by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Vienna — Walk the beautiful streets in Munich, Strasbourg, and Vienna, and you can see why Europeans thought in the last decades that they had reached the end of history. Continue reading “History Returns to Europe”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The first duty of national leaders is to worry about the self-interest of their own countries; utopian internationalism can come later. Continue reading “Our Chief Confessor”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The virulent worldwide reaction to Israeli’s handling of the Gaza flotilla has been quite instructive. Continue reading “The Turkish Government: Global Arbiter of Ethnic Violence?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In the last year, many of the dreams of an emerging international elite have imploded — and this, in a new century that was to usher in a regime of global liberal ecumenism. Continue reading “The Technocrats’ New Clothes”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Reflections on Germany
Munich — I’ve been walking the last two days through Munich. Much of the city core was bombed out by the allies by spring 1945. Yet today there is little evidence of such destruction. Continue reading “The New Old German Problem”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The Truly Amazing Fact
One wonders not that President Obama tells untruths (e.g. no middle-class tax increase, health-care “reform” will control costs, C-Span’s airing of healthcare debates, listing pending legislation on the internet for five days, closing down Guantanamo within a year, advocacy for all combat forces out of Iraq by March 2008, no lobbyists in government, an end to earmarks, and all the old ones about public campaign financing, the actual relationships with Wright, Ayers, Khalidi, Blago, etc.), since all politicians fib. Continue reading “New Trickle Down Theory”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Profiling is considered among the worst of American sins. Continue reading “A Nation of Profilers”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
What are we to make of the five students who were temporarily suspended by the administration at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill for purportedly seeking to provoke — by the wearing of various American flag insignia, no less — Mexican-American students who were at the time celebrating, with some Mexican flags, Cinco de Mayo Day? Continue reading “Shall We Laugh or Cry at Morgan Hill?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Five years ago, the European Union’s account of itself resonated with end-of history triumphalism. Continue reading “The Other European Volcano”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Bad Time
Now would be a particularly bad time for the president to push for amnesty under the rubric of comprehensive immigration reform — an approach that failed Bush, despite economic good times and supposedly a supportive base. Continue reading “A New Nowhere Debate?”