by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
We’ve had some unusual Cabinet secretaries in past administrations — Earl Butz, John Mitchell and James Watt come to mind — but never anything quite like the present bunch. Continue reading “Cabinets Gone Wild”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
For anyone familiar with the American university and its gospel of multicultural diversity, the revelation that Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren exploited her 1/32 Cherokee ancestry to pass as a minority is a dog-bites-man story. Continue reading “Elizabeth Warren and the Frauds of Diversity”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The temple of postmodern liberalism was rocked these last few weeks, as a number of supporting columns and buttresses simply crashed, leaving the entire edifice wobbling. Continue reading “All Fall Down”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Almost daily we read of America’s “waning power” and “inevitable decline,” as observers argue over the consequences of defense cuts and budget crises. Continue reading “Decline or Decadence?”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The foreign minister of Spain recently compared the troubled EU to the Titanic, a metaphor not quite so trite given the new research into why the world’s biggest ocean liner collided with an iceberg. Continue reading “The EU Speeds for the Iceberg”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We recently saw lots of sit-down strikes and demonstrations — the various efforts in Wisconsin, the Occupy movements, and student efforts to oppose tuition hikes. None of them mattered much or changed anything. Continue reading “Sitting Out Obama”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Someone named Elspeth Reeve, in an Atlantic posting, is suggesting that the Derbyshire essay was no different from other commentary on National Reviewon the Trayvon Martin case, citing my observations, along with those of others at NR, as proof: Continue reading “Race–on the Brain”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
A review of Robert Spencer’s Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2012). Continue reading “Robert Spencer Asks: Did Muhammad Exist?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
Not long ago, The Economist ran an unsigned editorial called the “Auschwitz Complex.” The unnamed author blamed serial Middle East tensions on both Israel’s unwarranted sense of victimhood, accrued from the Holocaust, and its unwillingness to “to give up its empire.” Continue reading “The New Anti-Semitism”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Administration meltdowns are hardly novel. In almost every presidency there comes a moment when sheer chaos, whether self-induced or the result of an outside crisis, takes hold. Continue reading “When Administrations Implode”