That Bloodbath in the Old Dominion

The day after his “Silent Majority” speech on Nov. 3, 1969, calling on Americans to stand with him for peace with honor in Vietnam, Richard Nixon’s GOP captured the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey. By ...

The Secret History of the 21st Century

The insightful blogger who goes by the moniker Spotted Toad has created a series of charts explaining the 2016 Electoral College results as a result of average home price in each state. The pattern is much the same as it has been in ...

Ideological Tug-of-War

And all at once, a sigh of relief could be heard in boardrooms across the globe. The French presidential election ended not with a bang, or a whimper, but beads of perspiration being wiped off the brows of the global economy's biggest ...

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Vive le Choix

The Fifth French Republic was the creation of General de Gaulle. Contemptuous of what he called the "€œregime of the parties,"€ which saw weak governments come and go and the same politicians return to office through a revolving ...

Will Russiagate Backfire on the Left?

The big losers of the Russian hacking scandal may yet be those who invested all their capital in a script that turned out to based on a fairy tale. In Monday’s Intelligence Committee hearings, James Comey did confirm that his FBI ...

Back to Business

The Electoral College has spoken, and it's full steam ahead for President-to-be Trump. Many foreigners"€”and I daresay a number of Americans too"€”are puzzled by the Electoral College and its survival into modern times. Certainly ...

Eating Humble Pie and Hitler Crow

In last week's column, I wished the Trump camp good luck, while taking great pains to not make a prediction regarding the outcome of the election. In my private life, I was not so coy. I laid down several money bets that Trump would ...

The Sailer Strategy

As the Duke of Wellington more or less said after the Battle of Waterloo, it was a damn close-run thing. But the Trump campaign triumphed using what my editor at VDARE, Peter Brimelow, likes to call the Sailer Strategy. As I explained ...

Hatfield Clan

Revenge of the Yahoos

A fundamental but hugely unacknowledged divide in America is the intergalactically large chasm between urban and rural culture. The city slickers and the country bumpkins might as well live on different planets. Last Tuesday, it was the ...

Democracy Will Survive

This morning (Nov. 1) The Times (London, not New York) had a gloomy leading article. Reflecting on what it described as the "€œdismal choice"€ facing the American electorate, it declared that "€œit would be consoling if this were ...

A Woman Should Vote With Her Husband

This election is going to have unprecedented political infidelity. A good 20 percent of husbands for Trump predict their wife won"€™t vote with them. This is wrong for a number of reasons but the biggie is, a family is supposed to be ...

An Establishment in Panic

Pressed by moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would accept defeat should Hillary Clinton win the election, Donald Trump replied, “I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense.” “That’s ...


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