America’s First Postmodern Presidency

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Postmodern Truth

One of the chief tenets of postmodernism is relativism — the notion that neither morality nor wisdom is absolute and definable, but instead simply predicated on what those with power and advantage say they are. Continue reading “America’s First Postmodern Presidency”

Who’s To Judge?

Sotomayor and the defense of racial identity as judicial wisdom.

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

When Words Don’t Mean Anything

Rather than an attempt to defend empirically Sotomayor’s suggestion that Latinas are superior, in the judicial sense, to white men, we have been given a variety of postmodern contexts, constructing what she “really” meant: Continue reading “Who’s To Judge?”

The Sotomayor Nomination

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time?

Michelle Obama is now weighing in on the Sotomayor nomination, and I think it will prove a serious political mistake, since she is reverting back to her “me too” campaign mode, in that she emphasizes both race and the anonymous “they” who are not nice or not sufficiently accommodating to the Other. Continue reading “The Sotomayor Nomination”

Reflections on an Age Now Fading . . .

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Goodbye, Europe

We are on our third, and last, leg of this year’s tour, and headed today from Chania, Crete to Athens. Continue reading “Reflections on an Age Now Fading . . .”

The Muslim World Address

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

President Obama has a much-publicized upcoming talk in Cairo that is rather pretentiously packaged as an address to the “Muslim world.” Continue reading “The Muslim World Address”

Israel’s Cuban Missile Crisis–All the Time

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

Why would the Iranian government spend billions of dollars on trying to develop a few first-generation nuclear bombs (as nearly everyone believes is the case) when the country is so poor that it has to ration gasoline? Continue reading “Israel’s Cuban Missile Crisis–All the Time”

Bush Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obama continues to trash Bush in words–but his actions speak louder.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Last July I wrote a column entitled “Barack W. Bush” outlining how candidate Barack Obama was strangely emulating Bush policies — even as he was trashing the president.  Continue reading “Bush Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder”

Wandering Around Europe

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

The Beauty of Europe

One can see why millions of Muslims flock to Europe. Oh, I know it is the economic and political dividends of Western consensual governments and state capitalism that provide such material and spiritual freedom. Continue reading “Wandering Around Europe”

Lost in the Labyrinth of Race

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

The Sotomayor Nomination and the Politics of Racial Identity

One of the unexpected results of the Sotomayor nomination is a refocusing on the politics of racial identity and the fossilized institutions of affirmative action — or the belief that the U.S. government should use its vast power to ensure an equality of result rather than a fairness of opportunity. Continue reading “Lost in the Labyrinth of Race”