The Incredibly Wonderful World of Our Sensitive Elites
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Life in Our Alternate Universe I listened to two hours of news the other night, then read a sampling of columnists, and learned the following.
Unprecedented: Egyptian Government Suppresses Christian Doctrine
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media It is not enough that the Egyptian government facilitates persecution of the Copts, Egypt’s indigenous Christian minority.
Obama’s Gulf War III
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Man-made Disasters The president recently addressed the nation on the oil slick, nearly two months into the disaster.
The Great Anglo-American Spat
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Various irate British observers — from columnists like Peter Hitchens and Geoffrey Wheatcroft to parliamentarians and former cabinet officials — have recently declared the “special relationship” with America to be over.
Government by the Faculty Lounge
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Professors Are In Charge We are being run by the mindset of the faculty lounge, as if the philosophy or English department has taken over running the country. Let me adduce some random examples.
The New Wannabe Ottomans
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services A Turkish Islamic group — the “Humanitarian Relief Foundation,” often associated by Western intelligence agencies with terrorist sponsorship — orchestrated the recent Gaza flotilla.
Raising Cain over Israel
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Turkish Question Turkey thought that the Gaza flotilla would be yet another clever way of confronting Israel: They would hype the hoped-for “overreaction,” then posture as regional defender of the faith to the world’s outraged Muslims.
Thomas, Turkey, and the Liberation of Israel
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is hard to become much more influential than the doyen of the White House press corps, who is given a ceremonial front-rows seat at press briefings and press conferences.
Beyond the Scopes Trial?
Singham’s new book misses the Christian foundation of law and much more. by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review God vs. Darwin: The War between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom by Mano Singham (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
What Did You Say About Muhammad?
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Which is more likely to elicit an irate Muslim response: 1) public cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, or 2) public proclamations that Muhammad was a bisexual, sometime transvestite and necrophile, who enjoyed sucking on the tongues of children, commanded a woman to “breastfeed” an adult man, and advised believers […]
Katrinization
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner There has been a lot of noise about the oil plume and the proper responsibility of government, but the real lesson is that, during Bush’s two terms, the media began to hold presidents culpable for many things that used to be attributed to tragedy, and also for things that […]
Twin Disasters
The strange attitude of the administration to immigration and debt. by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Wages of Multiculturalism How strange that the president of Mexico, while a guest on the lawn of the White House, would attack the laws of a U.S. state, while his own country’s immigration laws and policies in relation […]
Our 1979
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Year That Was It has been sort of a topos to evoke the specter of 1979. I’ve done it repeatedly, as have other observers.
America 101 with Dean Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media America Is Now a Campus, and Obama Is Our Dean This is the strangest presidency I have seen in my lifetime.
History Down the Danube
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Nuremberg: Triumph of Will A German remarked on our Tour 2010 that he found it odd that, given all the graffiti one sees, there is never any defacement on the great stone stage at Nuremberg (patterned by Albert Speer after the Pergamon altar) that is immortalized in so many […]
Reflections on Small Town America
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Kingsburg, California, is a sort of small town that modernism forgot, at least by the measure of the usual landscapes of the Central Valley.
Marinestan
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services HBO’s 10-part series on the Pacific campaign of World War II just ended. That story of island-hopping was mostly about how the old breed of U.S. Marines fought diehard Japanese infantrymen face-to-face in places like Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Guam and Okinawa.
The Art of Seaborne Humiliation
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A tiny flotilla of “peace ships” sets out to run an Israeli blockade of the Gaza coast.
Death of the Postmodernist Dream
Obama’s dream of a new world order has died a quiet death. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In just a few months the brave new dream world as we knew it has died — but with a whimper, not a bang.
What Our Media Taught Me
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I’ve been over here in Europe for about ten days, getting a different perspective on our illustrious media and how it is handling the various Obama “troubles.”