by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
We’ve had some unusual cabinet secretaries in past administrations — Earl Butz, John Mitchell, and James Watt come to mind — but never anything quite like the present bunch. Continue reading “Secretaries Gone Wild”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Recently, I was driving down pot-holed, two-lane, non-freeway 101 near Monterey (unchanged since the 1960s) when the radio blared that on a recent science test administered to public schools, California scored 47th in the nation. Continue reading “Can California Be Fixed?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Over the last four years, almost all of the news about the shaky European Union has been financial, with some attention paid to southern Mediterranean tabloid attacks on Germany and the German media counter-stereotyping of irresponsible siesta-loving sunny Mediterraneans. Continue reading “The EU at the Abyss”
by Bruce S. Thronton
FrontPage Magazine
The presidency of Barack Obama has established once and for all that modern liberalism is now the stupid party. Very little of liberal thought these days represents anything fresh or new, but rather comprises what Lionel Trilling once reduced conservatism to: “irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.” Continue reading “The Stupid Party”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The temple of postmodern liberalism was rocked these last few weeks, as a number of supporting columns and buttresses simply crashed, leaving the entire edifice wobbling. Continue reading “All Fall Down”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We recently saw lots of sit-down strikes and demonstrations — the various efforts in Wisconsin, the Occupy movements, and student efforts to oppose tuition hikes. None of them mattered much or changed anything. Continue reading “Sitting Out Obama”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Administration meltdowns are hardly novel. In almost every presidency there comes a moment when sheer chaos, whether self-induced or the result of an outside crisis, takes hold. Continue reading “When Administrations Implode”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The world was reinvented in the 1970s by soaring oil prices and massive transfers of national wealth. It could be again if the price of petroleum crashes — a real possibility given the amazing estimates about the new gas and oil reserves on the North American continent. Continue reading “The Second Oil Revolution”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
As the election year heats up, we seem not to have noticed the surreal nature of the campaign. Continue reading “Obama’s Surreal Campaign”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
It proved as hard to break up the bankrupt European Union as it was to create it. Continue reading “2011: Out with a Whimper, Not a Bang”