The Eternal Lure of Nationalism
Western elites may deplore the return of nationalism. But they had best not dismiss it, for assertions of national and tribal identity appear to be what the future is going to...
About: Patrick J. Buchanan
Posts by Patrick J. Buchanan
Protect Kids or Confiscate Guns?
The anger and anguish of those who lost family or friends in this atrocity is understandable. But passion is not a substitute for thought. ...
Is That Russia Troll Farm an Act of War?
One imaginative Russian troll urged Trumpsters to dress up a female volunteer in an orange prison jump suit, put her in a cage on a flatbed truck, then append the slogan,...
The Motives Behind the Massacre
Nikolas Cruz was a product of broken families. He was adopted. Both adoptive parents had died. Where did he get his ideas of right and wrong, good and evil? Before the...
Is US Being Sucked Into Syria’s War?
Has President Trump thought through where we are going with this deepening commitment in Syria, where we have only 2,000 troops and no allies but the Kurds, while on the other...
Trump — Middle American Radical
President Trump is the leader of America's conservative party. Yet not even his allies would describe him as a conservative in the tradition of Robert Taft, Russell Kirk or William F. Buckley....
Nunes Duels the Deep State
That memo worked up in the Intel Committee of Chairman Devin Nunes may not have sunk the Mueller investigation, but from the sound of the secondary explosions, this torpedo was no...
A Never-Trump Press in Near Panic
Trump-haters in the press may be terrified that the memo may credibly demonstrate that the "Deplorables" were right. ...
Too Many Wars. Too Many Enemies.
Like the Romans, we have become an empire, committed to fight for scores of nations, with troops on every continent, and forces in combat operations of which the American people are...
In a Trump Hunt, Beware the Perjury Trap
If the president's legal team lets Trump sit for hours answering Mueller's agents, they should be disbarred for malpractice. For what Mueller is running here is not, as Trump suggests, a...
A U.S.-Turkish Clash in Syria?
The war for dominance in the Middle East, following the crushing of ISIS, appears about to commence in Syria — with NATO allies America and Turkey on opposing sides. ...
Trump: In Immigration Debate, Race Matters
Trump is saying with words, as he has with policies, that in taking in a million people a year, race, religion and national origin matter, if we are to preserve our...
Little Rocket Man Wins the Round
After a year in which he tested a hydrogen bomb and an ICBM, threatened to destroy the United States, and called President Trump "a dotard," Kim Jong Un, at the gracious...
What Is America’s Mission Now?
Informing Iran, "The U.S. is watching what you do," Amb. Nikki Haley called an emergency meeting Friday of the Security Council regarding the riots in Iran. The session left her and...
Fire Bell in the Night for the Ayatollah
The protests that broke out a week ago and spread and became riots are a fire bell in the night for the Islamic Republic. ...