by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In Greek mythology, the prophetess Cassandra was doomed both to tell the truth and to be ignored. Our modern version is a bankrupt Greece that we seem to discount. Continue reading “Civilization in Reverse”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The Race Going into South Carolina
The primary race that has just started and should still be wide open is already supposedly almost over — but still isn’t quite. Continue reading “South Carolina Debate: A Perfect Distraction”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The 2012 campaign is heating up and we can see the outlines of an impending us/them class war. But in our strange 21st-century world, lots of crazy things blur the president’s 1%/99% divide. Continue reading “Mr. Obama’s 99%: Are We Poor or Just Unequal or Both or Neither?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Reset/Outreach R.I.P
It is not surprising how little foreign policy comes up in the debates, given the sorry state of the economy. Continue reading “Diplomacy Carterizes”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Watching the current EU dramatics over southern Mediterranean debt reminds me of the farm crisis of 1982–4 when lots of big farming concerns around here defaulted on what they owed banks. Continue reading “The Coin Toss on EU Crisis For Germany: Heads We Lose, Tails You Win”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
It proved as hard to break up the bankrupt European Union as it was to create it. Continue reading “2011: Out with a Whimper, Not a Bang”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The German Stereotype
There were lots of stories that left a lot unsaid. The Germany/EU debt imbroglio was one of them. Continue reading “The No News Stories of 2011”
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”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The usual liberal complaint against the conservative opposition to higher income taxes is greed and the better-offs’ self-serving reluctance to pay their “fair share.” Continue reading “Why Not Pay Higher Taxes?”
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”