Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Nearly every week, another psychodrama arises between the United States and its NATO partners. Europeans blame the Trump administration for the usual things—a lack of cordiality and bombastic threats. But two truths, rarely spoken, characterize all these spats. One is hypocrisy; the other is insecurity. Take Trump’s recent demand that… Continue reading The Same Old, Same Old European Runaround
Trump’s New War Production Board?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The left weighs in on anything that Trump is against, which drives it to lionize criminals like Abrego Garcia, champion open borders, and oppose increased oil and natural gas production. And they are against anything Trump is for. So often, they did not care much about big-city crime rates, supported… Continue reading Trump’s New War Production Board?
The Tentacles of the Social Media Octopus
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness A shared theme in all dystopian explorations of future and current totalitarian regimes—whether China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, or Cuba—is government control of all media information, fueled by electronic surveillance. A skeptical public learns to say one thing publicly but quite another privately. It nervously nods yes at the news… Continue reading The Tentacles of the Social Media Octopus
Technology and Wisdom
Tech advancements make it too easy to forget age-old realities. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Americans now have more computer power in their smart phones than did the Pentagon in all its computer banks just 30 years ago. We board a sophisticated jet and assume that the flight is no more dangerous than… Continue reading Technology and Wisdom
The Obamacare Generation
The ACA depends on Millennials picking up the tab — as they already are for other entitlements — in the midst of a bad economy. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online There are all sorts of time bombs embedded within Obamacare. Will we force doctors to treat the millions of new Medicaid patients who… Continue reading The Obamacare Generation
A Culture in Ruins
by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Lady Gaga reportedly spent $25 million on pop art to jazz up her new and apparently underwhelming album. In contrast, Miley Cyrus’ sexual twerking at the MTV Music Video Awards earned her more millions by exposing her rather unimpressive anatomy. Both make the once vulgar Madonna seem like June Cleaver, but at least… Continue reading A Culture in Ruins
ObamaCare and the Techocratic Abyss
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine The continuing disaster of the Obamacare website, like the law itself, illustrates one of the biggest bad ideas of the Progressive movement, one that reflects a central assumption of modernity: that new knowledge is now available that will allow an elite of technicians to order society more justly… Continue reading ObamaCare and the Techocratic Abyss