by Victor Davis Hanson
Wall Street Journal Online
Draping the Acropolis with a hammer-and-sickle banner might seem a stupid public relations stunt — especially as a bankrupt Greece seeks to reassure foreign capitalist investors to save Hellenic socialism. Continue reading “Greek Tragedies”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Usually a handful of ex-soldiers seek political office every election cycle. But well over 20 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are running this fall for Congress alone. Continue reading “Soldier-Citizens to the Rescue?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Barack Obama once warned, “Don’t tell me words don’t matter!” He was right. They do. Continue reading “Obama’s Good and Bad Words”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
From the Sanctimonious to the Ridiculous
I think sometime this year elite radical environmentalism died. And at about the same time perished also the notion of the man in the mansion as the man on the barricades. Let me explain. Continue reading “Thoughts on Gorism”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The jihadist symptoms of Major Hasan were ignored; General Casey lamented the possible ramifications of Hasan’s killings to the army’s diversity program; the warnings of Mr. Mutallab’s father about his son’s jihadist tendencies were ignored but the latter’s Miranda rights were not; Continue reading “Is There a Pattern Here or What?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In politics, having power and keeping it often mean fudging a little on ideology. Continue reading “Of Laureates and Cowboys”
by Victor Davis Hanson
City Journal (April 2010)
President Obama has announced a new American policy concerning the use of nuclear weapons (the “Nuclear Posture Review”). Continue reading “A Nobel, Bad Idea”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Yesterday I think I understood why California is in deep trouble. Let me walk you through another day out here. Continue reading “The Remains of a California Day”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Yesterday I think I understood why California is in deep trouble. Let me walk you through another day out here. Continue reading “The Remains of a California Day”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The Obama administration has celebrated its recent efforts to sign a nuclear-weapons accord with Russia and the hosting of a nuclear non-proliferation summit in Washington — all silhouetted against grandiose promises to seek the end of all nuclear weapons on the planet. Continue reading “Obama’s Nuclear Naivety”