had married a Texas German, sent a small donation to Chronicles. When she died a year and a half later, her will left the magazine several million dollars.""Aaron D. Wolf: A Man of Faith and Family". June 2019. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
- "Garrett Hardin". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
- "Foreign affairs editor for Chronicles magazine, Srdja Trifkovic". PR Newswire. August 13, 2013.
- Obituary (1985-03-22). "Leopold Tyrmand, 64, Editor Who Emigrated From Poland". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-01-19.