By Patrick J. Buchanan For the French establishment, Sunday’s presidential election came close to a near-death experience. As the Duke of Wellington said of Waterloo, it was a “damn near-run thing.” Neither candidate of the two major parties that have ruled France since Charles De Gaulle even made it into the runoff, an astonishing repudiation […]
30 March 2017 
Votes: 4.65 Stars!
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Is Putin the ‘Preeminent Statesman’ of Our Times?
Thursday - March 30, 2017 at 8:35 pm
Votes: 4.65 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan “If we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as the preeminent statesman of our time. “On the world stage, who could vie with him?” So asks Chris Caldwell of the Weekly Standard in a remarkable essay in […]
Is Turkey Lost to the West?
Monday - March 13, 2017 at 8:11 pm
Votes: 4.77 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Not long ago, a democratizing Turkey, with the second-largest army in NATO, appeared on track to join the European Union. That’s not likely now, or perhaps ever. Last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan compared Angela Merkel’s Germany to Hitler’s, said the Netherlands was full of “Nazi remnants” and “fascists,” and suggested […]
27 February 2017 
Votes: 4.86 Stars!
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Lavrov vs. McCain: Is Russia an Enemy?
Monday - February 27, 2017 at 8:48 pm
Votes: 4.86 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan The founding fathers of the Munich Security Conference, said John McCain, would be “be alarmed by the turning away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism.” McCain was followed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who called for a “post-West world order.” Russia has “immense potential” […]
20 February 2017 
Votes: 4.82 Stars!
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Is a Trump-Putin Detente Dead?
Monday - February 20, 2017 at 10:38 pm
Votes: 4.82 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J Buchanan Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals. He saw the surging power of American nationalism at home, and of ethnonationalism in Europe. And he embraced Brexit. While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from […]
Reagan and Trump: American Nationalists
Monday - January 16, 2017 at 9:20 pm
Votes: 4.80 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Since World War II, the two men who have most terrified this city by winning the presidency are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. And they have much in common. Both came out of the popular culture, Reagan out of Hollywood, Trump out of a successful reality TV show. Both possessed the […]
Is Liberal Democracy an Endangered Species?
Thursday - January 5, 2017 at 11:48 pm
Votes: 4.68 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan “As we begin 2017, the most urgent threat to liberal democracy is not autocracy,” writes William Galston of The Wall Street Journal, “it is illiberal democracy.” Galston’s diagnosis is not wrong, and his alarm is not misplaced. Yet why does America’s great export, liberal democracy, which appeared to be the future […]
