Culture War
In the 1990s, the GOP Got a Hard Push to the Right
By Michael Bobelian – The Washington Post In the long run, history will validate Donald Trump’s stand on a border wall,” Patrick Buchanan, the former Nixon and Reagan White House aide and Republican presidential candidate, wrote in 2019. “Why? Because mass migration from the global South … is the real …
What Matters Most to Nations and Peoples?
Their greater fear is not of Putin’s Russia but of an EU superstate whose dominance leads inexorably to the decline and disappearance of distinct ethnic nations. To the leaders of Hungary and Poland and the traditionalist and populist right-wing parties of Europe, nationality matters more than political systems. Speaking in …
Is Biden Right? Does the Left Own the Future?
There is another reason Biden would like to force Republicans to identify their goals. Naming them would reveal the divisions inside the GOP on priorities and open Republicans up to the kind of attacks the GOP is mounting against Biden’s agenda. Before he appeared at his first solo news conference …
Who Decides What Kids Should Be Taught?
Do parents have no right to object if the tenets of critical race theory — that America is shot through with “systemic racism,” that whites are privileged from birth and blacks oppressed — are taught as truth about the country to which they have given their loyalty and love? Virginia …
US Embraces a Diversity China Fears
“Our diversity is our strength.” But is that cliché true? Where is the scientific, historical or empirical evidence for the proposition that the greater the religious, racial, tribal and ethnic diversity of a nation, the stronger it becomes? To put it mildly, this is not a universally held belief. …
Do We Not Have Enough Enemies?
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s sister issued this threat… “We take this opportunity to warn the new U.S. administration trying hard to give off powdered smell in our land that if it wants to sleep in peace for the coming four years, it had better refrain from causing a …
Populism’s Prophet: A Chat with Pat Buchanan
Buchanan: All the anti-Trump groups, their hope is that they’re going to help bring down Trump and elect Joe Biden. They believe history is going to record they did a wonderful thing. I think they’re sorely mistaken. By Atilla Sulker – Modern Age, a publication of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute …
The Real World Reasserts Itself
If black lives matter, where is Black Lives Matter? Rarely in these stories of shootings and killings does one read that the dead were the victims of rogue cops or white supremacists. Since the death of George Floyd beneath the knee of a cop in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, the …