by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
Many in the west are interpreting the demonstrations in Egypt against Hosni Mubarak as populist expressions of “aspirations for a democratic future,” as a spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron put it. Continue reading “Dumbing Democracy Down”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Obama’s deer-in-the-headlights, finger-to-the-wind, “I can’t believe this is happening to me” initial reaction to the Mubarak implosion has eerie precedents. Continue reading “Obama’s 1979”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Days of Rage
In times to come, the period between the failed campaign of John Kerry and the Democratic control of the Congress, coupled with the beginning of the successful surge, should be known as “The Insane Years.” Continue reading “Goodbye to All That: 2004-2007”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The United States’ public position on Egypt is “flexible.” That in and of itself is not surprising, given the ambiguities surrounding the Cairo uprising. Continue reading “Cario Ironies: Same Cast of American Characters, Different Play”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Trimalchio’s Bowl
Sometime during the reign of the emperor Nero, the novelist and imperial confidant Petronius wrote a novel about life among the Roman nouveau richein the Bay of Naples. Continue reading “Signs of the Times”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
My Three-week Victory, Your Seven-year Mess
It is difficult trying to figure out what the left’s position is on democracy and the Middle East. Here’s a brief effort. Continue reading “Clueless on Cario”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Obama’s Multiculturalism vs. Bush’s Freedom
Let us be honest. Most of George Bush’s admirable support — as voiced in his 2005 inaugural address — for freedom abroad was de facto abandoned by 2006-7. Condoleeza Rice had championed Egyptian dissidents, but within a year that advocacy was dropped and we were back to the Mubarak paradigm as usual. Continue reading “The Middle East and the Multicultural Nightmare”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Everywhere But Iraq?
No one quite knows all the causes of the unrest in Tunisia, now spreading to Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East, or how this will all end, and whether this seemingly middle-class revolt dovetails to the 2009 demonstrations in Iran and the Cedar Revolution earlier in Lebanon. Continue reading “Thoughts on Chaos, Revolution, and Radicalism”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Barack Obama 1.0 had a solid record of hard-left governance as an Illinois state representative and US senator. He voted for partial-birth abortion, wanted all troops out of Iraq by March 2008, and proved himself the most partisan of the 100 members of the Senate, even to the left of the only Socialist senator, Bernie Sanders. Continue reading “Proteus-in-Chief”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Anatomy of an Obama Moment
In a news-obsessed culture, sometimes the media simply ignores profound stories, such as the cause of the almost inexplicable — and quite brilliantly constructed — recovery of Obama’s poll ratings. Continue reading “Obama’s Mandela Moment”