June 2010

Our 1979

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Year That Was It has been sort of a topos to evoke the specter of 1979. I’ve done it repeatedly, as have other observers. Share This

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America 101 with Dean Obama

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media America Is Now a Campus, and Obama Is Our Dean This is the strangest presidency I have seen in my lifetime. Share This

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History Down the Danube

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Nuremberg: Triumph of Will A German remarked on our Tour 2010 that he found it odd that, given all the graffiti one sees, there is never any defacement on the great stone stage at Nuremberg (patterned by Albert Speer after the Pergamon altar) that is immortalized in so many …

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Reflections on Small Town America

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Kingsburg, California, is a sort of small town that modernism forgot, at least by the measure of the usual landscapes of the Central Valley. Share This

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Marinestan

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services HBO’s 10-part series on the Pacific campaign of World War II just ended. That story of island-hopping was mostly about how the old breed of U.S. Marines fought diehard Japanese infantrymen face-to-face in places like Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Guam and Okinawa. Share This

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The Art of Seaborne Humiliation

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A tiny flotilla of “peace ships” sets out to run an Israeli blockade of the Gaza coast. Share This

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Death of the Postmodernist Dream

Obama’s dream of a new world order has died a quiet death. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In just a few months the brave new dream world as we knew it has died — but with a whimper, not a bang. Share This

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What Our Media Taught Me

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I’ve been over here in Europe for about ten days, getting a different perspective on our illustrious media and how it is handling the various Obama “troubles.” Share This

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History Returns to Europe

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Vienna — Walk the beautiful streets in Munich, Strasbourg, and Vienna, and you can see why Europeans thought in the last decades that they had reached the end of history. Share This

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Our Chief Confessor

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The first duty of national leaders is to worry about the self-interest of their own countries; utopian internationalism can come later. Share This

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