All the borrowing at home and fighting abroad? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The first year of the Obama administration has been a vertiginous pile of confusions and contradictions. In hunting for a theme to its decision making, we might start with Obama’s relation to his predecessor. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media What’s going on with race relations? I just read an account of racial tension at UC San Diego, involving largely white students of a fraternity crassly parodying black history month. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media California is a rich state — as the world found out the last century. It has the best farmland in the world, much of it watered by gravity-fed irrigation from the Sierra. Its timber acreage is vast. Share This
Obama needs to clarify his anti-terrorism policy. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online By all accounts, President Obama has vastly increased the number of Predator drone strikes during his 13 months in office and expanded the theater of missile operations by thousands of square miles. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The United States may very well owe a crushing $20 trillion by 2020. And thus President Obama last week named a bipartisan commission to find ways to address our national debt. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Every President starts to wear on the public. But the omnipresent Obama has become wearisome in record time. Why? Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner 1) American exceptionalism — Perhaps it derives in part from our putting a higher premium on freedom and liberty than, as in the French and other European cases, egalitarianism and fraternity; also, we were truly the first multi-ethnic state that sought to embrace a common culture rather than carve out
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Here are a few things that I think don’t quite compute. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Greek Lesson No, I don’t mean the classical Greeks, but their present-day counterparts. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Before envisioning dramatic change, the Roman emperor Augustus is said to have warned, “Make haste slowly.” The reformer Augustus was eager for radical social transformation. Share This