ABSTRACT
The chapter focuses on familiar themes: trade, taxes, abortion, the environment, euthanasia, urban problems, and drugs. Important political movements in American history are often inspired or abetted by modest-circulation journals of opinion, which in turn are expected to address controversial issues and take stands in a far bolder style than anything daily newspapers or middlebrow weeklies would imagine. Obvious examples are the influence the New Republic had on the New Deal and National Review's role in shaping the Goldwater movement. Chronicles, the flagship publication of the Old Right, published by the Rockford Institute in Rockford, Illinois, had earlier made waves by calling for restrictions on immigration into the United States. Old Rightists, including its Chapel Hill graduates, would maintain that the late 1960s, for all their turmoil, represented the last time in America when young people could receive a truly rigorous, worthwhile education.
