Are Our Mideast Wars Forever?
After 4,500 U.S. dead, scores of thousands wounded and a trillion dollars sunk, our 15-year war in Iraq could end with a Shiite-dominated Baghdad aligned with Tehran. ...
About: Patrick J. Buchanan
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Is Liberalism a Dying Faith?
Equality, diversity, democracy — this is the holy trinity of the post-Christian secular state at whose altars Liberal Man worships. But the congregation worshiping these gods is shrinking. ...
Is War With Iran Now Inevitable?
With his declaration that the Iran nuclear deal is not in the national interest, President Donald Trump may have put us on the road to war with Iran. ...
Is Trump the Heir to Reagan?
To never-Trumpers this is pure blasphemy. Yet the similarities are there. ...
Trump Embraces the Culture War
Call them "deplorables" if you will, but Trump does seem to relish going out to defend the views, values and beliefs of the people who put him where he...
The Dead Soul of Stephen Paddock
In Stephen Paddock, the conscience was dead. He was a dead soul, a moral nihilist, a post-Christian man in a post-Christian age, a monster. ...
Moment of Unity in a Disintegrating World
A massacre of Americans like that in Las Vegas may bring us together briefly. But what holds us together when issues of race, religion, ethnicity, culture, history and politics —...
Judge Moore & God’s Law
Judge Roy Moore believes that man-made law must conform to the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," as written in Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. ...
Will NFL Demand Respect for Old Glory?
The question NFL owners are going to have to answer soon with a definitive "yes" or "no" is this: Do players, before games, have a right, as a form...
Trump — American Gaullist
If a U.S. president calls an adversary "Rocket Man ... on a mission to suicide," and warns his nation may be "totally destroyed," other ideas in his speech will...
Who Truly Imperils Our Free Society?
Who are the ones shouting down speakers? Who violently disrupts political rallies, on campuses and off? Who engages in mob violence after almost every police shooting of a black...
A “Read-My-Lips” Moment for Trump?
Trump's capitulation, if that is what turns out to be, calls to mind George H. W. Bush's decision in 1990 to raise the Reagan tax rates in a deal...
Tribalism Marches On!
Tribalism appears to be doing to the Bush New World Order what it did to Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union. ...
Trump Dumps the Do-Nothing Congress
Donald Trump is president today because he was seen as a doer not a talker. Among the most common compliments paid him in 2016 was, "At least he gets...
Should Japan and South Korea Go Nuclear?
By setting off a 100-kiloton bomb, after firing a missile over Japan, Kim Jong Un has gotten the world's attention. What else does he want? Almost surely not war...
What Harvey Wrought
Though the country has appeared united since the storm hit, it is not likely to remain so. Soon, the cameras and correspondents will go home, while the shelters remain...
Can the GOP’s Shotgun Marriage Be Saved?
Seven months into the Trump presidency, the promise of a new Republican era has receded. It is not because Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have proven to be such...
What Still Unites Us?
What makes our future appear problematic is that what once united us now divides us. While Presidents Wilson and Truman declared us to be a "Christian nation," Christianity has...
Is Trump’s Agenda Being Eclipsed?
War is the health of the state, but the death of empires. Is it now time for the American empire to end? ...
America’s Second Civil War
While easy for Republicans to wash their hands of such odious elements as Nazis in Charlottesville, will they take up the defense of the monuments and statues that have...