Our 1979
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Year That Was It has been sort of a topos to evoke the specter of 1979. I’ve done it repeatedly, as have other observers.
America 101 with Dean Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media America Is Now a Campus, and Obama Is Our Dean This is the strangest presidency I have seen in my lifetime.
History Down the Danube
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Nuremberg: Triumph of Will A German remarked on our Tour 2010 that he found it odd that, given all the graffiti one sees, there is never any defacement on the great stone stage at Nuremberg (patterned by Albert Speer after the Pergamon altar) that is immortalized in so many […]
Reflections on Small Town America
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Kingsburg, California, is a sort of small town that modernism forgot, at least by the measure of the usual landscapes of the Central Valley.
Marinestan
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services HBO’s 10-part series on the Pacific campaign of World War II just ended. That story of island-hopping was mostly about how the old breed of U.S. Marines fought diehard Japanese infantrymen face-to-face in places like Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Guam and Okinawa.
The Art of Seaborne Humiliation
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A tiny flotilla of “peace ships” sets out to run an Israeli blockade of the Gaza coast.
Death of the Postmodernist Dream
Obama’s dream of a new world order has died a quiet death. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In just a few months the brave new dream world as we knew it has died — but with a whimper, not a bang.
What Our Media Taught Me
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I’ve been over here in Europe for about ten days, getting a different perspective on our illustrious media and how it is handling the various Obama “troubles.”
History Returns to Europe
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Vienna — Walk the beautiful streets in Munich, Strasbourg, and Vienna, and you can see why Europeans thought in the last decades that they had reached the end of history.
Our Chief Confessor
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The first duty of national leaders is to worry about the self-interest of their own countries; utopian internationalism can come later.
The Turkish Government: Global Arbiter of Ethnic Violence?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The virulent worldwide reaction to Israeli’s handling of the Gaza flotilla has been quite instructive.
The Technocrats’ New Clothes
Masters of the Universe don’t looks so omnipotent. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the last year, many of the dreams of an emerging international elite have imploded — and this, in a new century that was to usher in a regime of global liberal ecumenism.
The New Old German Problem
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Reflections on Germany Munich — I’ve been walking the last two days through Munich. Much of the city core was bombed out by the allies by spring 1945. Yet today there is little evidence of such destruction.
New Trickle Down Theory
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Truly Amazing Fact One wonders not that President Obama tells untruths (e.g. no middle-class tax increase, health-care “reform” will control costs, C-Span’s airing of healthcare debates, listing pending legislation on the internet for five days, closing down Guantanamo within a year, advocacy for all combat forces out of […]
A Nation of Profilers
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Profiling is considered among the worst of American sins.
Shall We Laugh or Cry at Morgan Hill?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media What are we to make of the five students who were temporarily suspended by the administration at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill for purportedly seeking to provoke — by the wearing of various American flag insignia, no less — Mexican-American students who were at the time celebrating, […]
The Other European Volcano
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Five years ago, the European Union’s account of itself resonated with end-of history triumphalism.
A New Nowhere Debate?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Bad Time Now would be a particularly bad time for the president to push for amnesty under the rubric of comprehensive immigration reform — an approach that failed Bush, despite economic good times and supposedly a supportive base.
News Beneath the News
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media From the Embarrassing to the Pathetic I don’t want to beat the proverbial dead horse, but these media polarities are getting to the point of absurdity. Bush, the lazy golfer while we were at war; Obama the engaged commander-in-chief playing golf for needed relaxation more in one year than […]
Greek Tragedies
Violent reaction to bad news in Greece is unique but not surprising given its past. by Victor Davis Hanson Wall Street Journal Online Draping the Acropolis with a hammer-and-sickle banner might seem a stupid public relations stunt — especially as a bankrupt Greece seeks to reassure foreign capitalist investors to save Hellenic socialism.