by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The chief tenet of postmodernism is that truth and facts are arbitrary constructs, set up by the privileged to manipulate others less fortunate. In the case of our first postmodernist president, Barack Obama, there cannot be facts, past or present, only a set of shifting assertions that gain credence to the degree that they prove transitorily useful for progressive causes. Continue reading “Obama in Never-Never Land”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
No one has any idea what the Middle East will look like next year, much less in five years — especially the revolutionary players themselves. Continue reading “The Muddle East”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
What should we expect as the campaign heats up in the final four months? Continue reading “Beware the Idea of October”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The 2012 election will hinge on the economy, not on US foreign policy, unless there is a major overseas crisis — an Israeli attack on Iran, an Iranian detonation of a nuclear weapon, a Middle East war, a North Korean attack, or something of that sort. Continue reading “The Obama Foreign Policy”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
In open worries that the EU disaster may spread to the US and thereby endanger the reelection of Barack Obama, campaign consultant Bob Shrum recently wrote: Continue reading “‘Germany May Destroy Europe for the Third Time’–Really?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Who would not prefer “growth” to “austerity”? That is the false dichotomy that insolvent Western governments, both here and abroad, are now constructing. After all, everyone prefers growing things to starving them. Yet in truth, there is no such clear-cut choice. Continue reading “‘Austerity’ versus ‘Growth’”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
Traveling through Europe can obscure the looming crisis threatening the continent. Visiting the medieval villages of Alsace, the castles on the Rhine, or the magnificent cathedrals in Basel or Cologne, it’s easy to forget that Europe is on the brink of disaster. But these days even EUrophiles are sounding apocalyptic. Continue reading “Don’t Let America Imitate a Burning EU”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Two parties, left and right, are central to good consensual government — one the perennial check on the other, both within the general boundaries of constitutional free-market capitalism. Continue reading “The Liberal Super Nova”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Editor’s note: Recently, VDH led a group on a tour of the Rhine and wrote these thoughts.
Rhine Watching Continue reading “Thoughts on the Rhine”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Cologne, Germany
I’m still in Germany, and keep noticing a predictable, but continually interesting, pattern in talking to Germans of all walks of life — tourists, hoteliers, guides, drivers, casual bystanders, or students. When Greece comes up (or rather is brought up by Americans), there is a noticeable tension. Continue reading “The Limits of German Patience”