DSK’s Technocratic Socialism

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s  The Corner

The bizarre story of socialist IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was almost storybook: Continue reading “DSK’s Technocratic Socialism”

A Teachable Moment on American-European Faultlines

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

The full story is not out on Dominique Strauss-Kahn and he is innocent of forcible sexual battery until proven guilty, but already the case has exposed an ancient abyss between European elite and American popular cultures — accentuated by the differences between New York’s rough-and-tumble media and legal worlds on the one hand and IMF technocracy and French privilege on the other. Continue reading “A Teachable Moment on American-European Faultlines”