What Is It We Wish to Conserve?

Tuesday - October 25, 2011 at 12:42 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan A conservative's task in society is "to preserve a particular people, living in a particular place during a particular time." Jack Hunter, in a review of this writer's new book, "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" thus summarizes Russell Kirk's view of the duty of the conservative to his country. Kirk, the traditionalist, though not so famous as Continue reading...

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The Democracy Worshipers

Friday - September 16, 2011 at 4:59 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan "Your people, sir, is ... a great beast." So Alexander Hamilton reputedly said in an argument with Thomas Jefferson. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Hamilton explained: "Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of Continue reading...

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When Dictators Fall, Who Rises?

Tuesday - April 26, 2011 at 12:06 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan One month before the invasion of Iraq, Riah Abu el-Assal, a Palestinian and the Anglican bishop of Jerusalem at the time, warned Tony Blair, "You will be responsible for emptying Iraq, the homeland of Abraham, of Christians." The bishop proved a prophet. "After almost 2,000 years," writes the Financial Times, "Iraqi Christians now openly contemplate extinction. Some Continue reading...

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The End of La Dolce Vita

Friday - May 7, 2010 at 12:33 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Are Europe and America headed to where Athens is today? To answer the question, consider what brought Greece to where she is -- running a deficit of 14 percent of gross domestic product with a debt approaching 100 percent, with Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Great Britain not that far behind. Continue reading...

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Alienated & Radicalized

Tuesday - October 20, 2009 at 12:26 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan In the brief age of Obama, we have had "truthers," "birthers," Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the "Oath Keepers." And who might they be? Continue reading...

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Socialist America Sinking

Friday - July 17, 2009 at 1:07 am

by Patrick J. Buchanan After half a century of fighting encroachments upon freedom in America, journalist Garet Garrett published "The People's Pottage." A year later, in 1954, he died. "The People's Pottage" opens thus: "There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is Continue reading...

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