Victor Davis Hanson
How Could They Do That in Arizona!
Making sense of the current debate over the Arizona immigration law.
Five Lies We Live With
So odd that we live in an age of untruth, in which millions privately shrug at the daily lies of our elites.
A Tour Through Recession America
A glimpse of the lower, middle, and upper classes of all races and ethnicities.
The End of Trust
The left is at war not just on those who have capital and loan it to others, but against the backbone of global finance: trust, itself.
The New Rules
VDH looks back — with some astonishment — at the way the rules of "proper" political discourse for the right-thinking have changed since November 2008.
The Last (and Least) of the Romans
Noted classicist VDH feels the new Spartacus series falls short — and suggests some alternatives.
Obama’s Remaking of America: As Predictable as the Sun Rising
If Obamism is carried to its logical conclusions, we will start to see Californization or Hellenization.
Obama Has Crossed the Rubicon
Expect the health care formula to be followed by similar strategies for blanket amnesty, cap and trade, and expansions of the government takeover of cars, banks, student loans, and energy.
Reflections on the Revolution in America
The present attempt to remake the country is the effort of the liberal well-to-do class, who are immune from the dictates they impose on others.
Is Tom Hanks Unhinged?
The actor's recent comments on World War II in the Pacific were ahistorical and ignorant.
Obama’s Great Gift — to Bush
Is Obama on some sort of mission to rehabilitate George Bush? His rhetoric and actions achieve the opposite effect of what was intended — sympathy for the prior president.
You, the Greedy — Not Us, the Anointed
VDH receives yet another request to protest, write a letter, give money — anything to save the state worker and his program — and forecasts the CA and USA of 2020.
California’s Schizophrenic Elites
California elites want nice cars, tasteful homes, good food, and appropriate vacations — but not the oil, gas, coal, nuclear energy, transmission lines, timber, cement, farmland, and water pumps that bring that to them.
America Has Race on the Brain
Most Americans assume racial affinities and go about their business; elite utopians demand there be none — and then prove themselves far more racialist.
Is There a Philosophy of Hypocrisy?
Charting a course through the left's countless U-turns since January of 2009.
Where Did Our Real Wealth Go?
America is creating no real new sources of concrete wealth, and our 11th hour is quickly approaching.
Two Decades of Classic Bidenisms
Joe Biden's zig-zagging odyssey on Iraq is a variable primer on how the political class reinvents itself depending on the current pulse of the battlefield, both overseas and in D.C.
Why Did Rome Fall? And Why Does It Matter Now?
Rome slowly declined from its culture of entitlement.
Civilization’s Lies
Yes, it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world, after all — proof positive that the enormous engine of capitalism, when married to the absolute freedom of Western democracy, results in some very funny things indeed.
Our Obama Saga, Part Two
The verdict is still out on whether this attempt to become more like Europe can be stopped. (Read Part One here.)
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