Monday, February 09, 2009

Lincoln in the hairlines

The new issue of one of my favorite magazines, Chronicles is now out. This issue is a retrospective on Lincoln. The folks at Chronicles--and the Rockford Institute that publishes it--are paleo-conservatives, so it won't be pretty.

Here are some of the specs:

PERSPECTIVE

Rendering Unto Lincoln
by Thomas Fleming

VIEWS

The Treasury of Counterfeit Virtue
by Clyde Wilson
Abe’s indulgence.

Obama as Lincoln
by Justin Raimondo
Mask and mirror.

Lincolnism Today
by Daniel Larison
The long marriage of centralized power and concentrated wealth.

NEWS

The Financial Crisis
by William J. Quirk
How it happened, and why it is still happening.

REVIEWS

Strippers to the Rescue
by Stephen B. Presser

William J. Quirk: Courts & Congress: America’s Unwritten Constitution

plus

Tom Landess on Russell Kirk’s Eliot and His Age
Matthew Roberts on The Iliad, Herbert Jordan, trans.
Tom Piatak on John Zmirak’s The Grand Inquisitor

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Carolina: The Class of ’59: Intimations of Mortality and Posterity
by Clyde Wilson

VITAL SIGNS

The New Republic: Lincoln and God
by Joseph E. Fallon

COLUMNS

The Bare Bodkin
by Joseph Sobran

Under the Black Flag
by Taki Theodoracopulos

Letter to the Bishop
by Joe Ecclesia

The Rockford Files
by Scott P. Richert

European Diary
by Andrei Navrozov

The American Interest
by Srdja Trifkovic

In the Dark
Frost/Nixon
by George McCartney

The Hundredth Meridian
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY

Seneca Visits Athens
and
Icarus Fell From Heaven
by Joseph O’Brien

ON THE COVER

Cover art by George McCartney, Jr.
Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.

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