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.
So What Happened to Iraq?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Six years ago, the conventional wisdom was that Ayad Allawi, then prime minister of the appointed Iraqi Interim Government, was a puppet of the United States. Continue reading “So What Happened to Iraq?”
Mr. Obama’s Nowhere Discussions
Obama needs to stop talking and start making hard policy decisions
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Barack Obama has a marvelous way of sounding innovative, fresh, and novel while offering stale, predictable bromides. His policies at home are an extension of LBJ’s old Great Society. Continue reading “Mr. Obama’s Nowhere Discussions”
Why All the Wounded Fawns?
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Why are charges of racism and political extremism suddenly in the air? Continue reading “Why All the Wounded Fawns?”
Thoughts on Allies Gone By
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Whatever the protestations of the Obama administration, many in both Britain and Israel feel that 2009-10 marked a watershed, the beginning of an era in which America was no longer a special friend to either — whether gauged by serial symbolic snubs or real policy differences on things like Jerusalem and the Falklands. Continue reading “Thoughts on Allies Gone By”
Obama’s Khrushchev? How Sick is That?
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Roger Cohen wrote in the New York Times of Obama’s putdown of Netanyahu: “The former Soviet leader [Khrushchev] thought he could browbeat Kennedy only to discover, in Vienna, that the Kennedy charm was not unalloyed to steel (‘It will be a long, cold winter’). Netanyahu was the first foreign leader to think he could steamroll Obama. He earned a frosty comeuppance.” Continue reading “Obama’s Khrushchev? How Sick is That?”
The War on Terror–Bush Without the Stetson
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
There is much to criticize about President Obama on foreign policy, but increasingly, despite all the “reset button” rhetoric and the obligatory nods to the Left, his anti-terrorism policies are becoming near identical extensions (if in cynical fashion) of George Bush’s. Continue reading “The War on Terror–Bush Without the Stetson”
A Tour Through Recession America
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The last seven days I tried to jot down what I saw in some slices of America in recession — and much of its seems at odds with our general government narrative. Continue reading “A Tour Through Recession America”
Damn the Evidence, Full Speed Ahead?
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The strangest thing about Obama’s gargantuan, trillion-dollar-plus new healthcare entitlement is the timing. Continue reading “Damn the Evidence, Full Speed Ahead?”
The Ongoing Melodrama of Victims and Oppressors
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
President Obama, in the tradition of progressive Democratic leaders, believes government should ask the more economically fortunate citizens to be responsible for helping the less well off. Continue reading “The Ongoing Melodrama of Victims and Oppressors”