Chronicles is a U.S. monthly magazine published by theCharlemagne Institute and associated withpaleoconservative views.^[1][2][3][4] Its full current name isChronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. It was founded in 1977 by theRockford Institute. Today, the journal is published by the successor organization Charlemagne Institute. Since 2021,Paul Gottfried is the editor-in-chief.^[5]

Chronicles

July 2007 cover
Editor	Paul Gottfried
Frequency	Monthly
Founded	1977; 48 years ago (1977)
Country	United States
Website	chroniclesmagazine.org

Chronicles has had close ties to theneo-Confederate movement.^[6][7][8] TheSouthern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said in 2017 thatChronicles "caters to the more intellectual wing of thewhite nationalist movement".^[8]

In the first years since inception in 1977, the magazine was ananticommunist bi-monthly calledChronicles of Culture, edited byLeopold Tyrmand (1920–85), pen name of Jan Andrzej Stanislaw Kowalski, a Polish novelist and co-founder of theRockford Institute who had previously written forThe New Yorker.^[9]

In its first decade, the magazine grew to some 5,000 subscribers, according toE. Christian Kopff.^[10]

The magazine became a monthly publication in 1982. In 1984,Thomas Fleming joined as managing editor. Fleming, who had been a co-founder ofSouthern Partisan magazine, broughtneo-Confederate views toChronicles.^[6] By 1989 the subscription list had grown to nearly 15,000. Fleming published right-wing authors likeSam Francis,Clyde N. Wilson,Paul Gottfried, andChilton Williamson Jr. As theSoviet Union broke up at the end of theCold War and nationalism rose there and inEastern Europe, some articles inChronicles argued that the United States too would need to disintegrate by ethnicity.^[6]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.^[11]

The magazine’s political influence reached its zenith in 1992 when prominent conservative journalist and politicianPatrick J. Buchanan ran for president. His failed candidacies in 1996 and 2000 paralleledChronicles’ drop in subscribers in the 1990s from nearly 15,000 to about 6,000.

Joseph Scotchie, who has written forChronicles, described it in 1999 as emphasizing anti-intervention in foreign policy, anti-globalism, and aversion to mass immigration.^[12] In 2000,James Warren ofThe Chicago Tribune calledChronicles "right-leaning" and wrote, "There are few publications more cerebral". He described aChronicles article criticizing the finances ofDonald Trump, who was then considering aReform Party presidential campaign.^[13] Historians in the 2000s described writers associated withChronicles as "Neo-Agrarian conservatives"^[1] revering Southern beliefs.^[14]

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.^[15] The executive editor at the time was Aaron D. Wolf, who died in 2019.^[15]

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describedChronicles in 2017 as "a publication with strong neo-Confederate ties that caters to the more intellectual wing of the white nationalist movement",^[8] and in another article said it was "controversial even among conservatives for its racism and anti-Semitism".^[16]

Srđa Trifković is a longstanding editor for foreign affairs.^[17] In 2021, Gottfried was appointed as Interim-Editor and he has stayed in this position until today.^{[citation needed]}

• Leopold Tyrmand 1977–1985^[18][10]
• Thomas Fleming 1985–2021
• Paul Gottfried (acting) since 2021

• Official website