2010

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services What’s behind the Tea Party protests, low approval ratings for Congress, distrust of the media and unease with experts in the Obama administration? Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Count the Ways A German scholar twenty years ago listed, I recall, some 210 reasons for the collapse of the Western Empire. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner 1. Savvy Americans always see through the fraud in the end and do the right thing are infantile and don’t know what’s good for them. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Who is Afraid of Big Government? There is no reason to review all the standard reasons why the American people are terrified of an all-powerful federal or state government. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Partisanship, Then and Now One of the stranger behaviors of the ever-stranger Obama administration is its sudden adoption of the “wounded fawn” posture. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Thousands in Tokyo have been echoing Barack Obama’s signature call for “change” — but as in “Change! Japanese-U.S. relations.” Share This

Obama, the rhetorician, learns people take a man at his word. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online What is Barack Obama’s real problem? Too many people here and abroad took him at his word, and he now seems quite angry at that. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media One of the sad characteristics of contemporary Western society is the tendency to embrace noble lies. These are assertions and acts that don’t square with reality, with what we see and hear — and are voiced for apparently noble social purposes. Here are a few politically-incorrect examples. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Cap-and-trade, statist healthcare, and an end to “don’t ask, don’t tell” for thee. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Katie Couric and the New Populism With all the talk of corporate greed and inequality, did people like Katie Couric think that in tough times they were immune from the laws of populist outrage? Share This