by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
‘Affirmative action” was the logical sequel to the civil-rights legislation of the 1960s. The initial reasoning was attractive enough. Continue reading “Diversity, Inc.”
Tag: California
A Vandalized Valley
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
I am starting to feel as if I am living in a Vandal state, perhaps on the frontier near Carthage around AD 530, or in a beleaguered Rome in 455. Here are some updates from the rural area surrounding my farm, taken from about a 30-mile radius. In this take, I am not so much interested in chronicling the flotsam and jetsam as in fathoming whether there is some ideology that drives it. Continue reading “A Vandalized Valley”
Illegal Immigration Is Immoral
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Illegal immigration has been in the news daily during the Republican primary campaign, even though a depressed economy here, stronger border enforcement, and vast new finds of petroleum in Latin America may soon radically curtail the number of illegal entrants into the United States. Continue reading “Illegal Immigration Is Immoral”
The Fannie and Freddie University
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
It’s More than Just PC
The traditionalist critique of the university — I made it myself over thirteen years ago in the co-authored Who Killed Homer? — was that somewhere around the time of the Vietnam War, higher education changed radically for the worse. Continue reading “The Fannie and Freddie University”
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”
Despicable Israel Libels on Display in California Universities
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The moral and intellectual corruption of American universities has recently manifested itself in the California State University system, the largest in the country. Continue reading “Despicable Israel Libels on Display in California Universities”
Occupy What?
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Playing With Fire
Occupy Wall Street follows three years of sloppy presidential name-calling — “millionaires and billionaires,” slurs about Las Vegas and the Super Bowl, profit-mad, limb-lopping doctors, introspection that now is not the time for profits [1] and at some point we should cease making money, spread the wealth, punish our enemies, and all the old Obama boilerplate. Someone finally got the message about the evil 1%. Continue reading “Occupy What?”
The Moral Dimensions of Illegal Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The New Old Debate Over Illegal Immigration
The debate over illegal immigration is mostly fossilized. We know the predictable contours. Continue reading “The Moral Dimensions of Illegal Immigration”
Strangers in a Familiar Land
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
High-Speed Rail?
California sits in a time warp. Despite tax hikes that make our roughly 10% income tax and 10% sales tax among the highest in the nation, there is little to show for it during the last forty years. Continue reading “Strangers in a Familiar Land”
Why Does the Good Life End?
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
A Look Back
People just don’t disappear. Look at Germany in 1946 or Athenians in 339 B.C. Continue reading “Why Does the Good Life End?”