by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The liberal arts face a perfect storm. The economy is struggling with obscenely high unemployment and is mired in massive federal and state deficits. Budget-cutting won’t spare education. Continue reading “In Defense of the Liberal Arts”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
“What do we do now?” – Robert Redford as Bill McKay, in the 1972 film,The Candidate*
We still remember a messianic Barack Obama criss-crossing all 57 states promising “millions of new green jobs” and to “close Guantanamo.” Continue reading “Now What?”
by Bruce s. Thornton
RightNetworks.com
Those of us who are hard on Europeans for their cringing appeasement of Muslim aggression need to acknowledge and support the brave few who speak out against it. The late Oriana Fallaci challenged her fellow Europeans to recognize the threat that unassimilated Muslim immigrants and an illiberal Islamic doctrine posed to Western civilization. Continue reading “On Ewald Stadler: Another European Who Gets Islam”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Straws and the Camel’s Back
At some point in late 2010 once optimistic independent voters, moderate Republicans, and centrist Democrats stopped listening. Continue reading “Our “Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain” Moment”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California. Continue reading “Two Californias”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Julian Assange, the public face of WikiLeaks, is, among many things, cowardly. Courageousness would involve meeting with Iranian dissidents, Russian journalists, Pakistani Christians, or Chinese human-rights activists — and then releasing any confidential information that they might have about the torment institutionalized by their countries’ authoritarian regimes. Continue reading “Julian Assange’s EgoLeaks”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
For the last two years, $250,000 in annual income has been an arbitrary line in the sand of a renewed class war. Those above it must have their income taxes raised. Those below it are deemed more virtuous and so deserving of a tax cut. Continue reading “Why Not Soak the Rich”
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
In 2006, when Pope Benedict quoted history deemed unflattering to Islam, Christians around the Muslim world paid the price: anti-Christian riots ensued, churches were burned, and a nun was murdered in Somalia. Continue reading “Islamists Target Christians ‘Wherever They Can Reach Them’”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
I grew up in a Democratic household. Continue reading “Liberal Math”
by Bruce S. Thornton
RightNetwork.com
We moderns have managed to combine an incredible mastery of technical knowledge and information with an astonishing ignorance of the traditional wisdom once possessed by an illiterate village elder, and evident for all to see on every page of history. Continue reading “Modern Stupidity”