America’s Problem of Assimilation
by Bruce S. Thornton Defining Ideas The current Supreme Court term has been dominated by the Constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare legislation better known as Obamacare. Share This
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The New Reactionaries
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Our New Regressivism About fifteen years ago, many liberals began to self-identify as progressives — partly because of the implosion of the Great Society and the Reagan reaction that had tarnished the liberal brand and left it as something akin to “permissive” or “naïve,” partly because “progressive” was supposedly
Elizabeth Warren and the Frauds of Diversity
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine For anyone familiar with the American university and its gospel of multicultural diversity, the revelation that Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren exploited her 1/32 Cherokee ancestry to pass as a minority is a dog-bites-man story. Share This
Race–on the Brain
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Someone named Elspeth Reeve, in an Atlantic posting, is suggesting that the Derbyshire essay was no different from other commentary on National Reviewon the Trayvon Martin case, citing my observations, along with those of others at NR, as proof: Share This
The New Anti-Semitism
by Victor Davis Hanson Defining Ideas Not long ago, The Economist ran an unsigned editorial called the “Auschwitz Complex.” The unnamed author blamed serial Middle East tensions on both Israel’s unwarranted sense of victimhood, accrued from the Holocaust, and its unwillingness to “to give up its empire.” Share This
The Trayvon Martin Case and the Growing Racial Divide
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Two Racial Narratives — and the Current Hysteria Polls show that the Trayvon Martin case has split the country apart over perceptions of race and justice, in ways that may dwarf the polarities of the O.J. Simpson trial days of 1994. Share This
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
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
Obama a Creature of the Corrupt University
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The November presidential election was the favorite topic at the Freedom Center’s West Coast Retreat last weekend. Amidst the prognostications and arguments about which Republican would or should get the nomination Share This
From the Trayvon Martin Tragedy to a National Travesty
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Rules of Outrage — Or Why the Trayvon Martin Tragedy Divides the Country Every year hundreds of Americans are shot and killed under controversial circumstances, where the evidence is incomplete and subject to dispute, often making impossible an immediate charge of murder or manslaughter, at least until further