No Allies–But Plenty of Enemies
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Almost 30 years after losing a war over the Falkland Islands, Argentina is once again warning Britain that it still wants back what it calls the Malvinas.
The ‘I Am Not George Bush’ Policy
All the borrowing at home and fighting abroad? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The first year of the Obama administration has been a vertiginous pile of confusions and contradictions. In hunting for a theme to its decision making, we might start with Obama’s relation to his predecessor.
We Have Rave on the Brain: The Present Mishmash
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media What’s going on with race relations? I just read an account of racial tension at UC San Diego, involving largely white students of a fraternity crassly parodying black history month.
Dronism
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media California is a rich state — as the world found out the last century. It has the best farmland in the world, much of it watered by gravity-fed irrigation from the Sierra. Its timber acreage is vast.
Politically Correct Killing?
Obama needs to clarify his anti-terrorism policy. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online By all accounts, President Obama has vastly increased the number of Predator drone strikes during his 13 months in office and expanded the theater of missile operations by thousands of square miles.
Obama–Too Little, Too Late
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The United States may very well owe a crushing $20 trillion by 2020. And thus President Obama last week named a bipartisan commission to find ways to address our national debt.
Obama Fatigue
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Every President starts to wear on the public. But the omnipresent Obama has become wearisome in record time. Why?
On American Exceptionalism
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner 1) American exceptionalism — Perhaps it derives in part from our putting a higher premium on freedom and liberty than, as in the French and other European cases, egalitarianism and fraternity; also, we were truly the first multi-ethnic state that sought to embrace a common culture rather than carve out […]
Is There a Philosophy of Hypocrisy?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Here are a few things that I think don’t quite compute.
Where Did Out Real Wealth Go?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Greek Lesson No, I don’t mean the classical Greeks, but their present-day counterparts.
Beware of ‘Comprehensive’ Anything
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Before envisioning dramatic change, the Roman emperor Augustus is said to have warned, “Make haste slowly.” The reformer Augustus was eager for radical social transformation.
Some Thoughts on the War on Terror
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The New, Upside-Down War on Terror Is there any logic in the confusion of the Obama administration’s actions and statements on fighting the war on terror?
Truth and Consequences
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner What a Difference a Year Makes A year ago the media resonated with the celebration of democracy, grassroots pushback against the existing order, the renewal of Congress, and the novel harmony between government and the people.
Bidenism
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media “I am very optimistic about — about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration.” — Joe Biden, February 12, 2010. Just Politics? All politicians hedge and backtrack, as the daily news proves their previous assertions and boasts wrong.
The Tragic Truth of War
What we dare not say: Killing the enemy brings victory. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Victory has usually been defined throughout the ages as forcing the enemy to accept certain political objectives. “Forcing” usually meant killing, capturing, or wounding men at arms.
The Trouble with Elitist Theories
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?
Why Did Rome Fall–And Why Does It Matter Now?
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.
The New Commandments on the Animal Farm Barn Wall
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.
Why Fear Big Government?
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.
Our Top Anti-Terrorism Advisor Must Go
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.