America’s Unsustainable Empire
How long can this country, with its shrinking share of global GDP, sustain its expanding commitments to confront and fight all over the world? ...
About: Patrick J. Buchanan
Posts by Patrick J. Buchanan
Why the Authoritarian Right Is Rising
The democracy worshippers of the West cannot compete with the authoritarians in meeting the crisis of our time because they do not see what is happening to the West as a...
Trump: Prisoner of the War Party?
The War Party that Trump routed in the primaries is capturing and crafting his foreign policy. ...
Is Trump Standing Down in Syria?
Emotions should not be allowed to overrule what the president has thought and expressed many times: While the outcome of Syria's civil war may mean everything to Assad, and much to...
Has the War Party Hooked Trump?
With his Sunday tweet that Bashar Assad, "Animal Assad," ordered a gas attack on Syrian civilians, and Vladimir Putin was morally complicit in the atrocity, President Donald Trump just painted himself...
Syrian Showdown: Trump vs. the Generals
If U.S. troops do remain in Syria, the probability is high that Trump, like Presidents Bush and Obama before him, will be ensnared indefinitely in the Forever War of the Middle...
How Trump’s Presidency Will Be Judged
Where Trump stood out starkly from his GOP rivals in 2016 was on his uniquely Trumpian agenda to put America and Americans first. ...
Does the Pope Believe in Hell?
"Pope Declares No Hell?" So ran the riveting headline on the Drudge Report of Holy Thursday. ...
Is Trump Assembling a War Cabinet?
What is Trump, who assured us there would be no more stupid wars, thinking? Truman and LBJ got us into wars they could not end, and both lost their presidencies. Eisenhower...
Will the Deep State Break Trump?
The Trump White House is behaving as if it were the prospective target of a coup d'etat. And it is not wrong to think so. ...
Did Putin Order the Salisbury Hit?
Before we set off on Cold War II with Russia — leading perhaps to the shooting war we avoided in Cold War I — let's try to get this one right....
Is the GOP Staring at Another 1930?
Republicans lately congratulating themselves on a dominance not seen since 1928, might revisit what happened to the Class of 1928. ...
Globalists and Nationalists: Who Owns the Future?
The problem of the internationalists is that the vision they have on offer — a world of free trade, open borders and global government — are constructs of the mind that...
Why Is the GOP Terrified of Tariffs?
We should tax foreign-made goods and use the revenue, dollar for dollar, to cut taxes on domestic production. The idea is not to keep foreign goods out, but to induce foreign...
Fatal Delusions of Western Man
"We got China wrong. Now what?" ran the headline over the column in The Washington Post. ...