by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Deportation has become a near-taboo word. Yet the Boston bombings inevitably rekindle old questions about the way the U.S. admits, and at times deports, foreign nationals. Continue reading “Near-Suicidal Immigration Policies”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Barack Obama has a habit of trying to energize his legislative agenda by stoking the fires of emotionally charged current events — and in ways usually illogical and incoherent. Continue reading “Obama’s Psychodramas”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Al-Qaedism
A certain American (or for that matter Westernized) resident or citizen — usually male, almost always young, born a Muslim, prone to guilt over temporary secularization or Westernization, as often (or more so) from Pakistan, a Russian Islamic province, the Balkans, Iran, the Philippines, or Africa as from the Arab Middle East, usually failing in American society, always absorbed within American popular culture and guilty over such absorption — at some moment channels his own sense of failure into radical Islam. Continue reading “The Paradoxes of the Boston Bombings”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Much of what is written about the North Korean crisis seems to me little more than fantasy. Let us examine the mythologies. Continue reading “North Korean Mythologies”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Remember the medieval fable about the mice that wanted their dangerous enemy, the cat, belled, but each preferred not to be the one to attempt the dangerous deed? Continue reading “Who Will Bell America?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Trostky-ization
In ancient Rome, when the emperor or an especially distasteful elite died, his image on stone and in bronze was removed. And by decree there arose adamnatio memoriae, a holistic effort to erase away his entire prior existence. Continue reading “Strangers in a Stranger Land”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The European Union and the United Nations, as well as globalization and advanced technology, were supposed to trump age-old cultural, geographical, and national differences and bring people together. Continue reading “History Never Quite Ends”
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
National Review Online
The mystery remaining about the Obama administration’s foreign policy is not whether it has worked, but whether its failures will matter all that much. Continue reading “The Perils of Obama’s Foreign Policy”
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”