We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.

We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.

Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

Donald Trump very clearly said America first. That is a traditional right wing, but also very isolationist. That takes us back to the era of the 1920s, when there were immigration restrictions, and also to the isolationism before World War II.

Pat Buchanan has emerged as the prophet and forerunner of a real economic nationalism on the right, and Donald Trump is now its tribune. This is not movement ideology which is all about limited government, the power of free markets and also internationally - globalism.