by Victor Davis Hanson // Tribune Media Services
We may be in the era of Facebook and fracking. But 2013 is still beginning to look a lot like the cataclysmic century we just left behind.
More people probably died from the wars of the 20th century than from the battles of the prior 2,500 years combined. The bloodiest century saw the rise of fascism, Nazism, communism and jihadism. Continue reading “Back to our 20th-century future”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Campaign Rhetoric
The campaign contour is pretty clear: The Obama reelection team will not make the case for the advantages and popularity of Obamacare, for the Chuian advantages of $4-a-gallon gas, for the dynamism of a 1.7 percent GDP growth rate, for the stimulatory effects of adding $5 trillion in new debt, or for why 8 percent unemployment does not qualify under the old rubric of a “jobless recovery.” Continue reading “The Face of Things to Come”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Media
Now that Mitt Romney will be Obama’s opponent in November, the Democrats are rolling out the false narrative they will use to demonize Romney and obscure four years of failed economic policies that have created the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression. Continue reading “Class Warfare the Last Refuge of a Failed Presidency”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
This should prove to be an ideological election about the economy. Not all campaigns are so clear-cut. Sometimes moderate Republicans raise taxes (as George H. W. Bush did); at other times, pragmatic Democrats cut spending (as Bill Clinton did). Continue reading “Freedom or Fairness in 2012?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In a scathing denunciation of Mitt Romney last week, Fareed Zakaria praised Barack Obama for his nuanced understanding of what Zakaria has called the “Post-American World”: Continue reading “A Post-American World?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Why did Japan attack us 70 years ago today, other than the usually cited existential reasons and the fact that they thought they could and get away with it? Continue reading “Pearl Harbor Considered”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Candor
Aside from courage — the essential trait without which, as the ancients insisted, all other virtues are impossible — candor is now the most appreciated. Continue reading “Ancient Virtues and Modern Sins”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We are in a fresh round of declinism — understandably, after borrowing nearly $5 trillion in less than three years and having very little to show for it. Continue reading “What America Does Best”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Since 2009, the example of the economic boom following World War II has been used by Keynesians to justify their record “peacetime” levels of borrowing intended to lift the US out of the doldrums. Continue reading “The False WWII Analogy”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Consider the myriad paradoxes of the Obama age. Unprecedented government borrowing is out of control, unsustainable, and finally causing financial markets to panic. Continue reading “Obama’s Paradoxes”