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Patrick J. Buchanan says the welfare-happy nations of Europe may soon see their fears materialize as a financial tsunami. Catalyzed by Greece’s imminent debt default, it could trigger a collapse of the European Union and bring about a global depression. Germany is the only nation believed capable of saving the EU, but with a dwindling [...]
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Is America doomed to go of the way of all empires before it? The waning British empire of the 20th century conducted a series of unsuccessful experiments in the Middle East, before America filled in for her in the latter half of the century. None of these have proven successful on a macro level. Leon [...]
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Rick Santorum is crinkling his eyebrows at Rick Perry today, with Santorum letting Perry have it in a discussion with Politico. TAC blogger Daniel Larison examines the unfolding dynamic between the two candidates on foreign policy. Controversy around the push for Palestinian statehood continues, as President Mahmoud Abbas makes a bid to the U.N. for official recognition. [...]
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The poverty rate now sits at 15.1 percent, but 21st-century impoverishment does not entail the destitution of centuries prior. A member of a family below the poverty line can still own a car and a computer, and receive a college education. This may indicate ways in which an increasingly technological society is enriching the quality [...]
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The game of American intervention has been played in nearly one hundred countries across the southern span of the planet. In the Bush years, this swath of the globe was known as the “Arc of Instability.” Yet with the Bush administration long gone, the Obama White House has only only escalated the practice of neoconservative [...]
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Yesterday the October issue of The American Conservative went to press, and it promises to be one of our [most] provocative numbers yet. Start with publisher Ron Unz on “Republicans and the End of White America.” Add an exclusive excerpt from founding editor Pat Buchanan’s powerful new book, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive [...]
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Eagle-eyed readers will already have noticed that The American Conservative is now using TheAmericanConservative.com as our primary URL. Our old one, www.Amconmag.com, will continue to redirect here, so your bookmarks shouldn’t be affected. We’ve debated switching URLs off and on for a few years; until now, Amconmag had held in there by sheer inertia. It [...]
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Pat Buchanan discusses Rick Perry’s calling Social Security a ‘ponzi-scheme’ during the GOP primary debates. Is grandma’s generation, which fought World War II, Korea and the Cold War, more alarmed by Rick Perry’s red-meat rhetoric than by President Obama’s refusal to address the entitlement crisis threatening the fiscal and financial future of the republic? In last [...]
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To declare war on a concept, terror, is to declare an endless, amorphous campaign against something abstract. Ten years after the September 11th attacks, the war continues, though terrorism existed long before that seminal day. We remain embroiled throughout the Middle East, even as al-Qaeda is in decline. In the current issue of TAC, Philip Jenkins [...]
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Tom Enghelhart says it’s time to bury the 9/11 rhetoric. While no one is discounting the tragedy of the attack, if we are to honor the memory of the victims, it’s time to stop exploiting their deaths for a reckless foreign policy and out-of-control defense spending. If September 11th was indeed a nightmare, 9/11 as [...]
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