by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The Wages of Multiculturalism
How strange that the president of Mexico, while a guest on the lawn of the White House, would attack the laws of a U.S. state, while his own country’s immigration laws and policies in relation to Central America have never approached American tolerance. Continue reading “Twin Disasters”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Year That Was
It has been sort of a topos to evoke the specter of 1979. I’ve done it repeatedly, as have other observers. Continue reading “Our 1979”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
America Is Now a Campus, and Obama Is Our Dean
This is the strangest presidency I have seen in my lifetime. Continue reading “America 101 with Dean Obama”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Nuremberg: Triumph of Will
A German remarked on our Tour 2010 that he found it odd that, given all the graffiti one sees, there is never any defacement on the great stone stage at Nuremberg (patterned by Albert Speer after the Pergamon altar) that is immortalized in so many film clips of Hitler screaming to the masses in the 1930s. Continue reading “History Down the Danube”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Kingsburg, California, is a sort of small town that modernism forgot, at least by the measure of the usual landscapes of the Central Valley. Continue reading “Reflections on Small Town America”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
HBO’s 10-part series on the Pacific campaign of World War II just ended. That story of island-hopping was mostly about how the old breed of U.S. Marines fought diehard Japanese infantrymen face-to-face in places like Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Guam and Okinawa. Continue reading “Marinestan”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
A tiny flotilla of “peace ships” sets out to run an Israeli blockade of the Gaza coast. Continue reading “The Art of Seaborne Humiliation”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In just a few months the brave new dream world as we knew it has died — but with a whimper, not a bang. Continue reading “Death of the Postmodernist Dream”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
I’ve been over here in Europe for about ten days, getting a different perspective on our illustrious media and how it is handling the various Obama “troubles.” Continue reading “What Our Media Taught Me”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Vienna — Walk the beautiful streets in Munich, Strasbourg, and Vienna, and you can see why Europeans thought in the last decades that they had reached the end of history. Continue reading “History Returns to Europe”