By Patrick J. Buchanan - December 29, 2001 "Economic unity and political unity are twins: one cannot be born without the other following," said Friedrich List, the famed German economist and nationalist. Again and again, history has proven List right. Economic union leads inexorably to political union. The left has always understood this. The right never does, until too late. When Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - December 27, 2001 Two thousand years after the first Christmas, Israeli tanks were firing in Manger Square in Bethlehem and Jewish children were being massacred by suicide-bombers in Jerusalem. The city of Christ's birth and the city of his death were alike awash in hatred. Is peace possible in the Holy Land? If not, endless suffering and ultimate tragedy lie ahead Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - December 21, 2001 When I was a boy, Kensington was a village half an hour north of Chevy Chase Circle where, inside an ice-cold armory, Catholic kids practiced basketball. Montgomery County was a bedroom suburb of D.C. Nothing beyond existed, except for the Rockville drive-in. This fall, both precincts became world-famous as citadels of wacko liberalism. The Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - December 18, 2001 "John M. Culbertson, an economist known for mounting an articulate defense of protectionist economic policy long after the tenets of free trade were de rigueur among his colleagues, died on Sunday, in Madison, Wis. He was 80." So read Sunday's obit in The New York Times, which went on to quote a Culbertson essay in 1986: "The future of the United Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - December 14, 2001 As every schoolchild used to know, the Trojan Horse was the scheme of the "wily Ulysses," one of the Greek warriors besieging Troy. For a decade, the Greeks had failed to capture the great city. In defeat and resignation, they adopted Ulysses' plan. They would build a great wooden horse and leave it outside the city walls, ostensibly as a tribute Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - December 11, 2001 Of all the days that will "live in infamy" in American history, two stand out: Sept. 11, 2001, and Dec. 7, 1941. But why did Japan, with a 10th of our industrial power, launch a sneak attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, an act of state terror that must ignite a war to the death it could not win? Were they insane? No, the Japanese were Continue reading...

By Patrick J. Buchanan - December 7, 2001 With the ouster of the Taliban and eradication of the al-Qaida in Afghanistan, Islamic extremism has sustained a crushing defeat. But what continues to unsettle Americans is that film of Arab and Islamic people, wildly cheering the barbaric atrocities of Sept. 11. Is a war of civilizations coming? Clearly, not a few in the Islamic world and the Continue reading...