The Way Our World Works
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Strange Thing About Nemesis… …is that the deity picks its victims on the basis of irony and arrogance. For every media-frenzy about ethical lapses of columnist Armstrong Williams taking Bush administration money for hawking No Child Left Behind, there is a Jonathan Gruber [1], the MIT go-to pundit on healthcare, […]
Bush Did It! And, Really, Bush Did It! And Bush Really Did It!
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media That Damn Guantanamo! Obama gave a rather incredible press conference about his review of security lapses. When he evoked Guantanamo, the president all at once (“make no mistake about it”) (a) promised to close it, (b) promised not to send any more detainees home to Yemen, and (c) claimed […]
2010: Our Year of Decision
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Sometimes long-festering problems collide — and explode — in a single memorable year. We can go as far back as the fifth century B.C. to see this phenomenon — and we may see it again in 2010.
Beating the Dead Terrorist Horse
September 11 taught us many lessons. To our peril, we have forgotten them. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Most of the current acrimony over counterterrorism is stale. The debate is simply a rehash of issues that were discussed and, in fact, resolved early last decade. Let us review them one more time.
Who Is the Enemy?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I don’t think anyone knows quite what this administration’s anti-terrorism policy is. Last August, Obama’s counterterrorism chief, John Brennan, lambasted the Bush administration, citing “the inflammatory rhetoric, hyperbole and intellectual narrowness that has often characterized the debate over the president’s national security policies” and criticizing the conduct of counterterrorism during […]
Obama as Greek Tragedy–Part One
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Self-centered Protagonist The blueprint of a Sophoclean or even Euripidean tragedy is pretty straightforward. A confident, cocky tragic hero for about the first 600 lines of the play exhibits unconstrained exuberance as he takes on the world.
Obama’s Tortured Rendezvous with Reality: Interview with VDH
by Jamie Glazov FrontPage Magazine FP: Victor Davis Hanson, welcome to Frontpage Interview. First things first, let me ask you this.
Chickens and Their 2010 Roost
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In the coming year, plenty of our chickens will be coming home to roost.
Human IEDs
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Learning from Abdul Mutallab Coming on the heels of the killing spree by Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, the latest terrorist “incident,” involving Abdul Mutallab on Northwest Flight 253, is yet another isolated but tell-tale sign that we must learn from:
On the Horizon
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Some Modest Obama Predictions 1) We will begin to hear, ever so insidiously, mention again of the “war on terror”; some quiet memo will go out to cool all the talk of ‘man-made disasters’ and ‘overseas contingency operations’.
American Ajax
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review A review of LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay by Warren Kozak (Regnery Press, 2009, 354 pp.)
The Humpty-Dumpty View of the World
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media What might explain the inexplicable like the following?
The Summer of 1683
by Victor Davis Hanson First Things (October 2009) A review of The Enemy at the Gate: Hapsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft (Basic, 368 pp).
A Fairer Verdict On Bush
A reassessment of the 43rd president has already begun. by Victor Davis Hanson Forbes Magazine Critics are tallying the Bush administration’s pluses and minuses, and some consensus is emerging that in time George W. Bush, like Harry Truman, will be seen in a far more favorable light than his low poll ratings reflected.
Shameless Islamist Doublespeak Rages On
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media “Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri Accuses Obama of Trying to ‘Enslave’ Arab World.”
Learning From Abdul Mutallab
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Coming on the heels of the killing spree by Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, the latest terrorist “incident,” involving Abdul Mutallab on Northwest Flight 253, is yet another isolated but tell-tale sign that we must learn from:
The War Against the Wannabe Rich
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services There is class warfare going on in this country — but it’s not against the established rich. It’s against those who are trying to become wealthy.
Where Did These Guys Come From?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Origins of Obamism I do not think it will be easy to delay Obamism. It is not just that both houses of Congress are under liberal leadership with ample majorities, with a White House and captive media egging them on.
Orwell Couldn’t Make This Up
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Our Moments: Today’s Paradoxes Various Norwegians are said to be miffed that Laureate Obama snubbed the traditional lunch with their King Harald. Are they surprised?
Why Are We Tiring of Obama?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The China Presidency I have an heirloom china pitcher on my mantle that has dozens of glued cracks — so much so that it is now purely ornamental and will not hold water.