From the Unbelievable to the Passé
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media From time to time I stop and wonder how the unbelievable can become the accepted. Let me list four arbitrary, but still representative, examples of what I mean.
The Gift of Obama’s Foreign Policy
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Obama reset foreign policy has, in an unintended way, brought clarity to America’s traditional role in the world. After 2004, “blame Bush” proved an easy way for Europeans and American liberals to delude themselves into thinking the world’s problems neither predated nor transcended George W. Bush:
Why Patriotism Is Indispensable for Democracies
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com From its beginnings in ancient Athens, democracy has been bedeviled by weaknesses that paradoxically arise from its defining genius.
Rep. Loretta Sanchez and the Bathos of Race
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Race on the Brain Again Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) recently caused a mini-controversy (they always are mini- if the offender is a self-declared progressive “person of color”).
Americans Still Cling to Ignorance
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The bookish, twice-unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson once sighed that if most thinking people supported him, it still wouldn’t be enough in America because “I need a majority.”
President 40/60
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I think Barack Obama will soon dip below a 40% approval rating. He’s nearing there now. Why? A mixture of both the personal and political. Here are five good reasons:
Jihadists Get the Veto
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity – Yeats, The Second Coming Florida pastor Terry Jones called off his Koran-burning after President Obama and others in his administration joined the chorus of Americans asking him not to go through with it.
Carly Fiorina: Robber Baron, Traitor–and Outsourcer!
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online One of Sen. Barbara Boxer’s sharpest charges against challenger Carly Fiorina is that, as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, she allowed thousands of jobs to be outsourced overseas — depriving U.S. workers of income while piling up profits for executive grandees like herself.
Policies Based on Illusion
by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal The great historian of Soviet Russia, Robert Conquest, once wrote something about the dangers of naïve diplomacy that I’m reminded of daily.
Multiculturalism
by Victor Davis Hanson RightNetwork.com Multiculturalism is now the final arbiter of all liberal sensitivity. Let me explain.
A Nation of Peasants?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Traditional peasant societies believe in only a limited good. The more your neighbor earns, the less someone else gets. Profits are seen as a sort of theft. They must be either hidden or redistributed. Envy rather than admiration of success reigns.
Obama Made Us Do It!
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Running Away from the Record Even the bogeyman George Bush has a finite shelf life. It is as if he is now somehow last fall’s Halloween goblin that we are still supposed to worry about months later during the Fourth of July.
The Specter of Muslim Disloyalty in America
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Islamist enmity for infidels, regularly manifested in the jihad, is by now moderately well known. Lesser known, however, but of equal concern, is the mandate for Muslims to be loyal to fellow Muslims and Islam — a loyalty that all too often translates into disloyalty to all things non-Muslim, including the American […]
Misunderstanding Muslim “Tolerance”
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com Our understanding of modern jihadism has been compromised by a false narrative in which a noble religion has been “hijacked” and distorted by extremists.
Obama’s Glass House
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Preachers and professors have it hard as presidents. They sermonize too much. Finally the public gets tired of being lectured by those whom they increasingly see as no more upright than themselves. Prophets crumble from feet of clay, and stones shatter glass houses.
An Apologetic 9/11?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Words Not Spoken I listened carefully to the president’s commemorative speech and many of the other public statements from our elected officials. This year’s anniversary marked a somewhat new tone, tentative, near apologetic — as if the Ground Zero and Pentagon attacks were wholly tragic rather than solely due […]
Decline Is in the Mind
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media With a Whimper Not a Bang Juxtapose pictures of Frankfurt and Liverpool in 1945, and then again in 2010 (or for that matter Hiroshima and Detroit). Something seems awry. Perhaps one can see, even in these superficial images, that something other than military defeat more often erodes societies.
A Sleeper Reply: A Reply to “Martial Flaw”
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers From time to time I post replies to critics. Here is a letter I sent to the journal Democracyin reply to a quite strange rant from one Jim Sleeper about Makers of Ancient Strategy, which I recently edited for Princeton University Press. The book was about the influence of ancient strategy […]
Rethinking George Bush?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Former President George W. Bush left office with the lowest approval ratings since Richard Nixon. In reaction, for nearly two years President Barack Obama won easy applause by prefacing almost every speech on his economic policies with a “Bush did it” put-down.
Enough Already with Reverend Jones
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Everyone is trying to outdo one another in righteous condemnation of the Reverend Terry Jones and his micro-flock, to assure the world that 50 people out of 300 million does not a majority make.