Our Historically Challenged President
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In his speech last week in Cairo, President Obama proclaimed he was a “student of history.” But despite Barack Obama’s image as an Ivy-League-educated intellectual, he lacks historical competency, both in areas of facts and interpretation.
The World Turned Upside Down
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner They’re rioting in Iran over a probably fraudulent election and the use of violence to suppress dissent — part of the “robust” debate that President Obama just welcomed.
David Letterman, Rev. Wright, and Thoughts on a Creepy Culture
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Demise of David Letterman I had a number of exchanges on the Palin-Letterman controversy (see below). Where to start on David Letterman’s attack on Palin on her visit to New York to do charitable work, accompanied by her 14-year-old daughter Willow?
I No Longer Quite Believe . . .
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I Am Afraid I No Longer Believe . . . …That we have an inquisitive American media as we once knew it. There has emerged something as bad as state-sanctioned coercion — which we could at least identify, and thus struggle against.
Respecting the Faithful vs. Respecting the Faith
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch During the pope’s recent Mideast visit, the media reported that he has “deep respect for Islam.” That exact phrase appeared in the Associated Press, AFP,BBC, Jerusalem Post, Washington Times, and Al-Jazeera.
The Diversity Mess
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has scolded Americans for being “cowards” and not talking more about race.
The Reckoning
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Obama Versus the Way of the Universe I wish the President well, but he is butting up against human nature. And that is a fight one cannot win.
The Age of Middle East Atonement
Therapeutic efforts to disguise the truth never really work. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Obama made an earnest effort — as is his way in matters of discord — to split the difference with the Islamic world.
The History Channel’s Distortion of the Crusades
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch I recently taped and am watching a documentary, “The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross,” on the History Channel.
America’s First Postmodern Presidency
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Postmodern Truth One of the chief tenets of postmodernism is relativism — the notion that neither morality nor wisdom is absolute and definable, but instead simply predicated on what those with power and advantage say they are.
Who’s To Judge?
Sotomayor and the defense of racial identity as judicial wisdom. by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner When Words Don’t Mean Anything Rather than an attempt to defend empirically Sotomayor’s suggestion that Latinas are superior, in the judicial sense, to white men, we have been given a variety of postmodern contexts, constructing what she “really” meant:
The Sotomayor Nomination
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time? Michelle Obama is now weighing in on the Sotomayor nomination, and I think it will prove a serious political mistake, since she is reverting back to her “me too” campaign mode, in that she emphasizes both race […]
Reflections on an Age Now Fading . . .
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Goodbye, Europe We are on our third, and last, leg of this year’s tour, and headed today from Chania, Crete to Athens.
The Muslim World Address
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner President Obama has a much-publicized upcoming talk in Cairo that is rather pretentiously packaged as an address to the “Muslim world.”
Israel’s Cuban Missile Crisis–All the Time
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Why would the Iranian government spend billions of dollars on trying to develop a few first-generation nuclear bombs (as nearly everyone believes is the case) when the country is so poor that it has to ration gasoline?
Bush Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obama continues to trash Bush in words–but his actions speak louder. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Last July I wrote a column entitled “Barack W. Bush” outlining how candidate Barack Obama was strangely emulating Bush policies — even as he was trashing the president.
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.