by Patrick J. Buchanan - May 15, 1998"Lo, all our pomp of yesterday is one with Nineveh and Tyre!" So wrote Rudyard Kipling in "Recessional," his 1897 poem penned at the peak of the British empire for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.Two decades later, in 1918, a fateful year for Germany, the great historical pessimist Oswald Spengler produced "The Decline of the West." On the eve Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - May 12, 1998To any with a nodding acquaintance of history, this nation is taking an incredible gamble. When Spain, Holland, and Britain began to import what they once produced, and rely on finance and trade for their prosperity, not manufacturing and production, terminal decline set in. By 1917, free-trade Britain, blockaded, almost went under for lack of the food Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - May 8, 1998"How does this guy survive?"As I learned on an April book tour, that question perplexes and puzzles. How does the president continue to ride so high in public approval, despite revelations that would end the career of a college or corporate president? How? A few reflections.First, Bill Clinton is a lame-duck president in his last term, not a Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - May 4, 1998"The real divisions of our time," writes the scholar Christian Kopff, "are not between left and right but between nations and the globalist delusion." Thus, we all have a stake in the experiment to create a giant artificial nation called the "United States of Europe."Why artificial? Because, unlike France, Germany and Italy, the European Union Continue reading...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - May 4, 1998"The real divisions of our time," writes the scholar Christian Kopff, "are not between left and right but between nations and the globalist delusion." Thus, we all have a stake in the experiment to create a giant artificial nation called the "United States of Europe."Why artificial? Because, unlike France, Germany and Italy, the European Union Continue reading...