Author Archives: Patrick J. Buchanan

The Bystander President

What the AP, IRS, and Benghazi scandals have in common: Obama’s “indolence, indifference and incompetence.”

Where Must Americans Die?

If we aren’t willing to send troops, we have no vital interest in a foreign conflict. Syria fails the test.

The Heretic at Heritage

Jason Richwine, the young conservative scholar who co-authored the Heritage Foundation report on …

Rubio’s Plan to Shrink the Republican Vote

Immigration reform could be a death blow to the Republican Party

War Criminals in the Syrian Opposition?

The UN’s revelations should put to rest any lingering sentiment for intervention.

Unholy Globalization

The pope decries global capitalism’s impact on workers, and it’s hollowed out the U.S. economy too.

Where’s Congress’s ‘Red Line’?

U.S. intervention in Syria risks empowering radicals who hate us.

How America Can Deal With Militant Islam

Fewer wars and better immigration controls are the only sensible policy.

Did the Brothers Tsarnaev Fail?

“Whatever they thought they could ultimately achieve, they’ve already failed,” says President …

Will the GOP Commit Suicide by Amnesty?

During President Eisenhower’s first term, 60 years ago, the United States faced an …

Is Christianity Homophobic?

Priests and pastors marched for civil rights. Will they march against gay marriage?

The War on Gun Owners

Attacks from abroad—Pearl Harbor, 9/11—have united us. Yet domestic atrocities lately seem …

Why Are Workers Giving Up?

That America created only 88,000 jobs in March, less than half the number …

How to Stop the Korean War

“If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be …

Cyprus’s Silver Lining

Bailing in the rich and reckless may be rapacious, but it beats bailing them out.

Can One Nation Have Two Moralities?

Same-sex marriage reveals a divide about what it means for America to be good.

Who Killed the New Majority?

The GOP sealed its own fate with decades of support for war and immigration.

No Containment, No Peace

The Senate’s hawks want the U.S. to commit to joining an Israeli attack.

Saddam Hussein’s Revenge

America won a ruinous victory at a cost of trillions of dollars and thousands of lives.

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