HAVE NOT LEFT THE CONFEDERACY BEHIND.
My correctiong blog. https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2020/02/completely-wrong-about-chronicles.html#.XlqxuSieGiM
There has been a merger between the Rockford Institute which publishes Chronicles Magazine and the Charlemagne Institute.
Relevant links.
https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/about/the-rockford-institute/
https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/magazine/
https://charlemagneinstitute.org/
It seems that the Rockford Institute has been acquired by the Charlemagne Institute because they wanted to have a print magazine with some established readership.
The Charlemagne Institute purpose is that they are "Defending and Advancing Western Civilization." Charlemagne was the person who founded a local European empire in the late 8th and early 9th century and for many the founder of modern Europe. Likely this is so. Charlemagne was constantly at war, this was the Early Middle Ages, and so this name selection indicates a military spirit of those who think Westeren Civilization is under attack.
The Charlemagne Institute had this online publication for which they claim a large following in terms of million of page views or something like that. I have no reason to doubt their claims.
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/
Backstory
John Howard founded the Rockford Institute in 1976 which undertook to published Chronicles Magazine. He apparantly had the financial resources to fund the effort. He brough Thomas Fleming in the mid-1980s. Fleming made it into a paleoconservative and neo-Confederate publication. Fleming launched the League of the South in the Chronicles Magazine pages. Howard died in August 2015. Chronicles Magazine circulation had been in servere decline. Fleming retired from Chronicles Magazine in June 2015. From reading accounts it seems that Howard was very much in decline and I speculate that the board of the Rockford Institute saw a change to dump Fleming.
This is the link to the Fleming Foundation.
https://fleming.foundation/
He hasn't given up on the Confederacy. At this website there are links to the Abbeville Institute and Shotwell Publishing.
The Merger and Chronicles Magazine
This has meant some changes for Chronicles Magazine.
Aaron Wolfe who was going to be one of the key players running the magazine suddenly and unexpectedly died. Chilton Wlliamson reportedly decided to leave the magazine.
Williamson has this web presence.
https://www.chiltonwilliamson.com/
On this page he announces that "Articles will now be posted more frequently." https://www.chiltonwilliamson.com/articles/index.html
So I don't think Williamson is going to retire, he just isn't going to be running Chronicles Magazine. I speculate with Aaron Wolfe gone, Chilton Williamson decided he would be there alone and the magazine was going to go in a new direction and he would be kept on but isolated.
On the masthead is Bill Murchison, a person seen in neo-Confederate publications here and there, and Donald Livingston who headed the league of the South Institute and now heads the Abbeville Institute. https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/
The current subscription base has been concerned about the new direction of Chroniclces Magazine so I think Murchison and Livingston will be kept on. However, I think the old Chronicles Magazine, excepting some token articles, is gone. Murchison and Livingston will likely pass on to retirement or just pass on so there isn't any urgent need to have them resign.
I don't think the topic of the Confederacy will be avoided, but it will be only engaged as part of a general rightwing antipathy to losing a white landscape as opposed to being part of any neo-Confederate agenda. There base, the readers of Intellectual Takeout, (don't worry, no heavy meals here, and we are hip I tell you we are hip.), I don't think are that interested in the Confederacy. I think the Confederacy will come up as part of a general antipathy to demands for racial justice and as part of fear of losing a white landscape in general, but not as a specific neo-Confederate agenda. Perhaps there might be a token article or two so they hang onto current subscribers while getting their Intellectual Takeout readers to subscribe.
But as the Intellectual Takeout readers becomes the magazine's base of readers, the prior subscribers of the matgazine will not be needed. After all it there are millions of readers of Intellectual Takeout, with a few percent of them subscribing, they will have several times more readers than Chronicles Magazine ever had before.
They can depend on some Chronicles Magazine subscribers continuing out of habit anyways with an occasional bone thrown them.
As a force for the neo-Confederate agenda, that phase of the Chronicles Magazine existence appears to be over.
Some of the things that happened since the 1990s when Chronicles Magazine was in its heyday is that people now know what neo-Confederacy is and can recognize it. Also, I had for years an online index of the issues, title of the article, one sentence summary, and author. I know people were not happy being known to be in the index. Like with the Southern Partisan, a point came where I suspect people did not want to have Chronicles Magazine on their resume and the association with neo-Confederacy. John Shelton Reed dropped out in the mid-1990s.
So I am happy to consider that I contributed some to their demise.
Am I going to track Chronicles Magazine in the future? Probably at some point in the future I expect to stop tracking them.
What Next?
I think it is time to inform the public about the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. They are still a major force to keep Confederate monuments. The SCV appears to be one of the two significant forces for neo-Confederate ideology. The other one is the Abbeville Institute which they work with.
I think I can be effective in ending their influence in a few years.
I will be expanding my efforts to the racialized landscape in general. For example this page on Fair Park.
http://templeofdemocracy.com/fair-park.html
And this page on the Hatton W. Sumner Court Room in Dallas.
http://templeofdemocracy.com/hatton-w-sumners.html
This is my blog for my efforts to deracialize the Dallas landscape.
https://dallaslandscape.blogspot.com/
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