by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
There is a revolution going on in America. But it is not part of the Tea Party or the loud Occupy Wall Street protests. Continue reading “Oil-Rich America?”
Tag: Barack Obama
The President Who Never Was
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
A Teen-age President in Search of an Adult Identity
Barack Obama keeps looking for a presidential identity not his own [1]. In 2008, he wished to be JFK—whom he often referenced as a youthful and charismatic figure supposedly similar to himself. Continue reading “The President Who Never Was”
A Tale of Two Surges
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
From 2007 to 2009, a surge of 20,000 troops under the generalship of David Petraeus saved a mostly lost war in Iraq. Continue reading “A Tale of Two Surges”
Obama 101
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In the last three years, the president has taught us a great deal about America, the world, and himself. Continue reading “Obama 101”
Moral Equivalence Is Moral Evasion
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The failure of the Congressional budget “super-committee” to address our geometrically expanding debt and deficits should surprise no one. Continue reading “Moral Equivalence Is Moral Evasion”
Obama’s Economic Quackery
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Sometimes the wrong medicine can make a struggling patient far sicker than he would have been had he been allowed to recover naturally. Western medicine began with the premise that the physician either must know how to cure the patient or simply leave him alone — but above all not make him worse through harmful treatment. Continue reading “Obama’s Economic Quackery”
The Arab Winter Approaches
by Bruce S. Thornton
Defining Ideas
The revolutions against Arab autocracies — dubbed the “Arab Spring” — have been greeted in America with bipartisan celebration. Continue reading “The Arab Winter Approaches”
Why Does America Defend the Weak and Small?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Recently, an open mike caught French president Nicolas Sarkozy and American president Barack Obama jointly trashing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Sarkozy scoffed, “I cannot stand him. He’s a liar.” Continue reading “Why Does America Defend the Weak and Small?”
Obama’s Imaginarium
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The presidency of Barack Obama is full of funny things that need not follow any sort of logic. Continue reading “Obama’s Imaginarium”
The American Way of War
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
William Shawcross, the British journalist, historian, and human rights advocate — once a fierce critic of the Nixon-Kissinger years, now a defender of the West’s struggle against radical Islam — has written the best book yet on the dilemmas Western governments face in dealing with Islamic terrorists.1 Continue reading “The American Way of War”