Campaign Rhetoric and Presidential Reality: A Brief History
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services American presidential election rhetoric always paints the incumbent as incompetent in foreign policy, the challenger insightful and skillful.
More California Dreaming
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner One of the strangest things about the current California meltdown is how no one in state government here ever pauses to ask simple questions like: Why do we have the largest annual deficit with one of the highest sales tax and income tax rates in the country?
Are Slave-girls in Islam Equivalent to Animals?
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Many are now aware that the Koran — that is, Allah’s word — permits, not just polygamy, but forced concubinage (sex with captive women), according to Koran 4:3: “Marry such women as seem good to you, two and three and four; but if you fear that you will not do […]
For the People?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner [Editor’s Note: These Corners together show democratic ethics, laws, and oversight seem irrelevant to those who “did it all for the people.” At the same time, tribalism and aristocratic privilege and paternalism seem on the rise.]
Desperately Seeking Caroline
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Caroline Kennedy’s Moment — A Sad Reflection of Our Times The probable appointment of Caroline Kennedy, the 51-year-old daughter of former President John Kennedy, to fill Secretary-of-State nominee Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate seat is both laughable and yet a parable for our bankrupt times.
California Declares a Fiscal Crisis! You Think?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media After various special sessions of the Legislature, assorted cries from the heart of our Governor, and the usual media sensationalism about an amorphous “they” who did this to us, California is once again broke.
That Was Then, This Is Now
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Hot Rod is more than hot We don’t know to what degree Blagogate affects members of Obama’s team, and hope only that after a too long election, we get on with our new president and looming crises.
Blame Bush, Obama–or Us?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When someone screams about a terrible policy of the present administration, just pose four questions:
The Defense of Thugs
Sacco and Vanzetti case set a precedent for anti-Americanisms. by Terry Scambray The Fresno Bee Hatred for America is not a recent phenomenon. Despite the opportunities offered in America for all races, creeds and nationalities, a tradition persists that Americans are racist, superficially religious and uncomfortable with foreigners.
No Monopoly on Moral Paralysis
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner We usually associate Westernism with globalized notions of consumer capitalism, free markets, advocacy for consensual government, and human and property rights.
Blagotrocious
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Like some of you, I had the following reactions reading the transcripts of Illinois’s Governor Blagojevich:
The Humanities Move Off Campus
by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal Autumn 2008 Until recently, classical education served as the foundation of the wider liberal arts curriculum, which in turn defined the mission of the traditional university.
Back to the Old 9/11 World
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services For three days, Islamist gunmen nearly shut down Mumbai, the financial center of India.
Political Madness–Some Hotspots
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner New and Improved? As Mark Steyn has warned for years, the Western attitude toward reports of terrorism is about as anti-empirical as one can imagine.
Parallel Lives
In politics today, intention, symbolism, and rhetoric are everything; facts, nothing. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Roman moralist Plutarch wrote a number of parallel lives of illustrious Greek and Roman notables to offer his Greek-reading audience ethical lessons about character, virtue, and culture.
The Hysterical Style
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Politicians now predict the implosion of the U.S. auto industry. Headlines warn that the entire banking system is on the verge of utter collapse.
Bush Through the Obama Prism
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I think Obama may do more for George Bush’s reputation than anyone thinks.
Some Thanksgiving: Random Politically-Incorrect Reasons To Be Optimistic
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media 1. Tempered not melted. The question is not whether America is in decline, but whether it is in decline at a more rapid pace than true of Europe, Russia, or Asia.
Time Warp
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner ‘Hope And Change’ Meet ‘A Return to Normalcy’? It seems that, on the one hand, some conservatives are relieved that on matters of the Bush tax policies, the reaction to the financial meltdown, and foreign policy, including two wars, Obama has suddenly triangulated and, in sober and judicious fashion, […]
What Went Wrong?
Well, it wasn’t conservatism. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Conservatives have already in the three weeks after the election come up with three competing explanations — and remedies — for their congressional defeats and the victory of the relatively unknown Barack Obama.