by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Anyone who has lived in Greece can see why the question of default or a “haircut” is not a matter of if, but when. Continue reading “Thoughts on the Greek Madness”
Author: victorhanson
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.
Collapse of a Rotten Edifice
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Nemesis is always hot on the trail of hubris, across time and space, and the goddess has been particularly busy in destroying the carefully crafted images of Bono, John Edwards, Timothy Geithner, Al Gore, Eliot Spitzer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Anthony Weiner, and a host of others. Continue reading “Collapse of a Rotten Edifice”
Europe is Warning Us
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Rome — If Americans think fuel and food prices are high, they should try Europe, where both can be nearly double those in the United States, while salaries are often lower. Continue reading “Europe is Warning Us”
Bush Did It! Bush Didn’t Do It!
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
During the 2008 campaign Barack Obama ran more against lame-duck President Bush than against his Republican opponent, John McCain. Continue reading “Bush Did It! Bush Didn’t Do It!”
Now That’s a Higher Education Bubble
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The CSU system — California’s multi-campus university system, and indeed the largest in the world — is once again faced with a $1 billion annual funding shortfall, and might have to raise tuition by 30 percent. Continue reading “Now That’s a Higher Education Bubble”
Land of the Lawless
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
When the Law Does Not Pay
I do not think in California there is much law these days. We are regressing to the days of my grandfather’s stories who used to relate to me a wild Central Valley circa 1900 when the sheriff was a day away. Continue reading “Land of the Lawless”
What We Might Remember This Memorial Day
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The world is a better place because Adolf Hitler did not preserve his conquest of the European continent, and because the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere of Hideki Tojo and his militarists imploded at Midway, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa. Continue reading “What We Might Remember This Memorial Day”
Back to the Pre-American World
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Is America’s preeminent world role over?
That’s what a recent New Yorker essay, based on interviews with presidential advisers, claimed. It characterized the new Obama foreign-relations style as “leading from behind” — given the supposed inevitable American decline and growing unpopularity. Continue reading “Back to the Pre-American World”
An Honest Obama Campaign
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Given what we know now, I think Obama’s summer-2008 campaign speeches should have sounded something like this: Continue reading “An Honest Obama Campaign”
Where Dreams Die
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
I was given a great gift — but see below — to travel throughout California the last week, by land and by air over the state. It was hard to determine whether the natural beauty of the landscape or the ingenuity of our ancestors was the more impressive. Continue reading “Where Dreams Die”