by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The first duty of national leaders is to worry about the self-interest of their own countries; utopian internationalism can come later. Continue reading “Our Chief Confessor”
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.
The Turkish Government: Global Arbiter of Ethnic Violence?
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The virulent worldwide reaction to Israeli’s handling of the Gaza flotilla has been quite instructive. Continue reading “The Turkish Government: Global Arbiter of Ethnic Violence?”
The Technocrats’ New Clothes
Masters of the Universe don’t looks so omnipotent.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In the last year, many of the dreams of an emerging international elite have imploded — and this, in a new century that was to usher in a regime of global liberal ecumenism. Continue reading “The Technocrats’ New Clothes”
The New Old German Problem
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Reflections on Germany
Munich — I’ve been walking the last two days through Munich. Much of the city core was bombed out by the allies by spring 1945. Yet today there is little evidence of such destruction. Continue reading “The New Old German Problem”
New Trickle Down Theory
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The Truly Amazing Fact
One wonders not that President Obama tells untruths (e.g. no middle-class tax increase, health-care “reform” will control costs, C-Span’s airing of healthcare debates, listing pending legislation on the internet for five days, closing down Guantanamo within a year, advocacy for all combat forces out of Iraq by March 2008, no lobbyists in government, an end to earmarks, and all the old ones about public campaign financing, the actual relationships with Wright, Ayers, Khalidi, Blago, etc.), since all politicians fib. Continue reading “New Trickle Down Theory”
A Nation of Profilers
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Profiling is considered among the worst of American sins. Continue reading “A Nation of Profilers”
Shall We Laugh or Cry at Morgan Hill?
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
What are we to make of the five students who were temporarily suspended by the administration at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill for purportedly seeking to provoke — by the wearing of various American flag insignia, no less — Mexican-American students who were at the time celebrating, with some Mexican flags, Cinco de Mayo Day? Continue reading “Shall We Laugh or Cry at Morgan Hill?”
The Other European Volcano
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Five years ago, the European Union’s account of itself resonated with end-of history triumphalism. Continue reading “The Other European Volcano”
A New Nowhere Debate?
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Bad Time
Now would be a particularly bad time for the president to push for amnesty under the rubric of comprehensive immigration reform — an approach that failed Bush, despite economic good times and supposedly a supportive base. Continue reading “A New Nowhere Debate?”
News Beneath the News
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
From the Embarrassing to the Pathetic
I don’t want to beat the proverbial dead horse, but these media polarities are getting to the point of absurdity. Bush, the lazy golfer while we were at war; Obama the engaged commander-in-chief playing golf for needed relaxation more in one year than in Bush’s eight. Continue reading “News Beneath the News”