Ten years ago, Patrick Buchanan threw his hat into the presidential race to challenge George Bush for the Republican nomination. He positioned himself as the true conservative alternative to an establishment phony. Pat had already shown himself a courageous critic of Bush’s tax increase and war on Iraq. It seemed like a good deal: a prominent TV personality fighting the political war against warfare and welfare. But Pat was more than that. Many saw him as the political embodiment of the growing intellectual movement called paleoism, short for paleoconservatism (known for its alleged isolationism and heartland-style defense of localism) and … Continue reading What I Learned From Paleoism