by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
It is rare, even in the case of Paul Krugman, to read a column in which almost everything that is stated is either wrong or deliberately misleading. But his recent take on California’s renaissance is pure fantasy. Continue reading “Krugman’s California Dreaming”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
We live in a mythic age — but mythic in the sense of made-up.
The Coastal Aristocrat
In the last thirty years, I have probably spoken 200 times at a coastal university of some sort, most of which were on the Eastern seaboard. Continue reading “America in the Age of Myth”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage
Like the hero of Gunter Grass’ novel The Tin Drum, America’s progressive Baby Boomers chose not to grow up. Why should they? Continue reading “The Tin-Drum Progressive Boomers”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Bring up Iraq — and expect to end up in an argument. Conservatives are no different from liberals in rehashing the unpopular war, which has become a sort of whipping boy for all our subsequent problems. Continue reading “Iraq a Convenient Scapegoat”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
I. The Case for Invasion
Wise
The Bush administration built a broad domestic coalition and an adequate foreign alliance (more inclusive than the UN-sanctioned effort against North Korea in 1950). Continue reading “Iraq–Agony, Ordeal, and Recovery”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
For all the Obama-era talk of decline, there is at least one reason why America probably won’t, at least not quite yet. Continue reading “America’s Big Fat Advantage”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
On the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the back-and-forth recriminations continue, but in all the “not me” defenses, we have forgotten, over the ensuing decade, the climate of 2003 and why we invaded in the first place. The war was predicated on six suppositions. Continue reading “Why Did We Invade Iraq?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Here is a brief travel log of five days amid 21st-century California. Continue reading “Five Days of Hope and Despair”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage
The GOP’s continuing analysis of last November’s debacle has now sparked a debate about foreign policy. Continue reading “Where Does Republican Foreign Policy Go From Here?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Sometime in the new millennium, “global warming” evolved into “climate change.” Continue reading “From Affirmative Action to Diversity”