Edward Welsch

Executive Editor of @ChroniclesMag. Maker of 80 monthly print issues and counting. Paleoconservative. Former WSJ reporter.

[Peter Brimelow @peterbrimelow]

I remember! Discussed in https://t.co/3JGKV2fBSn

[Peter Brimelow @peterbrimelow]

Incredibly, it looks like the Federal Courts intend to ignore AGAIN our video evidence of NYAG Letitia James thug Rick Sawyer boasting to the ADL that he could get around our First Amendment rights. Only public pressure sways these judges, PLEASE CIRCULATE https://t.co/zPXhQOFMF4

[Edward Welsch @EdwardWelsch]

@ChroniclesMag Read Fleming's 1989 immigration article here: https://t.co/hyZCa1mbUc

[Edward Welsch @EdwardWelsch]

Way back in 1989, the editor of @ChroniclesMag, Tom Fleming, was denounced by the arch neocon Norman Podhoretz as a nativist and a racist for predicting that mass immigration and demographic change would become the biggest threat to the American people.

Some people in the conservative movement are *still* afraid to acknowledge this fact. In his seminal immigration essay "The Real American Dilemma," Fleming made similar arguments @WadeMiller is making now:

[Wade Miller @WadeMiller]

A lot of people seem incapable of understanding the difference between opposition to an individual migrating to the United States and opposition to millions of people migrating to the United States.

Since it’s impossible to get a picture of all people immigrating to the United States, it sometimes becomes necessary to use anecdotal means of representing a large group… like a photo of dozens of people.

The photo Bo French posted isn’t really about those specific individuals; it’s a representation of the observable demographic changes in Texas involving roughly half a million people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh over the past 15 years.

Elements of those populations belong to the roughly 400,000 Muslims who also live in Texas.

That is a lot of people with vastly different cultures, value systems, religions, and political ideologies.

It is ok to observe that and question the wisdom of the policies that have allowed it.

It isn’t an individual assessment; it’s a population-level conversation.

I haven’t even included the other 1 million foreign-born people who have moved to Texas in that time period.

Texans (and Americans) should be able to weigh in on whether adding millions of foreigners into our societies in a relatively short period of time is wise.

Each of those foreigners imports a different culture, and at scale those differences can negatively disrupt the expectations of what value systems and traditions are predominant, supplanting the native culture.

Transplanting 50 million Americans into Mexico City would have massive ramifications on the native cultures and traditions of that city and state, and the people of Mexico have a moral duty to raise objections to their own government facilitating those changes against the interest of their own citizenry.

300 Americans moving to Mexico City is less of a problem.

Texans should have a say in who is being allowed into our communities and at what scale.

Anyone taking issue with that is grasping at woke straws.

[Wade Miller @WadeMiller]

A lot of people seem incapable of understanding the difference between opposition to an individual migrating to the United States and opposition to millions of people migrating to the United States.

Since it’s impossible to get a picture of all people immigrating to the United States, it sometimes becomes necessary to use anecdotal means of representing a large group… like a photo of dozens of people.

The photo Bo French posted isn’t really about those specific individuals; it’s a representation of the observable demographic changes in Texas involving roughly half a million people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh over the past 15 years.

Elements of those populations belong to the roughly 400,000 Muslims who also live in Texas.

That is a lot of people with vastly different cultures, value systems, religions, and political ideologies.

It is ok to observe that and question the wisdom of the policies that have allowed it.

It isn’t an individual assessment; it’s a population-level conversation.

I haven’t even included the other 1 million foreign-born people who have moved to Texas in that time period.

Texans (and Americans) should be able to weigh in on whether adding millions of foreigners into our societies in a relatively short period of time is wise.

Each of those foreigners imports a different culture, and at scale those differences can negatively disrupt the expectations of what value systems and traditions are predominant, supplanting the native culture.

Transplanting 50 million Americans into Mexico City would have massive ramifications on the native cultures and traditions of that city and state, and the people of Mexico have a moral duty to raise objections to their own government facilitating those changes against the interest of their own citizenry.

300 Americans moving to Mexico City is less of a problem.

Texans should have a say in who is being allowed into our communities and at what scale.

Anyone taking issue with that is grasping at woke straws.

[Pertinax @FantinoVienna]

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[John Howting @howtingmi]

Wendell Berry was the 1994 recipient of the Ingersoll Foundation’s T. S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing. His acceptance speech was printed in the June 1995 issue of @ChroniclesMag.

Notable attendees included @alancornett, a good friend of Wendell Berry.

[BlazeTV @BlazeTV]

"What do we do with the situation we've inherited? We did not create the situation. We inherited it."

Paul Gottfried explains to @christopherrufo and @L0m3z that America is locked into the 1960s order and the Right’s choice is simple: fight within it, or keep losing.

[Joe Allen @JOEBOTxyz]

It is an honor to appear in Chronicles again. The magazine one of the last bastions of intellectual excellence in publishing—and they still do print issues!

If you appreciate well thought out writing and tasteful design, you should subscribe.

