by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In the last three months, we’ve been reduced to something like the ancient Athenian mob — with opportunistic politicians sometimes inciting, sometimes catering to an already angry public. Continue reading “American Mob Rule”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
After outlining some “bad” trends — the conservative abandonment of budgetary restraint, the new liberal-Wall-Street nexus, the rise of therapeutic excuse-making for substandard behavior — I now offer three “ugly” trends. Continue reading “The Ugly–Part Two”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
In the spirit of optimism, let’s review some good, some bad, and some downright ugly things about this present age. I’ll give three examples of each. For today, here’s the “bad.” Later this week, I’ll post the “ugly,” and then on the weekend the “good.” Continue reading “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly–Part One”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
When it comes to our complex economy, President Barack Obama would do well to heed the physician’s ancient commandment to first “do no harm.” Continue reading “Dr. Obama: First, Do No Harm”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Why are so many Americans so depressed about things these days? It is perhaps not just the economy. Continue reading “Thoughts About Depressed Americans”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
I confess I don’t know all that much about the theory of economics, and have done some unwise things in the strict financial sense the last thirty years — remodeled an ancient family farm house that will never be appraised at what was sunk into it, both farmed and rented out a 40-acre Thompson seedless vineyard whose returns usually did not pay the property taxes, irrigation taxes, infrastructure upkeep, and depreciation—and in unthinking fashion kept up my modest monthly 401(k) contributions through the height of inflated Wall Street stock prices. I could go on, but will leave at that. Continue reading “The “Depression” for Us Idiots”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
What hope and change would all of us, conservatives and liberals alike, welcome from President Obama? Here are some suggestions, surreal and serious, trivial and quite important. Continue reading “Can’t We All Agree?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
President Bush was ridiculed today by critics of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility when he suggested that his administration no longer was incarcerating “unlawful combatants,” but was instead in the process of renaming them as mere “detainees.” Continue reading “Bush Did It”
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
Why do some Muslims become suicide bombers or “martyrs”? Continue reading “Jihad, Martyrdom, and the Torments of the Grave”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Anatomy of vero possumus
It is odd that after five weeks we can pretty much see the next four years: Continue reading “Yes, We Can If They Did It and We Are Liked Now”