The End of an Idea — Why Affirmative Action Should Stop May 16, 2011 – 1:01 pm – by Victor Davis Hanson 2011, not 1970? We have had about a half-century of racial preferences and often unspoken but real quotas for hiring and admission based on racial identity. If the original intent was to level […]
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com The Corner By Victor Davis Hanson Posted on April 08, 2011 1:10 PM At some point, the Obama administration is going to recognize a simple paradox that has been apparent to almost everyone but them: In theory, those pro-American autocratic regimes that are tottering or gone (the Gulf States, Jordan, Egypt,
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Human Event’s Uncommon Knowledge interview with Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com By Victor Davis Hanson March 28, 2011 President Obama just gave a weird speech. Part George W. Bush, part trademark Obama — filled with his characteristic split-the-difference, straw-man (“some say, others say”), false-choice tropes. His support for those “yearning for freedom all around the world” was the sort of interventionist foreign policy
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Victor Davis Hanson March 17, 2011 12:00 A.M. President Hamlet Thinking out every possible side of a question can mean never acting on any of them. More than 400 years ago, William Shakespeare wrote a riveting tragedy about a young, charismatic Danish prince who vowed to do the right thing in
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February 24, 2011 By Victor Davis Hanson President Obama established a bipartisan debt-reduction commission — and then ignored its findings, which called for unpopular reductions in entitlements and across-the-board spending cuts. His first two budgets led to the largest deficits in U.S. history. The ensuing $3 trillion dollars in red ink prompted the tea party
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PAJAMASMEDIA.COM By Victor Davis Hanson February 13, 2011 In times to come, the period between the failed campaign of John Kerry and the Democratic control of the Congress, coupled with the beginning of the successful surge, should be known as “The Insane Years.” This was the era in which Guantanamo was a gulag, renditions were
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February 10, 2011 Jerry Brown: A Modern-Day Sisyphus By Victor Davis Hanson California Gov. Jerry Brown must rapidly close a $25 billion budgetary shortfall. But right now it seems almost a hopeless task since the state’s disastrous budget is a symptom, not the cause, of California’s much larger nightmare. Take unemployment. It currently runs 12.6
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February 4, 2011 Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere By Victor Davis Hanson The 2008 financial crash originated with a housing bubble. Not long ago, the cheap money policies of the Federal Reserve, the infusion of trillions of dollars in new foreign investment, and the misguided policies of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae all conspired to extend to
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com By Victor Davis Hanson December 15, 2010 12:00 P.M. Abandoned farms, Third World living conditions, pervasive public assistance — welcome to the once-thriving Central Valley. The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California. I wanted to witness, even if superficially,
