Chronicles (magazine)
Chronicles is a U.S. monthly magazine published by the Charlemagne Institute and linked to paleoconservatism. It began in 1977 as Chronicles of Culture, an anticommunist journal edited by Leopold Tyrmand. It became a monthly in 1982. In 1984 Thomas Fleming became managing editor and brought neo-Confederate views to the magazine. By 1989 its subscriptions reached about 15,000, and it published right-leaning writers such as Sam Francis, Clyde Wilson, Paul Gottfried, and Chilton Williamson Jr.
Chronicles has had close ties to the neo-Confederate movement. The Southern Poverty Law Center described it in 2017 as a publication with strong neo-Confederate ties that caters to the more intellectual wing of the white nationalist movement and noted it can be controversial for racism and anti-Semitism.
Politically, the magazine is known for anti-immigration and anti-intervention stances. Some articles argued for disintegration of the United States by ethnicity as nationalist ideas rose after the Cold War. Subscriptions declined in the 1990s after Patrick Buchanan’s presidential campaigns, dropping from about 15,000 to around 6,000. Journalists and scholars have described Chronicles as anti-globalism and anti-immigration, with some later calling its writers Neo-Agrarian conservatives who admired Southern traditions.
Chronicles faced significant financial difficulties in the 2000s but received a large bequest in 2008. Srđa Trifković has been a longtime editor for foreign affairs, and Paul Gottfried took on the role of interim editor in 2021, continuing today. Notable contributors have included Gottfried, Taki Theodoracopulos, Robert Weissberg, Catharine Savage Brosman, and Trifković.
Beyond politics, Chronicles has been recognized as a forum for cultural and intellectual debate and has drawn attention in national press for its scholarly approach.
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