A Conspiracy of Counterfeiters

By Patrick J. Buchanan"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.""Lenin was certainly right," John Maynard Keynes continued in his 1919 classic, "The Economic Consequences of the Continue reading...

Can Japan Rise Again?

By Patrick J. BuchananWe can thank Providence that the earthquake was not 150 miles closer to Tokyo, else Japan's dead might number in the millions.Prime Minister Naoto Kan calls it the worst crisis since World War II. Yet, horrendous as it is, it does not, thus far, compare with that. For the earthquake dead are not 1 percent of those who perished in World War II.Between 1942 and Continue reading...

Why Are We Still in Korea?

By Patrick J. BuchananThis writer was 11 years old when the shocking news came on June 25, 1950, that North Korean armies had crossed the DMZ.Within days, Seoul had fallen. Routed U.S. and Republic of Korea troops were retreating toward an enclave in the southeast corner of the peninsula that came to be known as the Pusan perimeter.In September came Gen. MacArthur's masterstroke: the Continue reading...

Bring Our Marines Home

By Patrick J. BuchananA month after Germany surrendered in May 1945, America's eyes turned to the Far East, where the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war was joined on the island of Okinawa. Continue reading...

Our Pushover President

By Patrick J. Buchanan"This state visit is ... a terrible mistake," said Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. Continue reading...