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The Iceberg Cometh

Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Throughout the Introduction and into the first chapter of Ship of Fools you seem to be seated before a television screen listening to, and watching, Tucker Carlson in his nightly broadcast.

Adieu to the “Adults in the Room”

Srdja Trifkovic

President Donald Trump’s announcement last December 19 that he would immediately withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria (and one-half of the Afghan contingent) is the most important single decision of his presidency.

Throwing Off the Albatross

Justin Raimondo

It came as a bolt of lightning out of the blue. One moment the Trump administration was besieged on all sides. The media were accusing him of treason, and the Democrats, ... were promising multiple investigations.

Lost and Found in America

Christopher Sandford

One Saturday night last summer I found myself sitting on a warm, grassy knoll outside Missoula, Montana, watching a blood-red sun set behind a cup in the hills with the snow-fringed Bitterroot Mountains beyond . . .

A Century of Disorder

Srdja Trifkovic

The Paris Peace Conference opened at the Palace of Versailles 100 years ago (January 18, 1919). It was the most ambitious gathering of its kind in history.

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Britain’s Clean Imperial Conscience
Ralph Berry | January 16, 2019
We are enjoined to partake in a deep sense of unproven guilt for events that occurred before our birth. This is nonsense, but is repeated as if it were divine revelation.
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Is Bolton Steering Trump Into War With Iran?
Pat Buchanan | January 14, 2019
Is Trump looking for a showdown with Iran, which could result in a war that might vault his approval rating, but be a disaster for the Middle East and world economy and do for him what Operation Iraqi Freedom did for George W. Bush?
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Build the Wall, Mr. President
Tom Piatak | January 14, 2019
Securing our southern border is vastly more important to our national security than is nation-building in the Mideast.
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Memo to Trump: Declare an Emergency
Pat Buchanan | January 11, 2019
Mass migration from the global South, not climate change, is the real existential crisis of the West.
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