by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
I was fascinated watching the recent Obama campaign stops, particularly the contrast with 2008. Gone are the faux columns and classical backdrops. Continue reading “Anatomy of Petulance”
Deficits and Depression
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
We will learn in November just how angry the public is about a lot of things, from higher taxes to massive unemployment. Continue reading “Deficits and Depression”
Politics Upside Down
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Something Is Different
Suddenly the same-old, same-old does not work this year. Continue reading “Politics Upside Down”
How to Turn a Recession into a Depression
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
It is hard for a president to turn a recession into a long-term downturn in the United States, given the inherent resiliency of private enterprise and America’s open and free markets. But if you were to try, you might do something like the following. Continue reading “How to Turn a Recession into a Depression”
Blogosphere Assails the ‘Stanford Daily’
Private Papers
Editor’s Note: We took these remarks directly from the Daily. They do not reflect the opinion of Private Papers, but are admittedly very supportive of VDH. Continue reading “Blogosphere Assails the ‘Stanford Daily’”
Slurs Replace Reasoned Debate
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
A McCarthyite Attack from the Stanford Daily
Recently, the Stanford Daily [1] accused me of being a racist for comments on the university in general that appeared here on Works and Days, and were later excerpted in the Wall Street Journal [2]. Here is the passage I wrote now in question: Continue reading “Slurs Replace Reasoned Debate”
Zombie Ideology
Ideas, old and dead, are still walking around.
by Bruce S. Thornton
RightNetwork.com
Explaining the continued death-grip of progressive ideology on significant numbers of people despite its manifest intellectual exhaustion, incoherence, and senility compels one to rely on analogies. Continue reading “Zombie Ideology”
The Obama Rope-a-dope
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
After 2010, will he be Carter or Clinton?
That is the ongoing parlor game now played among pundits over how President Obama will react to a probable shellacking of the Democrats in midterm elections next month. Continue reading “The Obama Rope-a-dope”
From the Unbelievable to the Passé
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
From time to time I stop and wonder how the unbelievable can become the accepted. Let me list four arbitrary, but still representative, examples of what I mean. Continue reading “From the Unbelievable to the Passé”
The Gift of Obama’s Foreign Policy
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The Obama reset foreign policy has, in an unintended way, brought clarity to America’s traditional role in the world. After 2004, “blame Bush” proved an easy way for Europeans and American liberals to delude themselves into thinking the world’s problems neither predated nor transcended George W. Bush: Continue reading “The Gift of Obama’s Foreign Policy”