Identity Politics

Derbyshire Learns What We Cannot Talk About

by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine Wittgenstein once wrote, “What we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.” Ex-National Review writer John Derbyshire has just learned the modern American version of this truth. Share This

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Beware of the Mob

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Our Modern Lynch Mob Democracies are in general prone to fits of the mob. Just read the Thucydidean account of the debate of Mytilene. Share This

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The Strange Case of Trayvon Martin

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Racial-Relations Regression The Trayvon Martin tragedy, by the time the entire process is played out, will reflect poorly on lots of people and groups, who in mob-like fashion have weighed in before all the facts in the case are fully aired. Share This

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Obama’s Demagoguery

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The atrocity at first seemed undeniable: A white vigilante, with a Germanic name no less, hunted down and then executed a tiny black youth — who, from his published grammar-school photos, seemed about twelve — while he was walking innocently and eating candy in an exclusive gated community …

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Achievement Trumps Identity Politics

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Jeremy Lin’s so-far-brief but amazing performance for the New York Knicks has set the world on fire in a mere month. Share This

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The New Commandments on the Barn Wall

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Ten Commandments for Our New Century If you think our quiet lives of desperation can sometimes become a bit much, relax. Here are some guidelines to soothe your frustration — a few commandments that make sense out of today’s nonsense. Share This

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Being There–the Obama Sequel

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Rip Van Obama President Obama went into a deep slumber in December. When he woke up this January, he found himself back even in the polls, with neither a press conference nor another overhyped presidential televised address to be heard. Share This

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Rage On–and On and On…

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Occupy Wall Street? I’ve been following the Wall Street protests, in New York and elsewhere. I read as well of the Democratic Party’s sorta interest in turning the anger of a few into a left-wing Tea-Party-like movement of many. Share This

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Obama’s Racial Crisis

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the current racial circus, the president of the United States, in addressing an assembly of upscale black professionals and political leaders, adopts the style of a Southern Baptist preacher of the 1960s. Share This

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