The American 21st Century
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The current debt, recession, wars, and political infighting have depressed Americans into thinking their country soon will be overtaken by more vigorous rivals abroad. Yet this is an American fear as old as it is improbable.
The Face of Muhammad
by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East Quarterly Review of Images of Muhammad: Narratives of the Prophet in Islam across the Centuries by Tarif Khalidi (New York: Doubleday, 2009. Pp. 327).
How Did All That Happen?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Improbables There are a number of improbables, anomalies, paradoxes, ironies, absurdities — call them what you wish — on the national scene that simply defy reason. We usually fault an ignorant media as culpable for creating narratives that have no basis in fact and yet are rarely questioned. […]
Wars of Religion
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com This holiday season we have pretty much been spared the usual peevish cranks campaigning against any public celebration of Christmas. The attacks on public crèches, school pageants, Christmas music, and even the greeting “Merry Christmas” have been few this year.
When Reason Fades: From Illegal Immigration to Jeffrey Sachs
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Illegal Immigration, Race, and Chauvinism There is nothing about illegal immigration that should ipso facto involve matters of race, culture or ethnicity, given that it is a legal issue at heart.
Every Man a King
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services As the year in politics closed, Congress and President Obama were arguing over maintaining the Bush-era income tax rates.
The Obamaites’ About-Face
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Californians have been experiencing ten days of the wettest, snowiest weather in recent memory. In the usually arid San Joaquin Valley, flooding is ubiquitous. The high Sierra passes are locked in snow well before the first of the year.
“No Labels,” No Democracy
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com Earlier this month, Republican David Frum and Democrat William A. Galston published a manifesto in the Washington Post announcing the birth of a new political movement, No Labels, the first meeting of which was December 13.
2011 Politically-Incorrect Resolutions
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Pride of Solvency I think the American people are not only scared of collective state and national debt, but sick of it as well.
Paradoxes of the Present Age, Profound and Trivial
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Sometimes reality seems at odds with perceived wisdom. Yet these disconnects rarely seem to enter public discussion. Here are a few examples, big and small.
Swedish Jihad Revelations
by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York Back in 2004, in one of his most recognized messages to America, Osama bin Laden, responding to then President George Bush Jr.’s claims that al Qaeda hates freedom, rhetorically asked, “If so [if al Qaeda hates freedom], let him [Bush] explain to us why we have not attacked Sweden, for example.”
In Defense of the Liberal Arts
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The liberal arts face a perfect storm. The economy is struggling with obscenely high unemployment and is mired in massive federal and state deficits. Budget-cutting won’t spare education.
Now What?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media “What do we do now?” – Robert Redford as Bill McKay, in the 1972 film,The Candidate* We still remember a messianic Barack Obama criss-crossing all 57 states promising “millions of new green jobs” and to “close Guantanamo.”
On Ewald Stadler: Another European Who Gets Islam
by Bruce s. Thornton RightNetworks.com Those of us who are hard on Europeans for their cringing appeasement of Muslim aggression need to acknowledge and support the brave few who speak out against it. The late Oriana Fallaci challenged her fellow Europeans to recognize the threat that unassimilated Muslim immigrants and an illiberal Islamic doctrine posed […]
Our “Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain” Moment
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Straws and the Camel’s Back At some point in late 2010 once optimistic independent voters, moderate Republicans, and centrist Democrats stopped listening.
Two Californias
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California.
Julian Assange’s EgoLeaks
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Julian Assange, the public face of WikiLeaks, is, among many things, cowardly. Courageousness would involve meeting with Iranian dissidents, Russian journalists, Pakistani Christians, or Chinese human-rights activists — and then releasing any confidential information that they might have about the torment institutionalized by their countries’ authoritarian regimes.
Why Not Soak the Rich
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services For the last two years, $250,000 in annual income has been an arbitrary line in the sand of a renewed class war. Those above it must have their income taxes raised. Those below it are deemed more virtuous and so deserving of a tax cut.
Islamists Target Christians ‘Wherever They Can Reach Them’
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media In 2006, when Pope Benedict quoted history deemed unflattering to Islam, Christians around the Muslim world paid the price: anti-Christian riots ensued, churches were burned, and a nun was murdered in Somalia.