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Victor Davis Hanson

 

After Obama, the Deluge

By Victor Davis Hanson (Feb 24, 2011)

President Obama established a bipartisan debt-reduction commission -- and then ignored its findings, which called for unpopular reductions in entitlements and... more

Pruning Farm Subsidies

By Victor Davis Hanson (Feb 17, 2011)

In times of massive deficits, why are we borrowing millions to subsidize profitable agribusiness? Lots of presidents have asked that question. George H.W. Bush tried to cut... more

Jerry Brown, a Modern Sisyphus

By Victor Davis Hanson (Feb 10, 2011)

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... more

The Loud Passing of the Old Order

By Victor Davis Hanson (Jan 27, 2011)

American reality has been turned upside down in just 20 years. Americans no longer count on their news to be filtered and shaped by the Associated Press or the New York... more

The Bloomberg Syndrome

By Victor Davis Hanson (Jan 20, 2011)

After the recent Tucson, Ariz., shootings, Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik, a Democrat, almost immediately and without evidence claimed that conservative... more

The Tab Comes Due in 2011

By Victor Davis Hanson (Jan 13, 2011)

Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and both the elder and younger George Bush all found the third and fourth years of their presidencies harder than the first and second. The nation... more

The New Sophists

By Victor Davis Hanson (Jan 06, 2011)

In classical Athens, public life became dominated by clever and smart-sounding sophists. These mellifluous "really wise guys" made money and gained influence by their... more