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contra substack, @chroniclesmag columnist

Jul 16, 2021, 10 tweets

Digging through the archives of @ChroniclesMag with original copies of each issue going back to the 1970s, found this neat mailer with words of praise from Ronald Reagan and Tom Wolfe

Russell Kirk, Thomas Fleming, Samuel Francis in one issue

"Banana Republicans"

Lmao

Based anti communism lineup: Lew Rockwell, Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis, Paul Gottfried, George F. Kenan ("X Article"), John Lukacs, Thomas Fleming

Chronicles was GDP trolling and doing the "line go up" meme before memes were a thing

The March 1996 issue of Chronicles carried Sam Francis' "From Household to Nation" essay on the Middle American populism of Pat Buchanan. This was the essay Rush Limbaugh read on air to explain the appeal of Donald Trump to people early on. It is more relevant even after Trump

Having drinks with Paul Gottfried rn this is surreal

Very first issue of Chronicles magazine on the left, and the July 1994 issue that carried the famous "Anarcho-Tyranny, U.S.A." essay

Found this cool pamphlet with a very prescient critique of the media by Chronicles founder Leopold Tyrmand

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