2011: Out with a Whimper, Not a Bang

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

It proved as hard to break up the bankrupt European Union as it was to create it. Continue reading “2011: Out with a Whimper, Not a Bang”

America’s Two-Front War

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

America has the slows. Sometime about mid-2009 America began changing psychologically. True, to the naked eye, America retained the old hustle and bustle, but in an insidious fashion it began to think a bit differently. Continue reading “America’s Two-Front War”

Oil-Rich America?

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

There is a revolution going on in America. But it is not part of the Tea Party or the loud Occupy Wall Street protests. Continue reading “Oil-Rich America?”

Obama 101

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

In the last three years, the president has taught us a great deal about America, the world, and himself. Continue reading “Obama 101”

Obama’s Economic Quackery

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Sometimes the wrong medicine can make a struggling patient far sicker than he would have been had he been allowed to recover naturally. Western medicine began with the premise that the physician either must know how to cure the patient or simply leave him alone — but above all not make him worse through harmful treatment. Continue reading “Obama’s Economic Quackery”

Obama’s Imaginarium

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

The presidency of Barack Obama is full of funny things that need not follow any sort of logic. Continue reading “Obama’s Imaginarium”

Railing Against Reality

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

Last week, protests broke out again in Europe, from Rome to London. The monthlong Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York have spread. The current unrest follows this summer’s riots in London and flash mob incidents in US cities. Continue reading “Railing Against Reality”

Green, Shovel-Ready Stimulus–100 Years Ago

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

Huntington Lake, Calif. — Our politicians love soaring platitudes followed by little, if any, action. Continue reading “Green, Shovel-Ready Stimulus–100 Years Ago”

The Evidence of a Bankrupt Populism

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

Editor’s Note: These passages are drawn from recent articles on The Corner.

Obama’s Real Legacy

Barack Obama’s cries from the heart as a senator about the possibility of a Bush intervention in Iran being a de facto violation of the War Powers Act have been widely circulated — juxtaposed to his sophistic gymnastics about bombs over Libya not really being much more than “kinetic action” and thus exempt from the Act. Continue reading “The Evidence of a Bankrupt Populism”

Kingdom of Lies

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

I am a subject in a kingdom of lies. At 57, I have grown up with decades of untruth — advanced for the purposes of purported social unity, the noble aim of egalitarianism, and the advancement of a cognitive elite in government, journalism, the arts, and the universities. Continue reading “Kingdom of Lies”