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A Mass Excommunication and a Mass Migration Photo Op

Pope Leo’s activities over the last week show a Vatican bent on punishing traditional Catholics and pushing left-wing political causes.

Edward Welsch (@EdwardWelsch) writes for Chronicles Online: https://t.co/twPl0X2znq

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Voting, California Style

California’s registration and voting process is dangerously susceptible to fraud and abuse.

Roger D. McGrath writes for the July-August issue of Chronicles: https://t.co/J5CjKkSWsX

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The July-August 2026 Chronicles “AI: The Promise and the Peril” is online and available for subscribers.

In our lead feature this month, Colin Redemer (@RedemTheTimes) explains what “winning” the AI race, for America, entails: https://t.co/M5VxcU7t7Z

Joe Allen (@JOEBOTxyz) warns that Americans must adapt to AI the right way—or risk adopting a new religion of technology: https://t.co/5TMQGYDuxf

Jack Trotter reviews Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Against the Machine,’ in which the author explores the malign evolution of modernity amid technological change: https://t.co/aNnVDuQjgN

John Ehrett (@johnehrett) reviews Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ and explains how this film profoundly distinguishes itself among Spielberg’s other space-alien films: https://t.co/IE7AhVB9WR

Jeremy Carl (@realJeremyCarl) elaborates on Hollywood’s ascendant anti-white politics: https://t.co/t3ppKOBlOK

J. Burden (@_jburden) warns the GOP of its growing generational divide—and the potential consequences: https://t.co/D8beAKxcGr

John Gizzi (@johngizzi) remembers Senator William Borah: https://t.co/YadTfNwROh

And Daniel McCarthy (@ToryAnarchist) remembers the anniversary of George H. Nash’s monumental work chronicling the conservative movement, and then explains how the movement’s next chapters were foretold in the pages of Chronicles: https://t.co/TmIp9I6Qyf

Those features, along with book and film reviews and more, are in the July-August issue, available in full for subscribers here: https://t.co/rSaWeRnxZq

Support our work and subscribe to Chronicles here: https://t.co/eVK2BFyNCA

[Edward Welsch @EdwardWelsch]

Bye! https://t.co/DmlSNbH6AF

[Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt]

It is not enough to ask whether a judge knows the right theory. We need to know whether he will follow it when the pressure comes.

Our nation needs courageous constitutionalists. Judges like Thomas had already stood in the arena and shown they could take the fire.

[Mark Judge @markgjudge]

I reviewed "Alito" by @MZHemingway for @ChroniclesMag I must say she made legal jargon understandable and the story quite interesting. https://t.co/LqmfMTzgKp @Heminator @seanmdav @ProfMJCleveland @instapundit @mirandadevine @ishapiro @HarmeetKDhillon @EdMorrissey @EdDriscoll

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The June 2026 Chronicles “Building the Court of Thomas” is online and available for subscribers.

In our lead feature this month, Sen. Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) explains the importance of courage in evaluating judicial nominees, especially during our present constitutional moment: https://t.co/TMsZfsQH8F

Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) elaborates on the profound impression Clarence Thomas has left on the judiciary by remaining anchored in his originalist jurisprudence: https://t.co/7y3XvCjSbf

Stephen B. Presser reviews Justice Barrett's ‘Listening to the Law’: https://t.co/yhBpD2Janr

Mark Judge (@markgjudge) reviews Mollie Hemingway’s new biography of Justice Samuel Alito: https://t.co/23HFgjI0bB

Chronicles Editor-in-Chief Paul Gottfried warns conservatives not to over-celebrate the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of racial redistricting: https://t.co/PBd9PQUQau

Dr. Lane Scott (@LaneSmithScott) remembers the soon-to-be beatified Bishop Fulton Sheen: https://t.co/2Z53OJvg9W

Paul du Quenoy (president of the @PalmInstitute) reviews Olivier Assayas's ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’: https://t.co/xVjPR0Kcj0

Alexander Riley (@AllThingsRhap) reviews ‘Inevitable Differences,’ by J.E.R. Staddon: https://t.co/dNq45vHBrQ

And, Daniel McCarthy (@ToryAnarchist) reminds conservatives of the enduring relevance of James Burnham: https://t.co/gugRSCSFkY

Those features, along with book and film reviews, and more, are in the June issue, available in full for subscribers here: https://t.co/xWGq6P5Ux3

Support our work and subscribe to Chronicles here: https://t.co/eVK2BFzls8

[Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn]

Paul Gottfried: What the Right Can Learn from the Frankfurt School https://t.co/vClZ41ODLl

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Russia Diminished?

Those who view Russia’s apparent drawdown in its war with Ukraine as a sign of weakness and a signal that there is no longer any danger in provoking the bear betray their ignorance of history.

Srdja Trifkovic writes for Chronicles Online: https://t.co/mytAolKpmI

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Whose Creed? Whose Country?

We should consider the implications and limits of creedal nationalism as we approach the 250th anniversary of our separation from Britain.

Daniel McCarthy (@ToryAnarchist) writes for the May issue of Chronicles: https://t.co/MkFLYiwrhu