by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media
On the occasion of the outreach from Iran, and the embarrassment in Syria, it is wise to remember why and how our leaders became so inept at dealing with Islamists. Continue reading “Overseas Contingency Operations and Such”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
All can agree that the Obama administration is mired in myriads of scandals, but as yet no one can quite figure out what they all mean and where they will lead. Continue reading “Pick Your Scandal”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Multiculturalism — as opposed to the notion of a multiracial society united by a single culture — has become an abject contradiction in the modern Western world. Continue reading “Western Cultural Suicide”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Government is now so huge, powerful, and callous that citizens risk becoming virtual serfs, lacking the freedoms guaranteed by the Founders. Continue reading “Big Government’s Abuses of Power”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Shortly before the second-term inauguration of Barack Obama this January, I wrote [1] the following of my worries over the Obama way of doing business: Continue reading “It Can Happen Here”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
One common theme emerges from the hearings over the Benghazi disaster: The Obama administration is intent on downplaying the Islamic roots of terrorists who harbor an existential hatred of the West. Continue reading “Terrorism as Therapy”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
We all know the usual reasons why we are prodded to read the classics — moving characters, seminal ideas, blueprints of our culture, and paradigms of sterling prose and poetry. Then we nod and snooze. Continue reading “Why Read Old Books?”
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
NRO’s The Corner
If only the president might show the same audacity to weigh in on the murderous Tsarnaev brothers as he did when he expressed his displeasure during the ongoing Henry Louis Gates or Trayvon Martin matters Continue reading “Presidential Rhetoric”
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”