by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Nearly ten years ago, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld provoked outrage by referring to “Old Europe.” Continue reading “The New Old Europe”
Tag: Civilization
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?”
The California Corridor: Some Lessons on Government Largesse From the New Frontier
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Great Warpath
This summer it has been a softer, modern version of living in a cabin on the Great Warpath circa 1740 near Albany or Montreal (in this regard, take a look at Eliot Cohen’s new book Conquered into Liberty on the origins of the American way of war), readying oneself for the next break-in — so our inland “California Corridor” has become from Bakersfield to Sacramento. Continue reading “The California Corridor: Some Lessons on Government Largesse From the New Frontier”
Foreign Thoughts
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Editor’s Note: These passages are drawn from recent articles on The Corner.
Mexifornia, Quite Literally!
“I love this country, it has given me everything that I have, and I’m proud to be part of it,” said Victor Sanchez, a 37-year-old Monrovia resident wearing a Mexico jersey. “But yet, I didn’t have a choice to come here, I was born in Mexico, and that is where my heart will always be.” Continue reading “Foreign Thoughts”
The Metaphysics of Contemporary Theft
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Same Old, Same Old…
Last week was another somewhat depressing chapter in a now long saga of living where I was born. I returned to the farm from leading a European military history tour, and experienced the following — mind you, after a number of thefts the month prior (barn, shop, etc.): Continue reading “The Metaphysics of Contemporary Theft”
Kingdom of Lies
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
I am a subject in a kingdom of lies. At 57, I have grown up with decades of untruth — advanced for the purposes of purported social unity, the noble aim of egalitarianism, and the advancement of a cognitive elite in government, journalism, the arts, and the universities. Continue reading “Kingdom of Lies”
The Fragility of Complex Societies
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Thoughts on Japan
There is no more ordered, successful and humane urban society than found in Japan. Continue reading “The Fragility of Complex Societies”
The Rise of the Adolescent Mind
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
We live in a therapeutic age, one in which the old tragic view of our ancestors has been replaced by prolonged adolescence. Continue reading “The Rise of the Adolescent Mind”
Dumbing Democracy Down
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”