American Decline Is a State of Mind

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

We are hearing of all sorts of reasons why the United States is doomed to decline. Continue reading “American Decline Is a State of Mind”

The Ten-Step Reset Regimen for the President

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

I offer a ten-step healing program for our president in the spirit of our therapeutic age. Continue reading “The Ten-Step Reset Regimen for the President”

It Cannot Be That NASA Has Nothing Better To Do

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

NASA chief Charles Bolden, an impressive former Marine Corps major general and astronaut, recently waxed eloquent about his tripartite mission at the space agency he was entrusted with by President Obama. Continue reading “It Cannot Be That NASA Has Nothing Better To Do”

Obama Fails to Square the Illegal-Immigration Circle

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

There was very little new in the president’s speech — certainly not his tired hope-and-change trope of blending legal and illegal immigration (“The scientific breakthroughs of Albert Einstein, the inventions of Nikola Tesla, the great ventures of Andrew Carnegie’s U.S. Steel and Sergey Brin’s Google — all this was possible because of immigrants”). Continue reading “Obama Fails to Square the Illegal-Immigration Circle”

A Successful Trifecta

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

Light amid Darkness

It is crazy to think that going back from Centcom to forces commander in Afghanistan is any sort of “demotion” for Petraeus, who quite naturally needed some sort of respite after the ordeal of endless 20-hour days in Iraq. Continue reading “A Successful Trifecta”

Obama’s New Take on Partisanship

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

One of President Obama’s strangest complaints is that there are too many in Congress who act, well, like former senator Obama. Continue reading “Obama’s New Take on Partisanship”

Think About It!

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

1. Some vice presidential wisdom: most might now think it to be safer to go hunting with Dick Cheney than to be in a hotel room with Al Gore. Continue reading “Think About It!”

Interview with Blog4History

by Victor Davis Hanson

www.blog4history.com

B4H: As you stated in your book The Father of Us All war is rarely the result of miscommunication or misunderstanding. Continue reading “Interview with Blog4History”

Afghanistan Agonistes

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

The growing consensus is that the United States and its NATO allies cannot prevail in their aim of creating a stable constitutional government in Afghanistan, free of radical Taliban insurrectionists who will facilitate terrorism beyond their borders and seek to reinstitute their medieval theocracy.  Continue reading “Afghanistan Agonistes”