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Patrick J. Buchanan

Patrick J. Buchanan

Patrick J. Buchanan was a senior advisor to presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, and three times ran for president. His most recent book is Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World.

Elections

Democrats, Not ‘Democracy,’ at Risk Today

Patrick J. Buchanan

"Make no mistake -- democracy is on the ballot for us all." So declaiming in his Union St...

Russia Watch

Putin’s Narrowing Options

Patrick J. Buchanan

A desperate Vladimir Putin is a dangerous Vladimir Putin, and there are signs Putin's situ...

District of Corruption

How Liberal Elites Detest Middle America

Patrick J. Buchanan

Speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser in 2008, Barack Obama sought to explain the relucta...

International Affairs

Is ‘Autocracy’ America’s Mortal Enemy?

Patrick J. Buchanan

In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared to the nati...

Home Front

How, When, Do We Come Together Again?

Patrick J. Buchanan

When 30 FBI agents showed up at Mar-a-Lago to cart off boxes of documents, it was an autho...

Taipei, Taiwan

International Affairs

Is Taiwan’s Independence Worth War?

Patrick J. Buchanan

When a man knows he is about to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderf...

International Affairs

China: Pelosi Trip to Taiwan a Provocation

Patrick J. Buchanan

When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi added to the itinerary of a valedictory trip throug...

Elections

New York Times to Biden — Time to Go!

Patrick J. Buchanan

When President Joe Biden retired in Rehoboth Beach on Saturday night, he likely did not ex...

Home Front

Latest Symptoms of a Disintegrating Nation

Patrick J. Buchanan

In Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster, the tale is told that if you appr...

Deep Thoughts

Are All Men Created Equal?

Patrick J. Buchanan

Ideology is political religion, said the conservative sage Russell Kirk. And what is the ...

President Biden

Elections

Will Midterms Be Biden’s Last Hurrah?

Patrick J. Buchanan

For half a decade now, America's media elite have been obsessed with former President Dona...

Russia, Golf of Finland

International Affairs

Why Would US Give a War Guarantee — to Finland?

Patrick J. Buchanan

Seeing Russia invade Ukraine, historically neutral Finland has undergone a late conversion...

Home Front

Are Biden Democrats Holding a Losing Hand?

Patrick J. Buchanan

"Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand." In the movie classic "Cool Hand Luke," the convi...

Emmanuel Macron

Europe

The French Center Holds — In a World Coming Apart

Patrick J. Buchanan

"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." So wrote William Butler Yeats in the wake of...

Issue of the Century

‘Open Borders’ Biden Is Remaking America

Patrick J. Buchanan

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Gover...

International Affairs

Message From Ukraine — Nukes Do Deter

Patrick J. Buchanan

When he arrived at Christ the Savior Cathedral to pay his respects to the ultra-nationalis...

International Affairs

Is Global ‘Democracy’ America’s Mission?

Patrick J. Buchanan

"In the battle between democracy and autocracy, democracies are rising to the moment, and ...

Russia Watch

Is Ukraine’s Partition Zelenskyy’s Fate?

Patrick J. Buchanan

"It's time to meet, time to talk ... time to restore territorial integrity ... for Ukraine...

Russia Watch

Is There a Peace Deal Putin and Zelensky Can Accept?

Patrick J. Buchanan

In an interview with Reuters, Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman ...

International Affairs

US Policy: Cheer Ukrainians On — and Keep Us Out!

Patrick J. Buchanan

After Friday's NATO summit refused to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, President Volo...

Vladimir Putin

International Affairs

Did We Provoke Putin’s War in Ukraine?

Patrick J. Buchanan

When Russia's Vladimir Putin demanded that the U.S. rule out Ukraine as a future member of...

Political Truths

Is Biden Right? Does the Left Own the Future?

Patrick J. Buchanan

Before he appeared at his first solo news conference of 2022, President Joe Biden knew he ...

Elections

By the Numbers, a Failing President

Patrick J. Buchanan

If the left believed that draping the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, around the neck of for...

International Affairs

Russia Is Not the Great Rival; China Is

Patrick J. Buchanan

While all facts are true, not all facts are relevant. And what are the relevant facts in ...

Home Front

Biden Holds a Losing Hand

Patrick J. Buchanan

As President Joe Biden's poll numbers sank this fall, and the presidentially ambitious in ...

International Affairs

Playing With Fire on Russia’s Borders

Patrick J. Buchanan

Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko has cleared out the encampment at his border cros...

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