by Victor Davis Hanson
Pj Media
NO MAS, MR. PRESIDENT
The State of the Union could have been written [1] by a computer program. Continue reading “What We Do Not Want to Hear Anymore”
Month: March 2012
Syrian Ironies
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The more Bashar Assad butchers Syrian dissidents, the more the world community expresses outrage — while it does little to stop the bloodletting. Why? Continue reading “Syrian Ironies”
Europe in the Rearview Mirror
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Dream and the Nightmare
The European Union was always a paradox. Its existence was predicated entirely on the notion of German guilt, translating into massive cash transfers east and south. Continue reading “Europe in the Rearview Mirror”
The Real Point of the Left’s Uproar over Limbaugh
by Bruce S. Thornton
Frontpage Magazine
Rush Limbaugh has got the progressives pitching a fit over some remarks on his radio show about a Georgetown University law student named Sandra Fluke. Fluke had made the preposterous claim, while addressing House Democrats over President Obama’s rule forcing Catholic institutions to pay for contraception, that the cost of birth control was prohibitive for Georgetown law students. Continue reading “The Real Point of the Left’s Uproar over Limbaugh”
History Never Quite Ends
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The European Union and the United Nations, as well as globalization and advanced technology, were supposed to trump age-old cultural, geographical, and national differences and bring people together. Continue reading “History Never Quite Ends”
“Nature Fakery”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Defining Ideas
At the turn of the twentieth century, President Theodore Roosevelt became embroiled in a public controversy over how some writers and naturalists described the natural world in overly anthropomorphic and sentimental terms. Continue reading ““Nature Fakery””
High-Tech Nothing
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Faster or Smarter, Neither, Both?
I am not a Luddite who wants to destroy looms. The modern age has made life comfortable in ways unimaginable just twenty years ago. Continue reading “High-Tech Nothing”
Koran Burning and Destructive Double Standards
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The riots and violence in Afghanistan over some accidentally burned Korans are following a script that by now is all too drearily familiar. Continue reading “Koran Burning and Destructive Double Standards”
Taking Out Dictators
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In the past 40 years, the United States has intervened to go after autocrats in Afghanistan, Grenada, Haiti, Iraq, Libya, Panama, Somalia, and Serbia. We have attacked by air, by land, and by a combination of both. Continue reading “Taking Out Dictators”