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.
Hope and Change’s Shelf Life
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner After listening to Obama’s speeches of the last few weeks, I think almost everyone now knows the boilerplate.
Ministers of Truth
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner True, the far Left, in the manner of the far Right’s hatred of Bush’s Iraq War and his support for Israel, has begun to murmur disappointment with Obama.
Is America Premodern or Postmodern?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services During the last 20 years, science and a growing economy gave Americans the most sophisticated and leisured lifestyles in history. We inexpensively call or e-mail anywhere in the world.
The Ways of the Left
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Yes, Nancy, There Really Is a God Nemesis There is an odd sense among Democrats that nemesis simply does not exist.
Amnesiatic
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media That Was Then, This is Now… The current furor over the three water-boarded terrorists is right out of the old Greek idea of excess leading to hubris leading to nemesis leading to destruction. Do we really wish to revisit 2002?
Once Upon a Time in 2002
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services For over a year after the murder of 3,000 innocent people in New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, shell-shocked Americans were gripped by other horrific images of terrorism across the globe.