by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Why are so many Americans so depressed about things these days? It is perhaps not just the economy. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I confess I don’t know all that much about the theory of economics, and have done some unwise things in the strict financial sense the last thirty years — remodeled an ancient family farm house that will never be appraised at what was sunk into it, both farmed and rented… Continue reading The “Depression” for Us Idiots

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media What hope and change would all of us, conservatives and liberals alike, welcome from President Obama? Here are some suggestions, surreal and serious, trivial and quite important. Share This

What a difference an election makes. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Bush was ridiculed today by critics of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility when he suggested that his administration no longer was incarcerating “unlawful combatants,” but was instead in the process of renaming them as mere “detainees.” Share This

by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Why do some Muslims become suicide bombers or “martyrs”? Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Anatomy of vero possumus It is odd that after five weeks we can pretty much see the next four years: Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Imagine that last fall before being elected, Barack Obama had outlined the positions he has embraced since being inaugurated as president. An honest campaign speech could have gone something like this: Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Going broke without style… $3.6 trillion budget. $1.7 trillion annual deficit. $800 billion plus borrowing stimulus. $600 billion plus in outlays for new nationalized health care, and then another $600 billion again for cap-and-trade.  Share This

With Obama, Europeans may have got more than they bargained for. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Last summer, with several other Americans, I went to a garden reception attended by some French barristers, generals, and assorted professionals in Versailles. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media One big thing In this fiscal crisis, the public wanted one big thing to quote Archilochus: A reform of the banking industry that offered federal-guaranteed lines of credit to ensure liquidity, and a new transparency so investors would at least know that their supposedly blue-chip AIG stocks or Lehman… Continue reading Fast and Thick in the Age of Obama