Is Turkey Lost to the West?
Not long ago, a democratizing Turkey, with the second-largest army in NATO, appeared on track to join the European Union. That's not likely now, or perhaps ever. ...
About: Patrick J. Buchanan
Posts by Patrick J. Buchanan
Is a Korean Missile Crisis Ahead?
While the United States cannot back down, it is difficult to reconcile a second Korean war with our America first policy. Which is why some of us have argued...
The Beltway Conspiracy to Break Trump
The president has reason to be enraged. For what is afoot is a loose but broad conspiracy to break and bring him down, abort his populist agenda, and overturn...
It’s Trump’s Party, Now
Before the largest audience of his political career, save perhaps his inaugural, Donald Trump delivered the speech of his life. And though Tuesday's address may be called moderate, even inclusive,...
Is Secession a Solution to Cultural War?
A new federalism — a devolution of power and resources away from Washington and back to states, cities, towns and citizens, to let them resolve their problems their own way and...
Is a Trump-Putin Detente Dead?
The epidemic of Russophobia makes it almost impossible to pursue normal relations. Indeed, in reaction to the constant attacks on them as poodles of Putin, the White House seems...
The Deep State Targets Trump
When Gen. Michael Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser, Bill Kristol purred his satisfaction, "If it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump...
Is the Left Playing with Fire Again?
To those who lived through that era that tore us apart in the '60s and '70s, it is starting to look like "deja vu all over again." ...
Trump Must Break Judicial Power
When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are — usurpers and petty tyrants. And if there is...
Moral Supremacy and Mr. Putin
If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our...
The Coming Clash With Iran
When Gen. Michael Flynn marched into the White House Briefing Room to declare that "we are officially putting Iran on notice," he drew a red line for President Trump....
The First Firestorm
That hysterical reaction to the travel ban announced Friday is a portent of what is to come if President Donald Trump carries out the mandate given to him by...
What Trump’s Wall Says to the World
The idea of a permanent barrier between our countries goes to the heart of the divide between our two Americas on the most fundamental of questions. Who are we? What...
Trump: America for the Americans!
As the patriotic pageantry of Inauguration Day gave way to the demonstrations of defiance Saturday, our new America came into view. We are two nations now, two peoples. ...
New President, New World
The old order is passing away. Treaties and alliances dating from the Cold War are ceasing to be relevant and cannot long be sustained. Economic patriotism and ethnonationalism, personified by...
Reagan and Trump: American Nationalists
What is the common denominator of both the Reagan landslide of 1980 and Trump's victory? Both candidates appealed to American nationalism. ...
Iran Nuclear Deal — Alive or Dead?
Though every Republican in Congress voted against the Iran nuclear deal, "Tearing it up ... is not going to happen," says Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations...
Is Liberal Democracy an Endangered Species?
Yet why does America's great export, liberal democracy, which appeared to be the future of the West if not of mankind at the Cold War's end, now appear to...
Barack Backhands Bibi
By abstaining on that Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal and invalid, raged Bibi Netanyahu, President Obama "failed to protect Israel...
Europe’s Future — Merkel or Le Pen?
Right-wing and anti-immigrant parties are succeeding in Europe for a simple reason. Mainstream parties are failing in the first duty of government — to protect the safety and security of the...