Two Californias

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California. Share This

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Julian Assange’s EgoLeaks

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Julian Assange, the public face of WikiLeaks, is, among many things, cowardly. Courageousness would involve meeting with Iranian dissidents, Russian journalists, Pakistani Christians, or Chinese human-rights activists — and then releasing any confidential information that they might have about the torment institutionalized by their countries’ authoritarian regimes. Share

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Why Not Soak the Rich

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services For the last two years, $250,000 in annual income has been an arbitrary line in the sand of a renewed class war. Those above it must have their income taxes raised. Those below it are deemed more virtuous and so deserving of a tax cut. Share This

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Liberal Math

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I grew up in a Democratic household. Share This

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Modern Stupidity

by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com We moderns have managed to combine an incredible mastery of technical knowledge and information with an astonishing ignorance of the traditional wisdom once possessed by an illiterate village elder, and evident for all to see on every page of history. Share This

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An Existential Dilemma

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Unemployment is at 9.8 percent, and the figure is even higher when the long-term unemployed and dispirited are added in. What does President Obama do now? Share This

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Missing W: When the President Was an Adult

by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com Watching the recent interviews with George W. Bush on the occasion of the release of his memoirs has reminded me what it is like to have an adult for president. Share This

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Jerry Brown’s Last Hurrah

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The most interesting current political question is not whether Barack Obama will triangulate after his party’s midterm shellacking — he probably won’t — but what in the world California’s new old governor, Jerry Brown, will do in January 2011. Share This

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