The Power of Payback
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Nemesis Everywhere I have believed in the power of the goddess Nemesis (“dispenser of dues”) ever since I was introduced to the concept as a teenager studying classics, especially in the texts of Hesiod, Herodotus, and Sophocles.
Guru America
An American ever more liked–and ever less respected. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Obama last week flew to Copenhagen to persuade the International Olympic Committee to award the 2016 games to Chicago, his hometown.
The Left’s Selective Outrage
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine You know liberals are edging toward a full Jonestown-style meltdown when someone as smart as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman starts losing it.
Nobelitics
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Nobel Prizes from Lala Land Norway is a tiny country that was born lucky. It is weak and defenseless (and was quickly overrun in World War II [while neighboring, neutral Sweden sold the Third Reich 40% of its iron ore, that went for everything from Tiger tanks to kill […]
Thoughts on the Hysteria About Afghanistan
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Afghanistan is a messy war, but so far it has been conducted with a minimum loss of American life while achieving some important goals.
The Buck Passes Here
According to Obama’s chorus of whiners, nothing is ever his fault. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Meet the Obama whiners. “They did it” is the new administration’s credo when things go wrong.
Change and Hope
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Olympic Fiasco I think most Americans were rooting for Chicago. As I wrote on NRO’s corner, I know I was.
A Troubling Policy on Iran
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Chickens Roosting Where to begin with the “surprise” announcement of a second, previously undisclosed “nuclear facility”? Some thoughts:
The War in Afghanistan
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Two-Front Wars — Theirs and Ours Something is not quite right about the conventional wisdom about the Afghanistan war.
Three Dangerous Stooges
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Last week, three dictators — from Iran, Libya and Venezuela — delivered lunatic hate speeches at the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Being Frank
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner It Would Have Been Easier Just to Tell the Truth Given the recent arrests of several jihadist plotters, we can be thankful that Obama did not, as once promised in various early manifestations, end renditions, wiretaps, intercepts, and the Patriot Act (“shoddy and dangerous”).
The Obsolescence of a Slur
Criticisms of Obama are increasingly met by cries of “Racist!” Are his critics racists? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The charge of racism has been leveled against critics of President Obama’s healthcare reform by everyone from New York Times columnists, racial activists, and Democratic legislators to senior statesmen like Jimmy Carter (“It’s a racist attitude”), […]
A PR Nightmare for the Obamas
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner One can understand an American president’s lobbying for an American city to obtain the Olympics, but the blitz by the Obamas proved a PR nightmare. Let us count the ways:
Bitter Harvests to Come
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Reflections on the Speech to Congress If one were to sum up the Obama speech to the joint session of Congress, it is the same old, same old formula: “I am a uniquely post-American fresh start; the era of Bush and our dreadful past is over; and because this […]
Some Signs of the Times
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media How to distill the news? After watching it far too much the past nine months, I offer five random conclusions from what I think is going on in the age of Obama.
The Past Is Not Quite Past
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media War II Thoughts We can learn a lot about our present dilemmas through looking at the past. This month I’m teaching an intensive class on World War II, and again reminded how history is never really history.
A Fishy Tale
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services California is in an uproar over water. Nearly a quarter-million acres worth of contracted federal irrigation deliveries have been cut from the big farms of the west side of the San Joaquin Valley in central California.
Sleeping Through Speeches
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The World’s President The President’s U.N.* talk was more of the same, same old formula: Me, me, me/then Bush blew it/then I came/and, presto, the waters parted.
Barack Obama, College Administrator
Is the commander-in-chief really president of the University of America? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online If you are confused by the first nine months of the Obama administration, take solace that there is at least a pattern.
A Devolving, Depressing, and Debased Debate
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Policies No, Obama Maybe… Barack Obama is charismatic. He can charm, and has mastered the art of set cadence, pause, articulation, and voice modulation, in the manner of a JFK.