Cheney Agonistes
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner What is strange about the furor over the Cheney interviews is that so many of the arguments against them simply have no precedent or logic.
John Ford and the Republicans
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner There has been lots of discussion about David Brooks’s suggestion that the John Ford Western was about community and order — and that this serves as a timely message for the out-in-the-wilderness Republicans to put less emphasis on rugged individualism and more on a sort of community organizing.
President Palin’s First 100 Days
A near disaster. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online WASHINGTON (AP) — The first 100 days of the Palin presidency, according to a consensus of media commentators, have proven a near disaster.
Cracks in the Façade
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Fissures in the Obama Totem Oh, I know that President Obama’s approval ratings are still around 62%. But I also remember that George Bush’s at the end of 2001 got even higher — and stayed at or above 60% through most of 2002, explaining why he increased his congressional […]
Obama’s Foreign Policy Disasters
by Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com FP: Victor Davis Hanson, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Illegal Immigration Realities
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Rendezvous with Reality There are a number of issues on the horizon that cannot simply be hoped and changed away or dismissed with the now accustomed ‘hit the reset’ button/’Bush did it’ throw-away line.
Americans Want It Both Ways
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Today’s Americans inherited the wealthiest nation in history — but only because earlier generations learned how to feed, fuel, finance and defend themselves in ways unrivaled elsewhere.
Questions from Oceania
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Who will Lend? We are going to spend over $3.5 trillion next year, run up an annual debt of $1.7 trillion, and are on schedule to add another $9 trillion to reach an aggregate debt of $20 trillion in eight years.
Why Did Republicans Lose Their Appeal?
And how can they get it back? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Colin Powell keeps insisting that the Republicans lost the presidency because of right-wing extremists like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, who, in his view, have become the public face of the Republican party, and thus will ensure its permanent marginalization.
Nothing New Under the Sun
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Same Old Equality of Result Rather than nitpick about Obama’s envisioned brave new world, I think it wiser to see it in the larger context of age-old divides over the nature of Western democratic and liberal society.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. President
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In matters of foreign policy during the president’s first 100 days, we have seen two Barack Obamas.
Obama’s Abominable Obeisance: Cultural Perspectives
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Is Obama’s deep bow (with slightly bent knee) to the Saudi king as bad as it seems?
Confessions of a Contrarian
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I. I am not on the Obama bus I followed the Obama senatorial campaign and even his early career in Chicago, and confess I was not impressed.
Obamatopia
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media One wonders whether President Obama, for all the soaring rhetoric, grasps why certain nations really do hate us. Does he think a Grozny, Darfur, Rwanda, Serbia, or Tibet happen in reaction to U.S. global sinful conduct?
The Obama Administration and the Monopoly on Education
by Bruce S. Thornton First Principles Part two of a symposium on the educational impact of Obama and the New Progressivism. Read part one on the economic prospects and part three on culture.
Crazy Times–Crazier Ones to Follow
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We are in a weird age. Do the smart thing, we were told, and invest in a 401(k) retirement account. Buy into the American dream and own your own home. But lately it seems that those who put their money in low-earning passbook savings accounts or rented rather […]
The World Likes Us, It Really Likes Us!
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPageMagazine.com Watching Obama’s recent journeys to Europe and Latin America, I was reminded of actress Sally Field’s embarrassing acceptance speech at the 1985 Academy Awards:
Textbook Lies About Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media In recent House hearings dedicated to examining Islamic extremism, I stressed that the fundamental stumbling block to effective policy-making is educational and epistemological.
One Tour Too Many
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I don’t know whether this was the intent or not, but Obama’s weird trip to Latin America — characterized by constant anti-American outbursts from heads of state eager to blame their own failures on Yanquis — probably killed any notion that any sane American would support either further free-trade agreements […]
Piratical Thoughts
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Pirates (the word peiraô is Greek for ‘to try’ or ‘make the attempt’) were common in the ancient world. They appear everywhere from Hellenistic novels to stories about Pompey’s clean-up of the Cilician robbers. Some random thoughts.