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The Case for Military Action Against Iran

January 12, 2012 9:50 pm / Leave a Comment /

by Bruce S. Thornton

FrontPage Magazine

Iran’s 30-year war against the United States may be reaching its decisive moment. Signs of the worsening crisis abound. Read more →

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A Vandalized Valley

December 22, 2011 5:09 pm /

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

I am starting to feel as if I am living in a Vandal state, perhaps on the frontier near Carthage around AD 530, or in a beleaguered Rome in 455. Here are some updates from the rural area surrounding my farm, taken from about a 30-mile radius. In this take, I am not so much interested in chronicling the flotsam and jetsam as in fathoming whether there is some ideology that drives it. Read more →

Posted in: California, Civilization / Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Strangers in a Familiar Land

October 5, 2011 5:43 pm /

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

High-Speed Rail?

California sits in a time warp. Despite tax hikes that make our roughly 10% income tax and 10% sales tax among the highest in the nation, there is little to show for it during the last forty years. Read more →

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Zero Jobs 101: The Psychology of Alienating Employers

September 25, 2011 6:00 pm /

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

There Is No There There

Zero jobs last month — a net change of zero job growth? It was just announced that last month’s unemployment is still above 9% — despite the nearly five trillion dollars in Keynesian pump-priming, the near zero interest rates, the expanded unemployment and food stamp support, and the government takeovers and subsidies of businesses. Read more →

Posted in: Political Culture, Unemployment / Tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,

Post-9/11 -Isms and -Ologies: A Look Back at a Decade

September 9, 2011 6:35 pm /

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

The Never-ending Day

Like millions of Americans, I did not sleep much on the night of September 11. Read more →

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A Tottering Technocracy

August 11, 2011 9:55 pm /

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

We are witnessing a widespread crisis of faith in our progressive guardians of the last 30 years. Read more →

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The Fragility of Complex Societies

March 18, 2011 5:10 pm /

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Thoughts on Japan

There is no more ordered, successful and humane urban society than found in Japan. Read more →

Posted in: Civilization / Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,
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