by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Our Age of Disbelief
We live in an age of disbelief, in which citizens increasingly do not believe what their government says or, for that matter, what is accepted as true by popular culture. Continue reading “Do We Believe Anymore?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Two parties, left and right, are central to good consensual government — one the perennial check on the other, both within the general boundaries of constitutional free-market capitalism. Continue reading “The Liberal Super Nova”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The newly elected French Socialist president, Francois Hollande, is warning Germany that Mediterranean ideas of “growth,” not Germanic “austerity,” should be the new European creed. Continue reading “Let Sleeping Germans Lie”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Dream and the Nightmare
The European Union was always a paradox. Its existence was predicated entirely on the notion of German guilt, translating into massive cash transfers east and south. Continue reading “Europe in the Rearview Mirror”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Are There Really Socialists?
Two unconnected developments were announced this past week. President Obama is releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, despite the absence of a global embargo or horrific natural disaster — and despite a litany of assertions from 2008 that drilling and increased supply might only have a marginal effect on prices. Continue reading “There Are No Socialists”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The bizarre story of socialist IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was almost storybook: Continue reading “DSK’s Technocratic Socialism”