by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Trimalchio’s Bowl
Sometime during the reign of the emperor Nero, the novelist and imperial confidant Petronius wrote a novel about life among the Roman nouveau richein the Bay of Naples. Continue reading “Signs of the Times”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
American reality has been turned upside down in just 20 years. Continue reading “The Loud Passing of the Old Order”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
An evil psychopath, Jared Lee Loughner — a man with no discernible ideology or political affiliation, and declared by those who know him to be both unhinged and unacquainted with contemporary media — shot a US congresswoman, murdered a federal judge, and killed five other innocent people, while wounding several more. Continue reading “Civility for Thee”
by Bruce S. Thornton
RightNetwork.com
This year the oldest Baby Boomer cohort turns 65, the first of 79 million people who promise to be the whiniest and most annoying crop of geezers in history. Not all of them, of course. Continue reading “Slouching Toward Geezerhood”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Very few Americans are fans of both The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, as the Tucson killer, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, apparently was. Fewer still post on the Internet fears about “brainwashing,” “mind control,” and “conscience dreaming”; have a long record of public disruption and aberrant behavior; were expelled from community college; or were summarily rejected for military service. Continue reading “Political Vultures”