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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.

Eco-mania

Is Failure Baked in the Cake at Glasgow?

Patrick J. Buchanan

"Colossal Stakes as Leaders Meet to Talk Climate," ran the headline. "The Last Best Hope,...

Europe

Can Poland Be Poland — and Stay in the EU?

Patrick J. Buchanan

"Let Poland be Poland!" That was the call of American conservatives, four decades ago, wh...

Environmental Snafus

Nationalism to Confront Globalism in Glasgow

Patrick J. Buchanan

"Extraordinary, isn't it? I've been hearing all about COP," said the queen to the duchess ...

Sink the New World Order Tax!

Patrick J. Buchanan

Last Friday, in a triumph for transnationalism, 136 nations, including the U.S., agreed to...

Angela Merkel

Europe

The Eclipse of Europe

Patrick J. Buchanan

For centuries up to and including the 20th, Europe seemed the central pivot of world histo...

International Affairs

Are the US and China Stumbling Toward an ‘Islands War’?

Patrick J. Buchanan

In a diplomatic coup, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a deal last week with the U....

Home Front

Who and What Is Tearing the US Apart?

Patrick J. Buchanan

In Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, former President George W. Bush's theme was nat...

Home Front

Bad Moon Rising for Biden — and Us

Patrick J. Buchanan

"April is the cruelest month," wrote T. S. Eliot in the opening line of what is regarded a...

Home Front

Is America Becoming a Failed State?

Patrick J. Buchanan

Suddenly, Sunday, a riveting report came over cable news: The U.S. embassy was urging all...

International Affairs

A Tonkin Gulf Incident in the Gulf of Oman?

Patrick J. Buchanan

A week ago, the MT Mercer Street, a Japanese-owned tanker managed by a U.K.-based company ...

Pathetic Politicians

Why the Left Can’t Let Go of Jan. 6

Patrick J. Buchanan

To understand what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's select committee investigation of the Capi...

Pathetic Politicians

Why Can’t Biden Stop This Invasion?

Patrick J. Buchanan

Article IV of the Constitution addresses the obligations of the federal government to the ...

Middle East Conflict

Is Afghanistan a Failed Mission?

Patrick J. Buchanan

As in Vietnam from 1965 to 1973, the year our prisoners of war came home, America did not ...

Europe

EU to Orban: Back Gay Rights or Get Out!

Patrick J. Buchanan

Respect LBGT rights or get out of the EU, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte instructed Hunga...

Balaklava, Crimea

International Affairs

Boris Johnson Defies Vladimir Putin’s Claim to Crimea

Patrick J. Buchanan

About that clash between a British destroyer and Russian warplanes and warships in the Bla...

The Untold Story

Who Is Really Killing American Democracy?

Patrick J. Buchanan

By a vote of 30-1 in the House, with unanimous support in the Senate, Juneteenth, June 19,...

Senator Manchin

Pathetic Politicians

Joe Manchin: Racist or Profile in Courage

Patrick J. Buchanan

In 1859, Abraham Lincoln related the tale of an Eastern monarch who charged his wise men w...

Foreign Policy

What Is America’s Cause in the World?

Patrick J. Buchanan

"Take away this pudding; it has no theme," is a comment attributed to Winston Churchill, w...

Warshington

Were the Wars Wise? Were They Worth It?

Patrick J. Buchanan

Through the long Memorial Day weekend, anyone who read the newspapers or watched televisio...

Zeitgeist

Does Our Diversity Portend Disintegration?

Patrick J. Buchanan

After nine people were shot to death by a public transit worker, who then killed himself i...

District of Corruption

Did the GOP Just Dodge a Bullet?

Patrick J. Buchanan

When he took the floor of the Senate to reject the Democrats' Jan. 6 Commission, Mitch McC...

Home Front

Are the Halcyon Days Over for Joe Biden?

Patrick J. Buchanan

On taking the oath of office, Jan. 20, Joe Biden may not have realized it, but history had...

Crime and Punishment

Has the Backlash Arrived for Police-Bashing?

Patrick J. Buchanan

Within hours of Saturday's shooting in Times Square where three bystanders, including a 4-...

Racial Politics

Biden vs. Biden on ‘Is America a Racist Country?’

Patrick J. Buchanan

"Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country." So declared Sen. Tim Scott, a Black R...

District of Corruption

Biden Bets the Farm — to ‘Change the World’

Patrick J. Buchanan

Joe Biden may not be a radical socialist, but he is doing the best imitation of one this w...

Washington D.C.

District of Corruption

The DC Statehood Power Grab

Patrick J. Buchanan

"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?" asked President Abraham Lincol...

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