Greek Default
For almost six years Greece has been on the cusp of financial disaster. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online For almost six years Greece has been on the cusp of financial disaster. Its Northern European and international creditors have extended loans, suspended interest payments, and forgiven some debt.
America: One Nation, Indivisible
The Confederate battle flag is far from the only worrisome symbol in America today. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Everyone is weighing in on the horrific murders in Charleston and blaming the mindset of the mass murderer on wider social pathologies. After the airing of the racist crackpot ideas of the unhinged Dylann […]
California: Running On Empty
by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media The air in the San Joaquin Valley this late-June is, of course, hot and dry, but also dustier and more full of particulates than usual. This year a strange flu reached epidemic proportions. I say strange, because after the initial viral symptoms subsided, one’s cough still lingered for […]
The New World Map
by Victor Davis Hanson // TMS Adolf Hitler started World War II by attacking Poland on September 1, 1939. Nazi Germany moved only after it had already remilitarized the Rhineland, absorbed Austria, and dismantled Czechoslovakia. Before the outbreak of the war, Hitler’s new Third Reich had created the largest German-speaking nation in European history.
Goodnight, California
I offer another chronicle, a 14-hour tour of the skeleton I once knew as California. 8:00 AM I finally got around to retrieving the car seat that someone threw out in front of the vineyard near my mailbox. (Don’t try waiting dumpers out — as if it is not your responsibility to clean up California […]
The Postcolonial Rot Spreads Beyond Middle East Studies
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine In theory, Middle East Studies programs are a good idea. One of the biggest impediments to countering modern jihadism has been the lack of historical knowledge about the region and Islam. But even the attention and urgency that followed the terrorist attacks on 9/11 have not led to […]
Sexism and Racism Are Leftism
In our time, sexism and racism have become the province of the rich. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Discrimination by sex and by race are ancient innate pathologies and transcend particular cultures. But the American idea of sexismand racism in the 21st century — unfailing, endemic, and institutional discrimination by a majority-white-male-privileged culture […]
Progressive Academics Shocked That Their Creatures Turn on Them
When the cult of sensitivity begins to eat its children. by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine Recently several progressive professors have publicly complained that their students are hounding them for failing to consider their tender sensibilities by straying beyond the p.c. orthodoxy on sexual assault, sex identity, linguistic correctness, and a whole host of […]
Could World War II Have Ended Sooner than It Did?
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Seventy-one years ago, the British, Canadians, and Americans landed on the Normandy beaches to open a second ground front against Nazi Germany. Operation Overlord — the Allied invasion of Western Europe — proved the largest amphibious operation in military history, dwarfing even Xerxes’s Persian invasion of Greece in […]
Building the New Dark-Age Mind
America’s descent into the Dark Ages will not end well. It never has in the past. by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media History is not static and it does not progress linearly. There was more free speech and unimpeded expression in 5th-century Athens than in Western Europe between 1934-45, or in Eastern Europe during […]
The Three Obamas
Hope and Change was left behind long ago. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The public has come to know three Obamas. But which, if any, of these portraits is real, and which are fantasies? Aside from those who automatically support Obama because he is a redistributionist Democrat, and those who automatically oppose him […]
What’s Driving the Influx of Migrants and Refugees to the West?
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Tuscany — Northern and central Italy are not on the southern Mediterr-anean. But somehow thousands of refugees from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East are everywhere here — as is true of much of the European Union. Some sleep on park benches. Many peddle knock-off electronic goods and […]
Junk Journalism
What the MSM calls “reporting” is often just activism, careerism, and narcissism to advance the Democrat agenda. by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Once upon a time, Dan Rather — the fallen CBS celebrity anchorman from the evening news and at 60 Minutes – was the master of “gotcha” journalism. Rather would play up his […]
The Global Pottersville
Where previous presidents fostered American strength, Obama revels in weakness. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Director Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, set during the Depression, was a divine counterfactual thought experiment designed to remind a suicidal George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) that his hometown, Bedford Falls, would have turned out to be […]
Islamic Supremacism: The True Source of Muslim ‘Grievances’
by Raymond Ibrahim // RaymondIbrahim.com In the ongoing debate (or debacle) concerning free speech/expression and Muslim grievance—most recently on exhibition at Garland, where two “jihadis” opened fire on a “Prophet Muhammad” art contest organized by Pamela Geller—one thing has become clear: the things non-Muslims can do to provoke Islamic violence is limitless and far exceeds cartoons.
The Home of Intellectual Populism Could Use Your Help
by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO- The Corner I have written for National Review since the third bleak day after September 11, 2001, and have not missed a column since. I live and work on the West Coast, but the editors and writers at NR in New York over the years have seemed like a family, […]
Why the Next President Will Face a Dangerous Predicament Abroad
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online For a time, reset, concessions, and appeasement work to delay wars. But finally, nations wake up, grasp their blunders, rearm, and face down enemies. That gets dangerous. The shocked aggressors cannot quite believe that their targets are suddenly serious and willing to punch back. Usually, the bullies foolishly […]
Disasters at Home and Abroad
From ISIS at Ramadi to riots at home, nothing is going right. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” – W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming” Things are starting to collapse, abroad and at home. We all sense it, even […]
Obama and Hillary Are All Too Happy to Coerce Acceptance of Their Agendas
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online What happens when the public does not wish to live out the utopian dreams of its elite leaders? Usually, the answer for those leaders is to seek more coercion and less liberty to force people to think progressively. Here at home, President Barack Obama came into power […]
We’re Still Dumbing Down the Iraq War
The truth about the danger of Saddam Hussein and why we went into Iraq. by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine Jeb Bush tangled himself up recently when he tried to answer a dumb question on the intelligence failures about Iraq’s WMDs and their role in going to war with Saddam Hussein in 2003. I’m […]