by Bruce S. Thornton
Defining Ideas
The current Supreme Court term has been dominated by the Constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare legislation better known as Obamacare. Continue reading “America’s Problem of Assimilation”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In so-called March in March protests, thousands of students in California universities recently demonstrated in outrage over spiraling tuition costs. Continue reading “California Tuition Blues”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
President Barack Obama recently assured El Salvador that the United States would not deport the more than 200,000 Salvadorans residing illegally in the United States. Continue reading “Please, A Little Honesty about Illegal Immigration”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
There has been for months a popular parlor game of tallying instances in which President Obama seems to have either ignored or simply bypassed federal law. Continue reading “Obama’s Postmodern Vision”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
‘Affirmative action” was the logical sequel to the civil-rights legislation of the 1960s. The initial reasoning was attractive enough. Continue reading “Diversity, Inc.”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Illegal immigration has been in the news daily during the Republican primary campaign, even though a depressed economy here, stronger border enforcement, and vast new finds of petroleum in Latin America may soon radically curtail the number of illegal entrants into the United States. Continue reading “Illegal Immigration Is Immoral”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The New Old Debate Over Illegal Immigration
The debate over illegal immigration is mostly fossilized. We know the predictable contours. Continue reading “The Moral Dimensions of Illegal Immigration”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Recently, in symbolic fashion, spectators of Mexican ancestry in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl did not merely cheer on the Mexican national soccer team in a game against the US national team — such nostalgia would be natural and understandable for recent immigrants — but went much further and also jeered American players and, indeed, references to the United States. Continue reading “Illiberal Immigration”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
This Fourth of July, what remains is the Founders’ vision of a limited government; the idea of a population united by common values, themes, and ideas; a republican form of checks-and-balances government to prevent demagoguery, factions, and tyranny of the majority; the sanctity and autonomy of the nation-state; and individual freedom and liberty as protected through the Bill of Rights. Everything after and against that has proved a failure. Continue reading “Liberal Frankensteins”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Dinosaur Thinking
Even to talk of illegal immigration earns slurs. Continue reading “The Philosophies of Illegal Immigration”