What Is Wisdom?: Sarah Palin and Her Critics

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

They Say/We Say

The debate over Palin is sort of ossified.

The Left continues to ridicule her accent, family, and middling roots. The Right enjoys such authenticity — but enjoys even more the hysteria it incurs in liberals. Continue reading “What Is Wisdom?: Sarah Palin and Her Critics”

Missing Our Moment in Iran

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

Last month, hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest a rigged presidential election. Our president was extremely cautious in his initial criticism of the Iranian government’s fierce crackdown against the protestors. Continue reading “Missing Our Moment in Iran”

Sur-realpolitik

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

The Cap-and-Trade Stampede

It was somewhere around 3-4 years ago that “global warming” suddenly morphed into “climate change” in vernacular speech. Continue reading “Sur-realpolitik”

Obama II vs. Obama I

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

I don’t think it has occurred to the divine ones that the administration now is at odds with the sort of ideology and attitudes Obama himself espoused on the campaign trail. Continue reading “Obama II vs. Obama I”

Thoughts on a Schizophrenic Society

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Such a Prudishly Crass Society

I was watching cable television about 5 PM on a Friday night, channel surfing between commercials on the Western station. Continue reading “Thoughts on a Schizophrenic Society”

Thuggery 101

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

President Barack Obama came into office apparently believing that his non-traditional background, charisma and good intentions could placate dictators hostile to America and ease global tensions. Continue reading “Thuggery 101”

The Armchair Alliance

by Victor Davis Hanson

The New Criterion

Review of Andrew Roberts Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall, & Alanbrooke Won the War in the West (Allen Lane, 673 pp.) Continue reading “The Armchair Alliance”

Standing with Freedom

by Bruce S. Thornton

FrontPage Magazine

Remember when the liberal punditariat sneered at George Bush for putting Iran in the “axis of evil” in his 2002 State of the Union address? Continue reading “Standing with Freedom”

Again, Why the Diffidence?

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

Obama — the Manichean?

Of all the puzzling reasons one can adduce both for Barack Obama recent serial apologies abroad, and now his strange silence about human-rights abuses from Venezuela to Iran, I think one of the most likely is his Manichean notion of world affairs — one also reflected in most of the curricula of our major universities. Continue reading “Again, Why the Diffidence?”

Recollections on a New Age Begun: We’ve All Metamorphosized to a Higher Plane

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Think of the hope and change of just the last six months that have changed all our lives. Continue reading “Recollections on a New Age Begun: We’ve All Metamorphosized to a Higher Plane”