By Patrick J. BuchananCenturies before William James coined the phrase, men have sought a "moral equivalent of war," some human endeavor to satisfy the jingoistic lust of man, without the carnage of war.For some, the modern Olympic Games have served the purpose, with the Cold War rivalry for medals between the United States and the Soviet Union, and, lately, between America and Continue reading...
Is Tribalism the Future?
Friday - April 8, 2011 at 4:37 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"This is a far, far away country about which we know very little," said Neville Chamberlain in 1938 as he declined to take his country to war over Adolf Hitler's claim to the Sudetenland.Indeed, Chamberlain knew almost nothing of Czechoslovakia, inside whose borders, set at the Paris peace conference of 1919, dwelled 7 million Czechs, dominant over 3.25 million Continue reading...
The Wars of Tribe and Faith
Friday - March 19, 2010 at 12:20 am
By Patrick J. BuchananWhen the Soviet Union disintegrated, most Americans likely had never heard of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan.Yet the ethnonationalism of these Asian peoples, boiling to the surface after centuries of tsarist and communist repression, helped tear apart one of the great empires of history.There swiftly followed the collapse of Yugoslavia.Yet, Continue reading...
Globalism vs. Ethnonationalism
Friday - January 30, 2009 at 12:54 am
By Patrick J. BuchananStanding before the Siegessaule, the Victory Column that commemorates Prussia's triumphs over Denmark, Austria and France in the wars that birthed the Second Reich, Barack Obama declared himself a "citizen of the world" and spoke of "a world that stands as one."Globalists rejoiced. And the election of this son of a white teenager from Kansas and a black academic from Continue reading...
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