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.
America Rides off Into the Sunset
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Thousands in Tokyo have been echoing Barack Obama’s signature call for “change” — but as in “Change! Japanese-U.S. relations.”
Mr. President, Words Matter
Obama, the rhetorician, learns people take a man at his word. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online What is Barack Obama’s real problem? Too many people here and abroad took him at his word, and he now seems quite angry at that.
Civilization’s Lies
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media One of the sad characteristics of contemporary Western society is the tendency to embrace noble lies. These are assertions and acts that don’t square with reality, with what we see and hear — and are voiced for apparently noble social purposes. Here are a few politically-incorrect examples.
The Usual Straw Men
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Cap-and-trade, statist healthcare, and an end to “don’t ask, don’t tell” for thee.
It’s Not about Poverty
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Katie Couric and the New Populism With all the talk of corporate greed and inequality, did people like Katie Couric think that in tough times they were immune from the laws of populist outrage?
Our Obama Saga–Part Two. Chapters Five-Six
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Here’s the conclusion to the saga of Obama. I left off [1] with Chapter Four and why the Obama locomotive went off the rails after only a year.
Our Obama Saga. Part One–Chapters One to Four
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Chapter One — The Liberal Hope and Dream I think our Obama’s collective story will some day be written something like this. The leftwing anointed vision of America got stalled with the failures of the Great Society, and the high tax, big government discontent of the 1970s and 1980s.
Thrashing the Job Makers
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services A year ago Barack Obama inherited a recession brought on by financial panic following the collapse of the housing bubble.
As Predictable as Clockwork–the Obama Three-step
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I think we could see what was coming. This presidency has about as much subtlety in plot as a grade-B western, soap opera, or teenage tantrum.
How Taqiyya Alters Islam’s Rules of War: Defeating Jihadist Terrorism
by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East Quarterly (Winter 2010) Islam must seem a paradoxical religion to non-Muslims. On the one hand, it is constantly being portrayed as the religion of peace; on the other, its adherents are responsible for the majority of terror attacks around the world.
The Obamarang
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media All politicians fudge on their promises. But this president manages to transcend the normal political exaggeration and dissimulation.
Our Populist President?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Obama and Populism I could believe President Obama’s postmortem take that the same populist sentiment that propelled Scott Brown to office also earlier sent him to the White House — if we saw fresh liberal Democrats winning seats in places like Alabama against entrenched Washington Republican insiders. But I […]
Obama in Free Fall
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner A year ago, a number of “moderate” Republicans and Democratic stalwarts, in the gush of the inauguration, warned us of new Democratic majorities for years to come.
Obama versus Obama
Will the real Barack Obama please stand up? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There is little need any more to offer consistent opposition to Barack Obama, since he himself is already running hard against the many previous incarnations of Barack Obama.
Our Philosopher-King Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In Plato’s ideal society, philosopher kings and elite Guardians shepherded the rabble to force them to do the “right” thing.