The History Channel’s Distortion of the Crusades
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch I recently taped and am watching a documentary, “The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross,” on the History Channel. Share This
America’s First Postmodern Presidency
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Postmodern Truth One of the chief tenets of postmodernism is relativism — the notion that neither morality nor wisdom is absolute and definable, but instead simply predicated on what those with power and advantage say they are. Share This
Who’s To Judge?
Sotomayor and the defense of racial identity as judicial wisdom. by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner When Words Don’t Mean Anything Rather than an attempt to defend empirically Sotomayor’s suggestion that Latinas are superior, in the judicial sense, to white men, we have been given a variety of postmodern contexts, constructing what she “really” meant:
The Sotomayor Nomination
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time? Michelle Obama is now weighing in on the Sotomayor nomination, and I think it will prove a serious political mistake, since she is reverting back to her “me too” campaign mode, in that she emphasizes both race
Reflections on an Age Now Fading . . .
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Goodbye, Europe We are on our third, and last, leg of this year’s tour, and headed today from Chania, Crete to Athens. Share This
The Muslim World Address
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner President Obama has a much-publicized upcoming talk in Cairo that is rather pretentiously packaged as an address to the “Muslim world.” Share This
Israel’s Cuban Missile Crisis–All the Time
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Why would the Iranian government spend billions of dollars on trying to develop a few first-generation nuclear bombs (as nearly everyone believes is the case) when the country is so poor that it has to ration gasoline? Share This
Bush Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obama continues to trash Bush in words–but his actions speak louder. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Last July I wrote a column entitled “Barack W. Bush” outlining how candidate Barack Obama was strangely emulating Bush policies — even as he was trashing the president. Share This
Wandering Around Europe
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Beauty of Europe One can see why millions of Muslims flock to Europe. Oh, I know it is the economic and political dividends of Western consensual governments and state capitalism that provide such material and spiritual freedom. Share This
Lost in the Labyrinth of Race
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Sotomayor Nomination and the Politics of Racial Identity One of the unexpected results of the Sotomayor nomination is a refocusing on the politics of racial identity and the fossilized institutions of affirmative action — or the belief that the U.S. government should use its vast power to ensure