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NOTE: In recent days I’ve seen discussion relating to Peter Leithart’s views about immigration. I’m reposting a piece I wrote on the subject in August of 2015. The situation has worsened markedly in the intervening eight years, but Leithart’s views (or at least his public utterances on the matter) are unchanged. OPENING SALVOS “The fact…

Originally written on August 28, 2004 With Where the Right Went Wrong, Pat Buchanan takes aim squarely at the Neoconservatives.   Buchanan thus joins other Paleoconservative and Paleolibertarian authors such as Sam Francis, Paul Gottfried, Justin Raimondo and Joseph Scotchie who have offered up their own analyses, diagnoses, and prescriptions to decapitate the parasitical Neocon host…

Part I of the series. Part II of the series. Founded in the 1820s by Connecticut refugee Titus Bronson, my home town was christened Kalamazoo in 1837 and is located along the Kalamazoo River.  Over the years, Kalamazoo has been known for the products made there. After the Civil War, paper manufacturers began building mills…

The Data Tells The Story Read part 1 of the series here. “Statistical evidence already suggest that the American dream is fading.” –The Wall Street Journal, March 31, 1989 In 2016, Donald Trump announced his candidacy in a meandering speech which is widely remembered for his comments about Mexican immigration.  Immigration was, of course, central to…

Remembering a Lost World Careening deep into middle age and having reared three children to adulthood, I find myself pondering more frequently how the world has changed, making even the recent past a distant and foreign country. I grew up in southwestern Michigan–Kalamazoo to be precise.  Find Detroit and Chicago on a map and draw an…