Tag Archives: Pat Buchanan

Bleh, Sullivan.

Just when I was thinking that Andrew Sullivan must have hit some sort of moral and intellectual bottom by now, I read his retrospective on neoconservatism. It turns out the philosophy was actually a vast Zionist conspiracy: The closer you … Continue reading

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The End of Buchananite Palin

David Bernstein puts to rest the whisper that Palin was a clandestine Buchananite. She supported Steve Forbes in 1999 (as un-Buchanan as you can get), and evidently the only source for the alleged 1995 support, is a vague recollection from … Continue reading

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Defending the Second World War

Here’s a five part Uncommon Knowledge segment featuring a superb pairing of Christopher Hitchens and Victor Davis Hanson, to discuss the new World War II revisionism led by Pat Buchanan. While it’s an entertaining exercise for a Saturday, I’ll warn … Continue reading

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The Tidal Empires of War

(photo: Charles Roffey – Charles & Fred) Someone once said that in Damascus you truly can get a little bit pregnant. It’s a good aphorism, because if you asked the foreign minister of almost any state in the Middle East … Continue reading

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