The Paradoxes of the Boston Bombings

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Al-Qaedism

A certain American (or for that matter Westernized) resident or citizen — usually male, almost always young, born a Muslim, prone to guilt over temporary secularization or Westernization, as often (or more so) from Pakistan, a Russian Islamic province, the Balkans, Iran, the Philippines, or Africa as from the Arab Middle East, usually failing in American society, always absorbed within American popular culture and guilty over such absorption — at some moment channels his own sense of failure into radical Islam. Continue reading “The Paradoxes of the Boston Bombings”

North Korean Mythologies

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Much of what is written about the North Korean crisis seems to me little more than fantasy. Let us examine the mythologies. Continue reading “North Korean Mythologies”

Margaret Thatcher and the Death of Feminism

by Bruce S. Thornton

FrontPage 

The death of Margaret Thatcher will no doubt generate much deserved recognition and discussion of her historical significance. Continue reading “Margaret Thatcher and the Death of Feminism”

The Islamist Pull

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

Although information is still too sketchy to draw any comprehensive conclusions (other than that the Boston killings are not, as recently suggested, fall out from sequestration, the NRA, lack of gun control, climate change, right-wing tea-party zealots, etc.), there emerges a familiar profile to the suspects that we have seen before.  Continue reading “The Islamist Pull”

The Dangers of Politically Inspired Moral Outrage–From Sandy Hook to What Next?

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

It is a bad idea to demonize your opponents with epithets such “shameful” and “lying,” given that the case was not made that proposed gun-control legislation would have prevented a Sandy Hook. Continue reading “The Dangers of Politically Inspired Moral Outrage–From Sandy Hook to What Next?”

Iran’s North Korean Furture

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

The idea of a nuclear Iran — and of preventing a nuclear Iran — terrifies security analysts. Continue reading “Iran’s North Korean Furture”

Confessions of a Counter-Revolutionary

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

“Counter-revolutionary” is an apt term for these days: President Obama has promised to make a fundamental transformation, a veritable revolution in American society and culture. Continue reading “Confessions of a Counter-Revolutionary”

After Obama

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

We can imagine what lies ahead in 2017 — no matter the result of either the 2014 midterm elections or the 2016 presidential outcome. Continue reading “After Obama”

Krugman’s California Dreaming

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

It is rare, even in the case of Paul Krugman, to read a column in which almost everything that is stated is either wrong or deliberately misleading. But his recent take on California’s renaissance is pure fantasy. Continue reading “Krugman’s California Dreaming”

America in the Age of Myth

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

We live in a mythic age — but mythic in the sense of made-up.

The Coastal Aristocrat

In the last thirty years, I have probably spoken 200 times at a coastal university of some sort, most of which were on the Eastern seaboard. Continue reading “America in the Age of Myth”