Breakup of the West?
The European half of Trump's trip should be taken as a fire-bell-in-the-night warning: Shape up, Europe, or you may find yourselves on your own when it comes to the defense of...
About: Patrick J. Buchanan
Posts by Patrick J. Buchanan
After the Confederates, Who’s Next?
Today, the men we were taught to revere as the great captains, explorers, missionaries and nation-builders are seen by many as part of a racist, imperialist, genocidal enterprise, wicked men who...
Rosenstein Joins the Posse
A debilitating and potentially dangerous time for President Trump has now begun, courtesy of his deputy attorney general. ...
Comey & The Saturday Night Massacre
Where Nixon decapitated his Justice Department and shut down the special prosecutor's office, Trump simply fired an FBI director who agreed that Trump had every right to do so. ...
What Is America’s Goal in the World?
We have lost control of our destiny. We have lost the freedom our Founding Fathers implored us to maintain — the freedom to stay out of wars of foreign counties on faraway...
Nixon and Trump, Then and Now
In many ways, the two men could not have been more different. Yet the "mess" Trump inherited bears striking similarities to Nixon's world in 1969. ...
How Berkeley Birthed the Right
In 1966, Ronald Reagan would beat Berkeley like a drum in his run for governor, calling the campus, "a haven for communist sympathizers, protesters and sex deviants." ...
Nixon’s Revenge: The Fall of the Adversary Press
Saturday's White House Correspondents Association dinner exposed anew how far from Middle America our elite media reside. ...
The Rise of the Generals
Has President Donald Trump outsourced foreign policy to the generals? So it would seem. ...
Is Macron the EU’s Last Best Hope?
For the French establishment, Sunday's presidential election came close to a near-death experience. As the Duke of Wellington said of Waterloo, it was a "damn near-run thing." ...
Is Democracy in a Death Spiral?
When George W. Bush declared that the peoples of the Middle East should decide their future in democratic elections, Lebanon chose Hezbollah, the Palestinians chose Hamas, the Egyptians the Muslim Brotherhood....
War Cries Drown Out “America First”
The promise of a Trump presidency — that we would start looking out for our own country and own national interests first and let the rest of the world solve, or...
Will Christianity Perish in Its Birthplace?
Truth be told, it is in part because of us that Christianity is on its way to being exterminated in its cradle. ...
Is Trump Enlisting in the War Party?
By firing off five dozen Tomahawk missiles at a military airfield, our "America First" president may have plunged us into another Middle East war that his countrymen do not want to...
Nixon, LBJ and the First Shots in the Judges’ War
The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court — a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by...