The End of Post-Racialism
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPageMagazine.com So much for Obama striking a new tone on race. President Obama’s response during his press conference to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates — that the Cambridge police officer “acted stupidly,” despite Obama’s confession that he didn’t know what really had happened — should lay to rest […]
Our Angry Aristocracy
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Scolding Americans for our various sins is proving popular among an elite group of self-appointed moralists.
Lose, Lose When You Talk About Race
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Why the Gates Affair Bored Us President Obama and the subject of race remind me of the proverbial camel’s back and straws: the American people shrugged off “typical white person”, then forgave the clingers speech.
Mediterranean Reflections on What Went Wrong
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Italy… I have been traveling as a lecturer on a Hillsdale College Byzantium Cruise (from Venice to Athens, with several stops in the Adriatic, Mediterranean, and Aegean) for the last few days, and here are some eccentric reflections on civilizations of the past.
Entertainment Gone Awry
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner What’s Hollywood to Do? Over the last eight years we saw Fahrenheit 911, Syriana, Redacted,Rendition, Stop Loss, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, and a host of other movies released about the U.S. war on terror and the Iraqi conflict.
The Blues: Disappointment in the Era of Hope and Change
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Gloves Come Off? I think the new combativeness coming out of the White House will only increase — given growing unhappiness over increased joblessness, the omnipresence of old Clinton-era attack dogs, new public doubts that vast new government programs are really the answer to what was in part […]
Big Government Medicine
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Big new taxes. Big new spending. Big new government. This seems to be the proposed cure for the Wall Street-inspired recession.
Obama’s Puzzling Approach to the Muslim World
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media President Barack Obama and I have one thing in common shared by few Americans: we were brought up by at least one parent — biological or step is irrelevant — who was born and raised in an Islamic milieu. Intimately aware of the inevitable effects of this, I must question […]
What Was That ‘Stupidity’ All About?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Gates incident seems to have had little to do with race but a lot to do with the natural human misunderstandings that happen every day in police scenes — and its final twist has everything to do with insider privilege and aristocratic disdain.
Obama’s Path Not Taken
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media What Might Have Happened Remember Obama’s initial signature speech (e.g., “there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America”), and all the subsequent conciliatory talk of no blue state, no red state America?
Presidents Aren’t What They Used to Be
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services From 1933 to 1960, America had nearly three decades of fairly successful presidencies — through the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the threat of nuclear Armageddon.
The Psychology of Debt: Obama’s Rendezvous with Political Reality
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Debt Matters Over the last two decades it became an article of popular faith that budget deficits did not matter that much.
Continuity: St. Francis of Assisi, Fr. Zakaria Botros, and Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch While not formally connected, two books I recently finished reading — St. Francis of Assisi and the Conversion of Muslims and Defying Death: Zakaria Botross, Apostle to Islam — complement each other very well, specifically by establishing continuity between medieval and modern Islam, and, in so doing, demonstrating that Islamic intolerance has a long […]
On Shearing Sheep
Obama’s economic plans are relentlessly hostile to small business. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online You don’t produce wool by skinning the sheep. But that seems to be the present strategy to get small businesses to begin hiring, buying, and expanding.
War and Taxes
Two strikes against the new administration by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Look Back in Anger at Iraq It is striking how Obama references past mistakes on Afghanistan and emphasizes the now-tired “reset”-button themes — striking because of what is left unsaid.
Who Was Michael Jackson?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When Michael Jackson tragically died two weeks ago, millions were shocked.
Growing Worries about Our Pied Piper
Americans are catching on to Obama’s fiscal sins and rhetorical devices. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Recent news that President Obama’s approval ratings are beginning to slip is understandable. Even popular leaders lose appeal once they have to govern, and therefore offend, rather than merely promise and please.
The War Against the Producers
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Stimulus, Stimulus and Not a Drop… A “stimulus” of nearly a trillion dollars was proposed, without which we were told, unemployment would skyrocket and credit would tighten further.
A Thug’s Primer
How to win liberal friends and oppress your people. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online How strange that our rather nondescript, sober friends abroad do not garner attention from the current administration, yet overt enemies in Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Venezuela, and the West Bank most certainly do.
Our Chrysalis Stage
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Only Room for One Obama? I got a lot of flak the last year for writing two or three columns suggesting the Europeans and other Leftists abroad might be careful about what they wish for in Obama: he might well leap-frog over them, leaving them all with the world […]