by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Quite often a brief news story sums up the collective pathologies of postmodern American society. Here is a recent tragic news item from my local paper, followed by some commentary: Continue reading “Snapshot of a Sick Society”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
2011, not 1970?
We have had about a half-century of racial preferences and often unspoken but real quotas for hiring and admission based on racial identity. Continue reading “The End of an Idea: Why Affirmative Action Should Stop”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Gas Dreams Come True
High energy costs to the Obamites are only unfortunate in terms of overcoming short-term political challenges. Continue reading “Living the Obama Dream”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
I was disappointed by the president’s tone more than the specifics of his proposals. Once again, he proves true to character: politicizing the issue, citing straw men, and then accusing those with whom he disagrees of political demagoguery. Continue reading “Amnesty Revisited”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
As usual, the mainstream media are getting wrong the significance of President Obama’s release of his actual birth certificate. Continue reading “The Unexamined President and His Media Enablers”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
During the Republican convention of 2008, Rudy Giuliani rhetorically asked: what is a community organizer? I think we always knew the answer without even referencing the guidebook of Saul Alinsky. Continue reading “But That’s What Community Organizers Do”
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
With Egypt’s “July Revolution” of 1952, for the first time in millennia, Egyptians were able to boast that a native-born Egyptian, Gamal Abdel Nasser, would govern their nation: Ever since the overthrow of its last native pharaoh nearly 2,500 years ago, Egypt had been ruled by a host of foreign invaders — Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and Brits, to name a few. Continue reading “Egypt’s Identity Crisis”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Obama’s Multiculturalism vs. Bush’s Freedom
Let us be honest. Most of George Bush’s admirable support — as voiced in his 2005 inaugural address — for freedom abroad was de facto abandoned by 2006-7. Condoleeza Rice had championed Egyptian dissidents, but within a year that advocacy was dropped and we were back to the Mubarak paradigm as usual. Continue reading “The Middle East and the Multicultural Nightmare”
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 Bruce S. Thornton
RightNetwork.com
Every time a crazy person perpetrates irrational mayhem, we immediately start demanding explanations that gratify our ideological assumptions. For liberals, something in the environment drives people to such acts. Continue reading “Free Men Have Free Tongues”