The Right Coast (Free subscription) | yesterday
VDH is right on with this. Nothing is more appalling than self-styled conservatives trying to jump on the Obama bandwagon at this late date.
Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | yesterday
After Victor Davis Hanson observes: Indeed, McCain as a vicious campaigner is a complete fabrication, but, again, a brilliant subterfuge on the part of Team Obama that, in fact, has run, via appendages, the far more vicious race. Obama and his surrogates have repeatedly engaged in racial politics (as Bill Clinton lamented when in fury he denounced the "race card"); when there was...
Middlebrow (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Here is audio from Victor Davis Hanson’s recent speech at Biola. Following the news day by day can kind of beat up your mind, especially right now with the election, the war, and the financial crisis. These are all big stories that don’t fit daily updates very well. Every now and then [...]
Libertyblog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Victor Davis Hanson takes some names: This is becoming a very strange campaign. On CNN this evening both David Gergen and Ed Rollins echoed the current mantra that the "old" noble McCain is gone, and a "new" nastier one has...
Middlebrow (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
On October 8, 2008, Victor Davis Hanson spoke at Biola University about the issues facing our modern nation, and the lessons we can learn from the classical tradition. This event was sponsored by the Biola Marines Club, the Torrey Honors Institute, the Christian Apologetics Department, and Associated Students. A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Dr. [...]
Consul-At-Arms (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Hugh Hewitt ("A Blog of Townhall.Com") has posted the transcript of his interview with Victor Davis Hanson. It's awesome-licious. Money quote(s); On the financial crisis: "(T)he best and the brightest got us into this mess. It doesn’t mean that a Harvard Law degree is synonymous with ignorance, but it doesn’t mean necessarily it’s synonymous with excellence. And we’re seeing people...
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
I spent two hours with historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson yesterday discussing the election and the candidates, the war and the world.The podcast of hour one is here, and of hour two is here. I rarely post an...
Middlebrow (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Victor Davis Hanson spoke twice at Biola University on October 8. His afternoon lecture was on one of his specialties, the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. Reading Thucydides has been a standard assignment for students in the Torrey Honors Institute for a long time. But it’s a rare student who feels love [...]
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
I spent two hours with historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson yesterday discussing the election and the candidates, the war and the world.The podcast of hour one is here, and of hour two is here. I rarely post an...
Heavy-Handed Politics (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Victor Davis Hanson : Until the past few weeks, the financial panic was still mostly far away on Wall Street. But not now. Car loans, mortgages and college financing are suddenly harder to come by. Millions are stuck in houses not worth what is owed on them. Cash-strapped consumers are cutting back. The economy is slowing. Jobs are disappearing. Who wants to open quarterly 401(k)...
The Black Kettle (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
By Victor Davis Hanson, NRO: Until the past few weeks, the financial panic was still mostly far away on Wall Street. But not now. Car loans, mortgages, and college financing are suddenly harder to come by. Millions are stuck in houses not worth what is owed on them. Cash-strapped consumers are cutting back. The economy is slowing. Jobs are disappearing. Who wants to open quarterly...
USA Partisan (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
A ncient thinkers from Thucydides to Cicero insisted that money was the real source of military power and national influence. We've been reminded of that classical wisdom these last three weeks. Read ...
This isn’t writing, it’s typing. (Free subscription) | yesterday
Peter Kirsanow suggests on The Corner that Barack Obama's race card has been played a bit too often: Now Fidel Castro agrees with Obama supporters that racism has infected the campaign. Perfect. As both Victor Davis Hanson and Mark Steyn note, accusations or insinuations of racism have been part of Obama's campaign strategy since the primaries. The media have cooperated enthusiastically...
Donklephant (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a column for Pajamas Media, conservative scholar and essayist Victor Davis Hanson fights back against the trickle of conservatives who’ve bailed on John McCain. Hanson notes that the “nasty McCain campaign” isn’t particularly loathsome in historical context and that Barack Obama supporters have smeared McCain and Palin just as harshly. He touches on a [...]
The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
Now Fidel Castro agrees with Obama supporters that racism has infected the campaign. Perfect. As both Victor Davis Hanson and Mark Steyn note, accusations or insinuations of racism have been part of Obama's campaign strategy since the primaries. The media have cooperated enthusiastically in this endeavor, painting substantive criticisms of Obama as racist. Obama has deployed the...
