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Daily Round-up: Buchanan on the population explosion, Occupy’s Hollow Core, Realistic Foreign Policy

Patrick J. Buchanan says that the conquest of the West has begun, but it will be done by way of demographic changes throughout the globe. Western mortality rates are greatly outpacing birth rates, expelling the dying breaths of Western culture by mid-century. Meanwhile, in other regions of the world, populations are exploding: What is the […]

Patrick J. Buchanan says that the conquest of the West has begun, but it will be done by way of demographic changes throughout the globe. Western mortality rates are greatly outpacing birth rates, expelling the dying breaths of Western culture by mid-century. Meanwhile, in other regions of the world, populations are exploding:

What is the future of Europe? What is the future of Western man? Houari Boumedienne, Algerian revolutionary and president of his country, predicted it at the United Nations in 1975.

“One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere of this planet to burst into the Northern one. But not as friends. Because they will come in to conquer, and they will conquer by populating it with their children. Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women.”

Rod Dreher agrees with David Mills that the rhetoric of Occupy Wall Street is hollow and devoid of philosophical grounding. The movement remains burrowed into the urban fabric of many American cities, but lacks momentum or substance. Political intellectuals long for the articulate arguments of left-wing intellectualism, as compared to the more watered-down talking points of a left no longer worth engaging in discourse.

Lewis McCrary reports on developments at leading realist foreign policy journal The National Interest, where veteran DC journalist Robert Merry took the editorial reigns in September.

Steven Pinker explores the decline of violence in the modern world, in The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Steve Sailer offers an engaging review.

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