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Is Dad-Deprivation the Problem, or Is It Poverty, Bad Schools . . . ?pgs. 122-124 The Boy Crisis When we hear that boys without dads do badly in so many ways, we wonder whether the…
S. K. Baskerville Divorce pages 173-178 I receive letters, calls, and email messages almost daily, and they always begin with words like this: “You won’t believe what happened to me.” But I do believe it,…
Firearms At one time, one mark of a gentlemen was the practice and privilege of carrying a sidearm. When the Japanese samurai were forced to give up their exclusive right to carry swords, it marked…
(originally published in the June 2021 issue of Chronicles magazine.) How America went communist.By Stephen Baskerville “All politics is on one level sexual politics.” —George Gilder Extremists break out of the margins and take power when they fool…
By Paul Nathanson Yesterday was a fine spring day. On my way out for the afternoon, I saw some yellow tulips shyly lifting their heads to the sky and the first bright and feathery leaves…
By Paul Nathanson The Great War produced several fine movies during the 1920s and 1930s (before the next war became a topic of greater urgency). Notable among these are Wings (William Wellman, 1927), Sister in…
Fatherhood is one of those remarkable happenings in life that truly exposes a man to himself; his roots grow ever deeper and he roots himself and his child and his family in the gentle caress…
John Lydon – the artist formerly known as “Johnny Rotten” – is, at the moment of writing, 65 years old. When he sang/screamed/cauterwaled for the Sex Pistols, he was about 19 years old. A friend…