New Trickle Down Theory
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Truly Amazing Fact One wonders not that President Obama tells untruths (e.g. no middle-class tax increase, health-care “reform” will control costs, C-Span’s airing of healthcare debates, listing pending legislation on the internet for five days, closing down Guantanamo within a year, advocacy for all combat forces out of […]
A Nation of Profilers
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Profiling is considered among the worst of American sins.
Shall We Laugh or Cry at Morgan Hill?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media What are we to make of the five students who were temporarily suspended by the administration at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill for purportedly seeking to provoke — by the wearing of various American flag insignia, no less — Mexican-American students who were at the time celebrating, […]
The Other European Volcano
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Five years ago, the European Union’s account of itself resonated with end-of history triumphalism.
A New Nowhere Debate?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Bad Time Now would be a particularly bad time for the president to push for amnesty under the rubric of comprehensive immigration reform — an approach that failed Bush, despite economic good times and supposedly a supportive base.
News Beneath the News
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media From the Embarrassing to the Pathetic I don’t want to beat the proverbial dead horse, but these media polarities are getting to the point of absurdity. Bush, the lazy golfer while we were at war; Obama the engaged commander-in-chief playing golf for needed relaxation more in one year than […]
Greek Tragedies
Violent reaction to bad news in Greece is unique but not surprising given its past. by Victor Davis Hanson Wall Street Journal Online Draping the Acropolis with a hammer-and-sickle banner might seem a stupid public relations stunt — especially as a bankrupt Greece seeks to reassure foreign capitalist investors to save Hellenic socialism.
Soldier-Citizens to the Rescue?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Usually a handful of ex-soldiers seek political office every election cycle. But well over 20 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are running this fall for Congress alone.
Obama’s Good and Bad Words
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Barack Obama once warned, “Don’t tell me words don’t matter!” He was right. They do.
Thoughts on Gorism
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media From the Sanctimonious to the Ridiculous I think sometime this year elite radical environmentalism died. And at about the same time perished also the notion of the man in the mansion as the man on the barricades. Let me explain.
Is There a Pattern Here or What?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The jihadist symptoms of Major Hasan were ignored; General Casey lamented the possible ramifications of Hasan’s killings to the army’s diversity program; the warnings of Mr. Mutallab’s father about his son’s jihadist tendencies were ignored but the latter’s Miranda rights were not;
Of Laureates and Cowboys
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In politics, having power and keeping it often mean fudging a little on ideology.
A Nobel, Bad Idea
President Obama’s new nuclear policy is ill-timed and ill-conceived. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal (April 2010) President Obama has announced a new American policy concerning the use of nuclear weapons (the “Nuclear Posture Review”).
The Remains of a California Day
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Yesterday I think I understood why California is in deep trouble. Let me walk you through another day out here.
The Remains of a California Day
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Yesterday I think I understood why California is in deep trouble. Let me walk you through another day out here.
Obama’s Nuclear Naivety
The problem is not nuclear weapons per se, but who has them. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Obama administration has celebrated its recent efforts to sign a nuclear-weapons accord with Russia and the hosting of a nuclear non-proliferation summit in Washington — all silhouetted against grandiose promises to seek the end of […]
It Takes an Army
Rodney Stark argues the Crusades were defensive wars by Terry Scambray The New Oxford Review A review of God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades by Rodney Stark (Harper One, 2009, 260 pp.).
Tomorrow’s Wars
Massively destructive engagements may again be on the horizon. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal (Winter 2010) Have we not seen, then, in our lifetime the end of the Western way of war?” Two decades ago, I concluded The Western Way of War with that question.
How Could They Do That in Arizona
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Arizona Hysteria Racist! Nativist! Profiler! Xenophobe! Write or say anything about illegal immigration, and one should expect to be called all of that and more — even if a strong supporter of legal immigration.
Democracy at Risk
by Raymond Ibrahim American Thinker A review of The War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy by Dr. Walid Phares (Macmillen, 2007, pp. 288) first appeared inThe America Thinker under the book’s title.