Is Europe Sailing on the Titanic?

By Patrick J. Buchanan U.S. growth in the first quarter fell to 2.2 percent, a disappointment. But in Europe, that news would have caused general rejoicing. For consider the gathering crisis on the old continent. With negative growth now for six months, Britain has fallen back into recession. "I don't think we're anywhere near halfway through the eurozone crisis," said Prime Minister Continue reading...

Vulture Capitalism or Populist Demagoguery?

By Patrick J. Buchanan "They're vultures that are sitting out there on the tree limb, waiting for a company to get sick, and then they swoop in ... eat the carcass ... and ... leave the skeleton." So Rick Perry colorfully characterized the private equity firm Bain Capital, once run by Mitt Romney. How did Bain prosper? Says Perry: "These companies ... come in and loot the people's Continue reading...

David Cameron’s Finest Hour

By Patrick J. Buchanan Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to veto Germany's demand for a new European fiscal union will define his premiership. More than that, Cameron has raised a banner for patriots everywhere fighting to retain their national independence. With his no vote on fiscal union, Cameron declared to the EU: "British surrenders of sovereignty come to an end here. And Continue reading...

The Conquest of the West

By Patrick J. Buchanan On Oct. 31, the U.N. Population Fund marks the arrival of the 7 billionth person on Earth and raises the population estimate for the planet at mid-century to 9.3 billion people. There is a possibility, says the United Nations, that, by century's end, world population may reach 15 billion. What does this mean for Western civilization? It may not matter, except to Continue reading...

Looking Back at ‘The Good War’

By Patrick J. Buchanan In the early morning hours of Sept. 1, 1939, 72 years ago, the German army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, having received no reply to his ultimatum demanding a German withdrawal, declared that a state of war now existed between Great Britain and Germany. The empire followed the mother country in. The second world Continue reading...

Did Hitler Want War?

by Patrick J. Buchanan On Sept. 1, 1939, 70 years ago, the German Army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, Britain declared war. Six years later, 50 million Christians and Jews had perished. Britain was broken and bankrupt, Germany a smoldering ruin. Continue reading...

How the West Lost the World

by Patrick J. Buchanan Europe, the Mother Continent of Western Man, is today aging and dying, unable to sustain the birth rates needed to keep her alive, or to resist conquest by an immigrant invasion from the Third World. What happened to the nations that only a century ago ruled the world? In "Churchill, Hitler and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the Continue reading...