by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In the past 40 years, the United States has intervened to go after autocrats in Afghanistan, Grenada, Haiti, Iraq, Libya, Panama, Somalia, and Serbia. We have attacked by air, by land, and by a combination of both. Continue reading “Taking Out Dictators”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Ten Commandments for Our New Century
If you think our quiet lives of desperation can sometimes become a bit much, relax. Here are some guidelines to soothe your frustration — a few commandments that make sense out of today’s nonsense. Continue reading “The New Commandments on the Barn Wall”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Until the appearance of Barack Obama on the national scene, I knew of “them” only from an old sci-fi movie in which huge ants (“Them!”) ate people. Continue reading “Are You ‘Them!’?”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
In 1868, a British army led by Sir Robert Napier sailed from India to Abyssinia (Ethiopia) to rescue several English and European hostages from the mentally unstable, sadistic King Theodore. Continue reading “Obama’s Assault on America’s Prestige”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
One question that rarely arises about Greece is “where did all those hundreds of billions of Euros really go?” I think most visitors could easily answer that they were not all squandered on pensions and inflated government staffs and salaries. Continue reading “Which Way Greece?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Latest Scandals
Taxes: What does it matter that Gingrich released one year of his tax records? Any candidate can prep them a year in advance. Continue reading “The 2012 Election Circus–the Acts, the Players, the Hype”
by Bruce S. Thornton
City Journal
Review of Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy, by Ibn Warraq, (Encounter, 2011, 286 pp.) Continue reading “Culture Matters”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
NO MAS, MR. PRESIDENT
The State of the Union could have been written [1] by a computer program. All the now familiar Obama furniture was in the room: the mock outrage at “them,” the psychodramatic first-person boasting (as in, “I will oppose..,” “I will not work with…,” “I will decline…,” “I will not stand by …,” I will not cede…,” “I will not walk away…,” “I will not back down…,” “I will not go back…”); the now customary rear-view-mirror jab at his fading predecessor; the monotonous promising that something is so bad that we must have a new program for it (each year the same threat, the same solution, the same failure); and the silence about the Obama legacy of stimulus, debt, and ObamaCare. Continue reading “What We Do Not Want to Hear Anymore”
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
PJ Media
Is Reading Good Books Over?
There is great “truth and beauty” in Homer’s Iliad [1], but I would not try to make his sale on such platitudes. Continue reading “So Why Read Anymore?”