by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
What’s behind the Tea Party protests, low approval ratings for Congress, distrust of the media and unease with experts in the Obama administration? Continue reading “The Trouble with Elitist Theories”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
What’s behind the Tea Party protests, low approval ratings for Congress, distrust of the media and unease with experts in the Obama administration? Continue reading “The Trouble with Elitist Theories”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Count the Ways
A German scholar twenty years ago listed, I recall, some 210 reasons for the collapse of the Western Empire. Continue reading “Why Did Rome Fall–And Why Does It Matter Now?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
1. Savvy Americans always see through the fraud in the end and do the right thing are infantile and don’t know what’s good for them. Continue reading “The New Commandments on the Animal Farm Barn Wall”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Who is Afraid of Big Government?
There is no reason to review all the standard reasons why the American people are terrified of an all-powerful federal or state government. Continue reading “Why Fear Big Government?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Partisanship, Then and Now
One of the stranger behaviors of the ever-stranger Obama administration is its sudden adoption of the “wounded fawn” posture. Continue reading “Our Top Anti-Terrorism Advisor Must Go”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Thousands in Tokyo have been echoing Barack Obama’s signature call for “change” — but as in “Change! Japanese-U.S. relations.” Continue reading “America Rides off Into the Sunset”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
What is Barack Obama’s real problem? Too many people here and abroad took him at his word, and he now seems quite angry at that. Continue reading “Mr. President, Words Matter”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
One of the sad characteristics of contemporary Western society is the tendency to embrace noble lies. These are assertions and acts that don’t square with reality, with what we see and hear — and are voiced for apparently noble social purposes. Here are a few politically-incorrect examples. Continue reading “Civilization’s Lies”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Cap-and-trade, statist healthcare, and an end to “don’t ask, don’t tell” for thee. Continue reading “The Usual Straw Men”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Katie Couric and the New Populism
With all the talk of corporate greed and inequality, did people like Katie Couric think that in tough times they were immune from the laws of populist outrage? Continue reading “It’s Not about Poverty”