About Patrick J. Buchanan

Pat Buchanan is a political commentator, syndicated columnist, politician, and broadcaster. He is the author of many books, including The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization. Mr. Buchanan ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992.

What Is It Now That Conservatives Must Conserve?

By |2023-01-25T10:59:33-06:00January 25th, 2023|Categories: Conservatism, Pat Buchanan, Politics, Russell Kirk, Timeless Essays|

What is the conservative’s role in an America many believe has not only lost its way but seems to be losing its mind? What is it now that conservatives must conserve? In light of the great Patrick J. Buchanan’s just-announced retirement, we are republishing this excellent essay, which first appeared in our pages in 2012. [...]

EU to Orban: Back Gay Rights or Get Out!

By |2023-02-25T14:18:34-06:00July 2nd, 2021|Categories: Foreign Affairs, Homosexual Unions, Pat Buchanan, Viktor Orbán|

What is the source of moral authority for modernity's doctrine that homosexuality is moral, other than some transient ideology, which Russell Kirk reminded us is political religion? What is the source of the morality that teaches same-sex unions are the equal of traditional marriage and any government that does not agree is a bigoted regime [...]

Joe Biden’s Bid to Remake America

By |2021-04-02T14:07:59-05:00April 4th, 2021|Categories: Pat Buchanan, Politics, Presidency|

Make no mistake: Joe Biden is determined to emulate FDR and LBJ and to be remembered as a president who raised federal power to new heights. And once a Western democracy expands central power and control of the nation's resources, it never willingly gives up those gains. If Joe Biden's American Jobs Program, outlined in [...]

Who Really Imperils the Republic?

By |2021-03-05T16:15:10-06:00March 5th, 2021|Categories: Pat Buchanan, Politics|

In the "domestic terrorism" at the Capitol, no protester set off a bomb, toppled a statue, or fired a weapon. Of the four who died that day, all were protesters. My guess, Minneapolis, not Capitol Hill, is where the action will be this spring, and it will not be Proud Boys keeping the cops busy, [...]

Is the Establishment Still Terrified of Trump?

By |2021-01-29T11:01:48-06:00January 29th, 2021|Categories: Donald Trump, Pat Buchanan, Politics, Presidency|

For all the babbling about "democracy" we have heard in recent days, the establishment wants to eliminate the possibility that the people could rise up, and, horror of horrors, elect Donald Trump once more. As soon as the Senate received the lone article of impeachment accusing President Donald Trump of "incitement of insurrection" in the [...]

Biden’s America: One Nation or Us Versus Them?

By |2021-01-23T13:45:34-06:00January 22nd, 2021|Categories: American Republic, Civil Society, Joseph Biden, Pat Buchanan, Presidency|

Joe Biden's inaugural address was the most confusing, contradictory and incoherent ever delivered from the steps of the Capitol, reflective of the mind of its author and the state of the Union he now leads. "We have met the enemy and he is us," said Walt Kelly's cartoon character Pogo, half a century ago, about [...]

Exploiting the Capitol Riot to Kill Trump

By |2021-01-15T08:44:19-06:00January 14th, 2021|Categories: American Republic, Donald Trump, Pat Buchanan, Presidency|

What would be the purpose of impeaching a president who hasn't been president for three months?  Answer: A conviction would strip Republicans of the right to reelect the man who got the largest number of votes in their party's history. Donald Trump has stumbled and fallen, and the establishment is not going to let slip [...]

Whither America After the 2020 Election?

By |2020-12-11T11:14:38-06:00December 11th, 2020|Categories: Civil Society, Pat Buchanan, Politics|

Though secession is unlikely, a secession of the heart has already taken place in America. We are two nations, two peoples seemingly separated indefinitely. Can a nation so divided as ours, racially, ideologically, religiously, still do great things together, as did the America of days gone by, to the amazement of the world? When the [...]

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