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Eating Our Young

January 28, 2014 10:02 am /

by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media 

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It is popular now to talk of race, class, and gender oppression. But left out of this focus on supposed victim groups is the one truly targeted cohort — the young. Despite the Obama-era hype, we are not suffering new outbreaks of racism. Wendy Davis is not the poster girl for a resurgent misogyny. There is no epidemic of homophobia. Instead, if this administration’s policies are any guide, we are witnessing a pandemic of ephebiphobia — an utter disregard for young people.

The war against those under 30 — and the unborn — is multifaceted. No one believes that the present payroll deductions leveled on working youth will result in the same levels of support upon their retirements that is now extended to the retiring baby-boom Read more →

Posted in: Education, America's Future, The Middle Class / Tagged: , , , , , ,

The End of the Old Order

May 30, 2013 6:36 pm /

The well-intentioned social programs of the 1960s make no sense today.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Ideas of the 1960s have grown reactionary in our world, which is vastly different from the America of a half-century ago. Read more →

Posted in: America's Future, Popular Culture / Tagged: , , , , , ,

After Obama

April 11, 2013 10:13 pm /

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

We can imagine what lies ahead in 2017 — no matter the result of either the 2014 midterm elections or the 2016 presidential outcome. Read more →

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How to Weaken an Economy

March 16, 2013 4:16 pm /

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

It is not easy to ruin the American economy; doing nothing[1] usually means it repairs itself[2] and soon is healthier than before a recession. Read more →

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The Terrifying New Normal

September 7, 2012 10:21 pm / Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJMedia

The World We Don’t Question

I’ve witnessed two of the most radical developments in my lifetime the last four years — changes far greater than those brought on by the massive new increases in the national debt, the soaring gas costs, the radical decrease in average family income, the insolvent Medicare and Social Security trajectories, or the flat housing market. Read more →

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

Are We Doomed?

August 25, 2012 1:45 am /

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Sometimes societies find themselves in pernicious cycles in which the perceived medicine seems worse than the known disease. The Roman satirist Juvenal lamented the ill effects of free food and free entertainment for the masses (“bread and circuses”) in part because he knew there was no remedy for the pathology in sight — and thus only a slow decline toward fiscal insolvency or riots were on the horizon. Read more →

Posted in: Budget, Commentary / Tagged: , , , , , ,

The New American Helots

June 18, 2012 12:21 am / Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

Ancient Sparta turned its conquered neighbors into indentured serfs — half free, half slave. The resulting helot underclass produced the food of the Spartan state, freeing Sparta’s elite males to train for war and the duties of citizenship. Read more →

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Freedom or Fairness in 2012?

April 11, 2012 3:24 pm / Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

This should prove to be an ideological election about the economy. Not all campaigns are so clear-cut. Sometimes moderate Republicans raise taxes (as George H. W. Bush did); at other times, pragmatic Democrats cut spending (as Bill Clinton did). Read more →

Posted in: Debt and Deficits, Campaign 2012, Commentary / Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Being There–the Obama Sequel

January 8, 2012 9:07 pm / Leave a Comment /

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Rip Van Obama

President Obama went into a deep slumber in December. When he woke up this January, he found himself back even in the polls, with neither a press conference nor another overhyped presidential televised address to be heard. Read more →

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Moral Equivalence Is Moral Evasion

November 25, 2011 4:49 pm /

by Bruce S. Thornton

FrontPage Magazine

The failure of the Congressional budget “super-committee” to address our geometrically expanding debt and deficits should surprise no one. Read more →

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