Katrinization

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

There has been a lot of noise about the oil plume and the proper responsibility of government, but the real lesson is that, during Bush’s two terms, the media began to hold presidents culpable for many things that used to be attributed to tragedy, and also for things that are in large part the proper domain of local and state governments.  Continue reading “Katrinization”

Twin Disasters

The strange attitude of the administration to immigration and debt.

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

The Wages of Multiculturalism

How strange that the president of Mexico, while a guest on the lawn of the White House, would attack the laws of a U.S. state, while his own country’s immigration laws and policies in relation to Central America have never approached American tolerance. Continue reading “Twin Disasters”

America 101 with Dean Obama

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

America Is Now a Campus, and Obama Is Our Dean

This is the strangest presidency I have seen in my lifetime. Continue reading “America 101 with Dean Obama”

History Down the Danube

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Nuremberg: Triumph of Will

A German remarked on our Tour 2010 that he found it odd that, given all the graffiti one sees, there is never any defacement on the great stone stage at Nuremberg (patterned by Albert Speer after the Pergamon altar) that is immortalized in so many film clips of Hitler screaming to the masses in the 1930s. Continue reading “History Down the Danube”

Reflections on Small Town America

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Kingsburg, California, is a sort of small town that modernism forgot, at least by the measure of the usual landscapes of the Central Valley. Continue reading “Reflections on Small Town America”

Marinestan

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

HBO’s 10-part series on the Pacific campaign of World War II just ended. That story of island-hopping was mostly about how the old breed of U.S. Marines fought diehard Japanese infantrymen face-to-face in places like Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Guam and Okinawa. Continue reading “Marinestan”

The Art of Seaborne Humiliation

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

A tiny flotilla of “peace ships” sets out to run an Israeli blockade of the Gaza coast. Continue reading “The Art of Seaborne Humiliation”

Death of the Postmodernist Dream

Obama’s dream of a new world order has died a quiet death.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

In just a few months the brave new dream world as we knew it has died — but with a whimper, not a bang. Continue reading “Death of the Postmodernist Dream”

What Our Media Taught Me

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

I’ve been over here in Europe for about ten days, getting a different perspective on our illustrious media and how it is handling the various Obama “troubles.” Continue reading “What Our Media Taught Me”