American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column at National Review Online explores the potential impact for the Democratic Party of President Obama’s divisive approach to government. Other than hoping for a serious…
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column at National Review Online turns the clock back six years. America is suddenly angry at the laxity, incompetence, and polarizing politics of the Obama administration,…
John Steele Gordon explains for Commentary magazine’s online readers how our current president’s political predicaments might have been avoided had he followed the example of Calvin Coolidge. As Roger L.…
The righty blogosphere has been pointing out for some time that President Obama hasn’t held a press conference since he stupidly said the police acted stupidly in the arrest of…
Bob Dylan (yes THE Bob Dylan) was picked up by a cop in New Jersey yesterday because people in the neighborhood in which he was walking thought he looked suspicious.…
This is the conclusion of Shelby Steele’s excellent WSJ article on the Gates/Crowley/Obama affair. To get the full impact, please read the entire article here. But then Skip Gates…
By now even Obama seems to know he should’ve been more presidential about the whole thing and shouldn’t have prejudged the white cop by the color of his skin and…
Here we have an illuminating comparison between the Henry Louis Gates dust-up and the bid to impose state-run health care on the nation. In short, there is a knowledge gap…
Henry Louis Gates must have learned a lot about playing the race card and accusing “whitey” of all manner of things only imagined while he was living in Durham. That’s…
In for an inch, in for a mile, the old saw goes. Politicians with no business experience deciding to run 15 percent of the economy is the mile. The inch,…