Liberals

VDH UltraOur Great Illegal Immigration Mythologies. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Myth #2: Our two-party establishments oppose illegal immigration. 1) Corporate America/the Chamber of Commerce/the Wall Street Journal business intelligentsia all welcome open borders. They oppose E-Verify, The Wall, deportations, etc. Under their euphemism “comprehensive immigration reform” they want to return to the Reaganite Simpson–Mazzoli Act nothingness that destroyed border enforcement and the […]

Share This

Progressives Should Back Up Their Rhetoric on Immigration

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Liberals, invite illegal aliens to live in your communities. There are lots of short-term solutions to address the wave of immigrants who have swarmed the border in an effort to enter the U.S. illegally. Why not use the thousands of currently half-empty residence halls at American colleges and universities

Share This

Where Are the Left’s Modern Muckrakers?

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was an epic fight of so-called muckrakers — journalists and novelists such as Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell, along with trust-busting politicians like Teddy Roosevelt — against rail, steel, and oil monopolies. Whatever one thought of

Share This

The Rapid ‘Progress’ of Progressivism

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review It leads to an endless race for equality and erodes prior rules.Not long ago I waited for a flight to board. The plane took off 45 minutes late. There were only two attendants to accommodate eleven passengers who had requested wheelchair assistance. Such growing efforts to ensure that the

Share This