by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Revolutions We Missed Sometimes societies just plod along, oblivious that the world is being reinvented right under their noses. In 2000, one never saw pedestrians bumping into themselves as they glued their noses to iPhones. Share This
An Anatomy of a Most Peculiar Institution
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media A Campus Full of Contradictions Almost everything about the modern university is a paradox. It has become a sort of industry gone rogue that embraces practices that a Wal-Mart or Halliburton would never get away with. It is exempt from scrutiny in the fashion that the Left ceased talking… Continue reading An Anatomy of a Most Peculiar Institution
What We Do Not Want to Hear Anymore
Are You ‘Them!’?
What We Do Not Want to Hear Anymore
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media NO MAS, MR. PRESIDENT The State of the Union could have been written [1] by a computer program. All the now familiar Obama furniture was in the room: the mock outrage at “them,” the psychodramatic first-person boasting (as in, “I will oppose..,” “I will not work with…,” “I will decline…,” “I… Continue reading What We Do Not Want to Hear Anymore
The Fannie and Freddie University
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media It’s More than Just PC The traditionalist critique of the university — I made it myself over thirteen years ago in the co-authored Who Killed Homer? — was that somewhere around the time of the Vietnam War, higher education changed radically for the worse. Share This
Wall Street’s Disgruntles Utopians
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The Occupy Wall Street protesters are looking more and more like the shock troops of the Democratic Party’s electoral tactic of class warfare. Responding to a question about the protesters, the President gave an oblique endorsement when he said, “The American people understand that not everybody has been following… Continue reading Wall Street’s Disgruntles Utopians
Obama’s Paradoxes
Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The 2008 financial crash originated with a housing bubble. Not long ago, the cheap-money policies of the Federal Reserve, the infusion of trillions of dollars in new foreign investment, and the misguided policies of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae all conspired to extend to millions of Americans lots… Continue reading Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere