Wandering Around Europe
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Beauty of Europe One can see why millions of Muslims flock to Europe. Oh, I know it is the economic and political dividends of Western consensual governments and state capitalism that provide such material and spiritual freedom.
Lost in the Labyrinth of Race
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Sotomayor Nomination and the Politics of Racial Identity One of the unexpected results of the Sotomayor nomination is a refocusing on the politics of racial identity and the fossilized institutions of affirmative action — or the belief that the U.S. government should use its vast power to ensure […]
Euroamericans?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media European thoughts… I am on my first week of an annual tour I co-lead to Europe. Some random thoughts.
California on the Horizon
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner It is generally known that Americans want it both ways — green giddiness and plenty of oil and gas for their cars and homes; lots of government services and low taxes; a big military but spasms of isolationism.
Hope and Change’s Shelf Life
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner After listening to Obama’s speeches of the last few weeks, I think almost everyone now knows the boilerplate.
Ministers of Truth
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner True, the far Left, in the manner of the far Right’s hatred of Bush’s Iraq War and his support for Israel, has begun to murmur disappointment with Obama.
Is America Premodern or Postmodern?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services During the last 20 years, science and a growing economy gave Americans the most sophisticated and leisured lifestyles in history. We inexpensively call or e-mail anywhere in the world.
The Ways of the Left
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Yes, Nancy, There Really Is a God Nemesis There is an odd sense among Democrats that nemesis simply does not exist.
Amnesiatic
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media That Was Then, This is Now… The current furor over the three water-boarded terrorists is right out of the old Greek idea of excess leading to hubris leading to nemesis leading to destruction. Do we really wish to revisit 2002?
Once Upon a Time in 2002
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services For over a year after the murder of 3,000 innocent people in New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, shell-shocked Americans were gripped by other horrific images of terrorism across the globe.
Cheney Agonistes
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner What is strange about the furor over the Cheney interviews is that so many of the arguments against them simply have no precedent or logic.
John Ford and the Republicans
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner There has been lots of discussion about David Brooks’s suggestion that the John Ford Western was about community and order — and that this serves as a timely message for the out-in-the-wilderness Republicans to put less emphasis on rugged individualism and more on a sort of community organizing.
President Palin’s First 100 Days
A near disaster. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online WASHINGTON (AP) — The first 100 days of the Palin presidency, according to a consensus of media commentators, have proven a near disaster.
Cracks in the Façade
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Fissures in the Obama Totem Oh, I know that President Obama’s approval ratings are still around 62%. But I also remember that George Bush’s at the end of 2001 got even higher — and stayed at or above 60% through most of 2002, explaining why he increased his congressional […]
Obama’s Foreign Policy Disasters
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Illegal Immigration Realities
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Rendezvous with Reality There are a number of issues on the horizon that cannot simply be hoped and changed away or dismissed with the now accustomed ‘hit the reset’ button/’Bush did it’ throw-away line.
Americans Want It Both Ways
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Today’s Americans inherited the wealthiest nation in history — but only because earlier generations learned how to feed, fuel, finance and defend themselves in ways unrivaled elsewhere.
Questions from Oceania
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Who will Lend? We are going to spend over $3.5 trillion next year, run up an annual debt of $1.7 trillion, and are on schedule to add another $9 trillion to reach an aggregate debt of $20 trillion in eight years.
Why Did Republicans Lose Their Appeal?
And how can they get it back? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Colin Powell keeps insisting that the Republicans lost the presidency because of right-wing extremists like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, who, in his view, have become the public face of the Republican party, and thus will ensure its permanent marginalization.
Nothing New Under the Sun
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Same Old Equality of Result Rather than nitpick about Obama’s envisioned brave new world, I think it wiser to see it in the larger context of age-old divides over the nature of Western democratic and liberal society.