Our Battered American

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

I am meeting a few battered Americans these days. There are not many left, but those that are seem to sound alike. Yes, I think I am beginning to understand Mr. Battered American, and he sounds tired and a bit like this. Continue reading “Our Battered American”

Pause and Take a Deep Breath

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Five Easy Pieces

I. “Bush did it!”

Sec. Clinton went abroad this week and immediately, and yes, gratuitously, blamed Bush. Continue reading “Pause and Take a Deep Breath”

Ancient Wisdom: Depression, Recession, Downturn…Whatever

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

My grandfather once said something to me around 1970 that I have never forgotten. He was born in my house in 1890 (or rather, I in his) — twenty years after his grandmother built the present home. Continue reading “Ancient Wisdom: Depression, Recession, Downturn…Whatever”

The Audacity of Irony

“Hope and change” meet reality.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

We have seen irony before, when the moralist Jimmy Carter chastised us with sermons about our paranoid, inordinate fear of Communism and our amoral unconcern with human rights, even as the dividends of his policies were the Soviets in Afghanistan and the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran — and even greater global misery than before. Continue reading “The Audacity of Irony”

Hardly the Best and Brightest

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

Most historians agree that earthquakes, droughts or barbarians did not unravel classical Athens or imperial Rome. Continue reading “Hardly the Best and Brightest”

Consider the Source

Jihad has Islamic, and non-Islamic, roots.

by Raymond Ibrahim

Weekly Standard

Review of The Mind of Jihad by Laurent Murawiec (Cambridge, 350 pp.) Continue reading “Consider the Source”

Foreign Policy as Magical Thinking

by Bruce S. Thornton

FrontPageMagazine.com

President Obama’s foreign policy team is built around one key idea: the neglect of diplomacy by President Bush’s “cowboy” unilateralism has damaged American prestige, alienated our allies, and worsened our problems abroad, particularly with the Islamic jihadists. Continue reading “Foreign Policy as Magical Thinking”

More on the New Horizon

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Such a Strange Malady

A strange thing, this Obama worship (cf. the New York Times op-ed on Sunday where the columnist imagined having sexual relations with Obama) and Bush hatred (cf. the Will Farrell Broadway show trashing Bush, and showing images of his purported penis). Continue reading “More on the New Horizon”

Been There, Done That: Policy in the Middle East

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

With much fanfare, President Barack Obama announced a new effort to end the endless Israeli-Palestinian struggle — by naming a brand-new Middle East envoy, former Sen. George Mitchell. Continue reading “Been There, Done That: Policy in the Middle East”

The Apocalyptic Style

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

The Problem

Following the speaker’s prediction of 500 million jobs lost a month, Secretary of Energy Chu now warns there will be no more vineyards in California soon, indeed, no more agriculture at all as we know it. Continue reading “The Apocalyptic Style”