by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We are witnessing a widespread crisis of faith in our progressive guardians of the last 30 years. Continue reading “A Tottering Technocracy”
Tag: Europe
A Dumb and Dumber War in Libya
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Almost daily over the last four months we were told that Muammar Gadhafi was about ready to throw in the towel and give up. Continue reading “A Dumb and Dumber War in Libya”
There Are No Socialists
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Are There Really Socialists?
Two unconnected developments were announced this past week. President Obama is releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, despite the absence of a global embargo or horrific natural disaster — and despite a litany of assertions from 2008 that drilling and increased supply might only have a marginal effect on prices. Continue reading “There Are No Socialists”
The Art of Appreciating America From Abroad
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Sense Out of Nonsense — A Ten-step Plan
I’ve been following the news the last two weeks — Weinergate, the dismal “unexpected” economic news, the new wars in Libya and Yemen — from Europe while leading about 60 on a military history tour of Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. Continue reading “The Art of Appreciating America From Abroad”
An American Versailles
The liberal message ia all style and impotence.
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Editor’s Note: What follows is a collection of recent Corners from VDH.
The Shape of 2012 to Come
The outburst from Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the so-called Shanghai Cooperation Organization should close the chapter on the much bandied about “outreach” to Iran voiced by candidate Obama in 2008. Continue reading “An American Versailles”
Thoughts on the Greek Madness
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Anyone who has lived in Greece can see why the question of default or a “haircut” is not a matter of if, but when. Continue reading “Thoughts on the Greek Madness”
Europe is Warning Us
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Rome — If Americans think fuel and food prices are high, they should try Europe, where both can be nearly double those in the United States, while salaries are often lower. Continue reading “Europe is Warning Us”
What We Might Remember This Memorial Day
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The world is a better place because Adolf Hitler did not preserve his conquest of the European continent, and because the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere of Hideki Tojo and his militarists imploded at Midway, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa. Continue reading “What We Might Remember This Memorial Day”
A Teachable Moment on American-European Faultlines
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The full story is not out on Dominique Strauss-Kahn and he is innocent of forcible sexual battery until proven guilty, but already the case has exposed an ancient abyss between European elite and American popular cultures — accentuated by the differences between New York’s rough-and-tumble media and legal worlds on the one hand and IMF technocracy and French privilege on the other. Continue reading “A Teachable Moment on American-European Faultlines”
President Obama’s Most Amazing Libyan Achievments
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
By bombing Libya, President Obama has accomplished some things once thought absolutely impossible in America: Continue reading “President Obama’s Most Amazing Libyan Achievments”