A Year Like None Other
It usually takes decades to fit in all the tragicomedy of 2008. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The three great stories of 2008 were the financial meltdown, the turn-about in Iraq, and the Chicago Way. Share This
Perverse Thoughts about this Perverse Recession
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I do not understand at all this going into debt for almost another trillion dollars, and then immediately promising to balance the budget soon (like blowing off your foot near an emergency room), or how “stimulate” differs from “borrow,” or why the more noble victim is the one who sought
Some Reflections in the Times of Hysteria
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Imagine… Had anyone said a few months ago that the federal government would step in to provide a trillion dollars to subsidize gasoline — to bring it down to $1.85 a gallon nationwide from prices that were exceeding $4 a gallon — we would have had a national debate.
War and Peace–and Deceit–in Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Editor’s note: Substantial portions of the following essay made up part of Mr. Ibrahim’s written testimony that was presented to Congress on February 12, 2009 Today, in a time of wars and rumors of wars emanating from the Islamic world — from the current conflict in Gaza, to the saber-rattling
An ‘Impulsive’ America?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Barack Obama’s first TV interview was with the Dubai-based, partly Saudi-funded Al Arabiya satellite channel. Share This
Our Battered American
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I am meeting a few battered Americans these days. There are not many left, but those that are seem to sound alike. Yes, I think I am beginning to understand Mr. Battered American, and he sounds tired and a bit like this. Share This
Pause and Take a Deep Breath
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Five Easy Pieces I. “Bush did it!” Sec. Clinton went abroad this week and immediately, and yes, gratuitously, blamed Bush. Share This
Ancient Wisdom: Depression, Recession, Downturn…Whatever
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media My grandfather once said something to me around 1970 that I have never forgotten. He was born in my house in 1890 (or rather, I in his) — twenty years after his grandmother built the present home. Share This
The Audacity of Irony
“Hope and change” meet reality. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We have seen irony before, when the moralist Jimmy Carter chastised us with sermons about our paranoid, inordinate fear of Communism and our amoral unconcern with human rights, even as the dividends of his policies were the Soviets in Afghanistan and the Ayatollah
Hardly the Best and Brightest
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Most historians agree that earthquakes, droughts or barbarians did not unravel classical Athens or imperial Rome. Share This