by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Why the Gates Affair Bored Us President Obama and the subject of race remind me of the proverbial camel’s back and straws: the American people shrugged off “typical white person”, then forgave  the clingers speech. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Italy… I have been traveling as a lecturer on a Hillsdale College Byzantium Cruise (from Venice to Athens, with several stops in the Adriatic, Mediterranean, and Aegean) for the last few days, and here are some eccentric reflections on civilizations of the past. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner What’s Hollywood to Do? Over the last eight years we saw Fahrenheit 911, Syriana, Redacted,Rendition, Stop Loss, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, and a host of other movies released about the U.S. war on terror and the Iraqi conflict. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Gloves Come Off? I think the new combativeness coming out of the White House will only increase — given growing unhappiness over increased joblessness, the omnipresence of old Clinton-era attack dogs, new public doubts that vast new government programs are really the answer to what was in part… Continue reading The Blues: Disappointment in the Era of Hope and Change

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Big new taxes. Big new spending. Big new government. This seems to be the proposed cure for the Wall Street-inspired recession. Share This

by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media President Barack Obama and I have one thing in common shared by few Americans: we were brought up by at least one parent — biological or step is irrelevant — who was born and raised in an Islamic milieu. Intimately aware of the inevitable effects of this, I must question… Continue reading Obama’s Puzzling Approach to the Muslim World

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Gates incident seems to have had little to do with race but a lot to do with the natural human misunderstandings that happen every day in police scenes — and its final twist has everything to do with insider privilege and aristocratic disdain. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media What Might Have Happened Remember Obama’s initial signature speech (e.g., “there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America”), and all the subsequent conciliatory talk of no blue state, no red state America? Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services From 1933 to 1960, America had nearly three decades of fairly successful presidencies — through the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the threat of nuclear Armageddon. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Debt Matters Over the last two decades it became an article of popular faith that budget deficits did not matter that much. Share This