Chronicles at one point even had Noam Chomsky writing articles for them. (he claims to be Libertarian, in reality he is very Red)
Thomas Fleming was the editor when I read the magazine. (I learned later that there are 2 well known Thomas Fleming’s. Very different.) At first I thought a lot of it, but that did not last.
I like well informed people, but am not drawn to have much confidence in “intellectuals”. They tend to call my type, “cracker barrel philosophers”.
Imagine being called a cracker?
“Chronicles at one point even had Noam Chomsky writing articles for them.”
I remember that now that you mention it. It was amusing in a way, Chomsky is to the left of Bernie Sanders. He is a legitimately important scholar in the world of linguistics in spite of being a Commie.
I began reading Chronicles while Tyrmand was still there, but most of the time Fleming ran the show. The “other” Thomas Fleming is a very good historian and I highly recommend his book on the forgotten history that led to the Civil War... “A Disease In The Public Mind”... a great read if you’re a student of The Late Unpleasantness.
The ‘cracker’ sobriquet was originally applied to Old South Floridians for the sound the bullwhip made when they were herding cattle. Even today Florida has one of the biggest cattle industries in the country.