by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Barack Obama has a habit of trying to energize his legislative agenda by stoking the fires of emotionally charged current events — and in ways usually illogical and incoherent. Continue reading “Obama’s Psychodramas”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
George W. Bush’s September 14, 2001, so-called “bullhorn” speech, that he gave with his arm around fireman Bob Beckwith at Ground Zero (“I can hear you! Continue reading “Bush’s Warranted Rehabilitation Will Come”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Deportation has become a near-taboo word. Yet the Boston bombings inevitably rekindle old questions about the way the U.S. admits, and at times deports, foreign nationals. Continue reading “Near-Suicidal Immigration Policies”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
If only the president might show the same audacity to weigh in on the murderous Tsarnaev brothers as he did when he expressed his displeasure during the ongoing Henry Louis Gates or Trayvon Martin matters Continue reading “Presidential Rhetoric”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
It is a bad idea to demonize your opponents with epithets such “shameful” and “lying,” given that the case was not made that proposed gun-control legislation would have prevented a Sandy Hook. Continue reading “The Dangers of Politically Inspired Moral Outrage–From Sandy Hook to What Next?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
“Counter-revolutionary” is an apt term for these days: President Obama has promised to make a fundamental transformation, a veritable revolution in American society and culture. Continue reading “Confessions of a Counter-Revolutionary”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
We can imagine what lies ahead in 2017 — no matter the result of either the 2014 midterm elections or the 2016 presidential outcome. Continue reading “After Obama”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
We live in a mythic age — but mythic in the sense of made-up.
The Coastal Aristocrat
In the last thirty years, I have probably spoken 200 times at a coastal university of some sort, most of which were on the Eastern seaboard. Continue reading “America in the Age of Myth”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
I. The Case for Invasion
Wise
The Bush administration built a broad domestic coalition and an adequate foreign alliance (more inclusive than the UN-sanctioned effort against North Korea in 1950). Continue reading “Iraq–Agony, Ordeal, and Recovery”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
For all the Obama-era talk of decline, there is at least one reason why America probably won’t, at least not quite yet. Continue reading “America’s Big Fat Advantage”