2016

Why Westerners Make Inviting Targets for Terrorists

Leave a Comment / April 7, 2016

By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online China has a long record of persecuting its Muslim minorities. Russia has brutally suppressed the separatist movement of the predominantly Muslim Chechens with bombing and shelling. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered airstrikes against Syrian Muslims without much worry over collateral damage. India has zero tolerance for Islamic […]

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Trump’s Sloppy Populism

Leave a Comment / March 30, 2016

by Victor Davis Hanson // Defining Ideas Donald Trump’s success has been the most perplexing phenomenon of this election cycle. Why on earth has this New York vulgarian resonated with a full third of Republican voters? Trump’s appeal taps into a middle-class fear of American decline: crises from trade and immigration to debt and foreign

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Europe at the Edge of the Abyss

Leave a Comment / March 29, 2016

America can still avoid sharing Europe’s fate. But only if we take action. By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Because of what Europe has become, it now has few viable choices in dealing with radical Islamic terrorism. Its dilemma is a warning to Americans that we should turn away from a similar path

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The Apology Tour of Our Next President

Leave a Comment / March 28, 2016

By Victor Davis Hanson // Works and Days by PJ Media In Havana recently, President Obama talked of the similarities between Cuba and the United States, as if a constitutional republic of some 240 years and a thuggish and murderous communist dictatorship were kindred souls. In Argentina, Obama both tangoed and then apologized for the

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The Hypocrisy Behind the Student Renaming Craze

Leave a Comment / March 25, 2016

By Victor Davis Hanson // Tribune Media Services University students across the country — at Amherst, Georgetown, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UC Berkeley and dozens of other campuses — are caught up in yet another new fad. This time, the latest college craze is a frenzied attempt to rename campus buildings and streets. Apparently some of

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Ten Commandments for Our Next President

Leave a Comment / March 22, 2016

A good rule of thumb is to look at what Obama has done, and then do the opposite. By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online 1. Do not deflect blame onto others. Take personal responsibility when foreign policies implode — and at least a few will. Read Churchill’s speech after the fall of Tobruk.

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Hillary Vs. Trump: Godzilla Vs. King Kong?

Leave a Comment / March 22, 2016

By Victor Davis Hanson // Works and Days by PJ Media When and if it comes down to a vote for one of just two candidates in the remaining Republican primaries, a majority may still vote for Ted Cruz, which at this point I think is the far wiser course. In November, like most conservatives

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The Buck Never Stops Here

Leave a Comment / March 17, 2016

Victor Davis Hanson // Tribune Media Services In a cover story in the latest issue of The Atlantic magazine, President Obama offers astonishing scapegoating for his own foreign policy disasters.According to Obama, the deterioration of the ISIS wasteland that is now Libya was not due to improvident administration bombing followed by a hasty departure, but

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Time to Calm Down about Trump

Leave a Comment / March 16, 2016

Trump is crude and politically clueless, but no more so than the Clintons, Sanders — or Obama. By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Donald J. Trump thus far has not shown that he has the level-headedness to be president. He has no political ideology and could just as well govern to the left

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The Weirdness of Illegal Immigration

Leave a Comment / March 15, 2016

By Victor Davis Hanson // Works and Days by PJ Media Set aside for a moment all the controversies over illegal immigration—the wall, deportation, amnesty, Donald J. Trump, “comprehensive immigration reform,” etc. Instead, contemplate what happens in a social, cultural, and economic context when several million immigrants arrive from one of the poorest areas in

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