by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Two Racial Narratives — and the Current Hysteria
Polls show that the Trayvon Martin case has split the country apart over perceptions of race and justice, in ways that may dwarf the polarities of the O.J. Simpson trial days of 1994. Continue reading “The Trayvon Martin Case and the Growing Racial Divide”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
Wittgenstein once wrote, “What we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.” Ex-National Review writer John Derbyshire has just learned the modern American version of this truth. Continue reading “Derbyshire Learns What We Cannot Talk About”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Our Modern Lynch Mob
Democracies are in general prone to fits of the mob. Just read the Thucydidean account of the debate of Mytilene. Continue reading “Beware of the Mob”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The November presidential election was the favorite topic at the Freedom Center’s West Coast Retreat last weekend. Amidst the prognostications and arguments about which Republican would or should get the nomination Continue reading “Obama a Creature of the Corrupt University”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Rules of Outrage — Or Why the Trayvon Martin Tragedy Divides the Country
Every year hundreds of Americans are shot and killed under controversial circumstances, where the evidence is incomplete and subject to dispute, often making impossible an immediate charge of murder or manslaughter, at least until further witnesses or information come forth. Continue reading “From the Trayvon Martin Tragedy to a National Travesty”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The atrocity at first seemed undeniable: A white vigilante, with a Germanic name no less, hunted down and then executed a tiny black youth — who, from his published grammar-school photos, seemed about twelve — while he was walking innocently and eating candy in an exclusive gated community in northern Florida. Continue reading “Obama’s Demagoguery”
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 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
National Review Online
Never has America been more assimilated, integrated, and intermarried — as is evident in everything from politics to popular culture, from statistics to anecdotes. Continue reading “Obama’s Racial Politics”