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Don't blame me for warring on Iraq -- or Iran
In 2003 I, Pat Buchanan and my paper, the Pittsburgh Trib, were among the few sensible voices to oppose going to war in Iraq. Today we'd be just as much…
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Guns, Ammo & Gays
Sports Afield and the Advocate -- magazines for different kinds of men. My weekly take on America's news, culture and ideas -- from exactly 30 years…
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Time defends its corporate mother
Bob Dole attacked Time-Warner for making movies that caused the moral decline of America. My weekly take on America's news, culture and ideas -- from…
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Susan Luttner's Russian tragedy
When the Lutheran pastor went to Russian in 1994 and adopted two beautiful girls from an orphanage she was a happy mother. Three years later her heart…
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A mother's crusade
In 1995 I was thrown into the troubled world of foreign adoptions by an angry mother who wanted to know why her adopted Romanian baby had so many…
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Class of 2000, 1995 and 1996 editions
In 1989 Post-Gazette editor John Craig came up with the good idea of having reporters track 21 Northgate kids who'd become the Class of 2000 a decade…
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The night I ambushed Thomas Sowell
It wasn't always easy getting to interview the great economist, but it was always worth it. Larry Elder is urging President Trump to give Sowell, 94, a…
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May 2025

New Perspective Quarterly throws stones at the media elite
Oliver Stone's smart NPQ was interested in values and political debate between left and right -- and it worked. My weekly take on America's news…
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When 'think magazines' had clout
In 1992 what the New Republic, National Review, the Nation and their cousins had to say about politics and policy actually mattered. Today, serious…
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William F. Buckley Jr. is back in the news
Sam Tanenhaus' long-awaited mega-bio of conservative icon Bill Buckley will be out soon. Tanenhaus was interviewed this week at great length by Andrew…
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Remembering JFK's secret health woes
Joe Biden and Woodrow Wilson aren't the only presidents who hid their serious health problems from the public with the help of dishonest or partisan…
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Mark Murphy, jazz singer
In 1995 Murphy, at age 63, was still traveling the world and showing off the vocal skills that brought him respect from his peers but never made him…
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