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. [...]

Romantic Nationalism, Trade, & Moral Contingency

By |2022-10-10T19:42:49-05:00September 20th, 2022|Categories: Adam Smith, Conservatism, Donald Trump, Economics, Free Markets, Free Trade, Nationalism, Pat Buchanan, Political Economy, Wilhelm Roepke|

It is the perennial task of the conservative to disentangle the truth from the weeds of confusion which keep growing up around it. Samuel Francis and Patrick Buchanan have greatly contributed to the present resurgence of conservative elements rising up in America. Whatever political victories may come of their work should certainly be celebrated. “Go [...]

A Response to Pat Buchanan’s “Coming Home at Last”

By |2021-08-20T15:55:42-05:00August 17th, 2021|Categories: Foreign Affairs, Pat Buchanan, Timeless Essays, W. Winston Elliott III, War|Tags: , |

Every empire had security reasons, to go along with economic ones, to justify permanent military occupation. I say this: Kill the terrorists. Destroy their bases. When necessary, go back and do it again. Don’t occupy foreign nations. As the United States pulls its troops out of Afghanistan after a 20-year war, The Imaginative Conservative looks back at [...]

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 [...]

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