Peter Van Buren's Blog

Harvard Conservative Mag Suspended for Hitler Comments

The Harvard Salient, one of the lone conservative voices on one of the most liberal of campuses, was suspended from publication after language echoing a Hitler speech appeared in an article. The bigger story is one of a collision between defenders of free inquiry and the boundaries that define expression in elite institutions. It comes […]

New Law Needed to Combat the Surveillance Deep State

Surveillance powers granted to the Deep State allow the FBI and others to spy on Americans as a method of control. Those worried about a slip into authoritarianism must look past whomever is in the White House at any one time and see what new technology and old laws has allowed us to become. The […]

No Kings Marches are Just Memes, Empty as Social Media “Content”

I’m behind on the news. Did the No Kings marches across America finally change everything? Did Trump vanish, Greta ascend, and democracy restore itself? I actually swung by the local No Kings march. A lot of the crowd were seniors, almost all white in our blue state, decked out in tie-dye for the women, grey […]

State with Toughest Gun Control Laws Headed to Supreme Court for Spanking?

It is no surprise Hawaii, with some of the nation’s most restrictive gun laws, now finds itself before the Supreme Court, seeking to defend its position against a challenge that could reshape many states’ approach to firearms. Hawaii has forced on its citizens one of the lowest rates of gun ownership via some of the […]

U.S. Troops Have Invaded American Cities Already!

Earlier this month President Trump and Secretary of War Peter Hegseth met with over 800 senior military leaders. What happened afterward is a sign of our times. The media portrayed the meeting as unprecedented, when in fact such gatherings on a smaller scale are routine. The big takeaway created by the mainstream media was that […]

School Refuses Admission to Whites Citing “Tradition”

Citing “tradition,” a private school refuses admission to whites in favor of anyone who it judges to be a “Native Hawaiian.” But things may change. The group that brought down affirmative action at Harvard in front of the Supreme Court now has its sights set on forcing equal admission policy on Kamehameha Schools in Hawaii. […]

Letter to a Friend Who Now Hates Me

Maybe this has happened to you. An old friend whom I still love and try to respect wrote me The Email. You may have gotten one, or been cornered at a family event, or by a professor. The subject line was “Can’t Wait Any Longer” and the contents blasted me for supporting some of the […]

The Heckler’s Veto Came for Charlie Kirk

A week before it happened, over 1000 students at the university where Charlie Kirk was assassinated signed a petition asking that he be banned from speaking. Many others came to the event hoping to see Kirk shouted down, the Heckler’s Veto. One assassin exercised the ultimate stop to the exercise of free speech, a bullet […]

U.S. Gets Internal Immigration Enforcement for First Time

The millions of illegal aliens resident in the United States got here primarily through two avenues of neglect, exacerbated by a lack of internal immigration enforcement. Here’s how the system works, and what has changed under Trump. Many aliens simply walked in, using the wide-open southern border. The others, perhaps the majority over the years, […]

The Real Cost of Illegal Immigration

A stretch of Roosevelt Avenue running through AOC’s Bronx district is nicknamed “The Market of Sweethearts,” due to the chaotic bazaar of prostitution there. Most workers are illegal aliens from Central America. It is impossible to provide a definitive number of undocumented immigrant sex workers in the United States due to the clandestine nature of […]