More essential VDH
Victor Davis Hanson has written another fine one. The comments make interesting, although sobering, reading as well.
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The new head of GM: let’s hear it for on-the-job training
The newly appointed chairman of GM admits he don’t know nothin’ ’bout makin’ cars. But he vows to learn. The Treasury Department thinks Edward E. Whiteacre Jr., who spent his 43-year career at AT&T, is just the ticket for the … Continue reading →
Deficit wars and common sense
The NY Times offers this article by David Leonhardt that purports to prove that Obama isn’t responsible for much of our projected deficit problem—although it does admit that he hasn’t done much of anything to fix it. Is anyone the … Continue reading →
Wanting the impossible: more on cutting health care costs
Ah, it seems so easy. We all know that there’s waste in health care. We all know that there are unnecessary tests and treatments, and that if we could figure out what they are and eliminate them, health care costs … Continue reading →
Chrysler and Fiat: can this marriage be stayed?
Justice Ginsberg has ordered a temporary stay of the Chrysler-Fiat sale. This doesn’t mean a whole lot as yet. The decision can be easily reversed at any time and the deal allowed to go ahead. That may indeed be what … Continue reading →
Labor’s labours lost
Is this news from Britain a portent of things to come here?: Deputy Labor leader Harriet Harman conceded the European election results were a “very, very bad defeat” for Labor but said Brown, 58, was “resilient” and would fight on. … Continue reading →
Does government know how to end health care waste?
This editorial in today’s WSJ points out that Obamacare rests on a number of unproven assumptions: The main White House argument for health-care reform goes something like this: If we spend now on a hugely expensive new insurance program for … Continue reading →
Victor Davis Hanson’s “Reckoning”
Just read it. It’s one of his best ever—and that’s saying a lot. And then read this, which is closely connected. And realize the truth of Kundera’s words: for contemporary man reality is a continent visited less and less often.
Continue reading →D-Day: the way it was, and is
Today is the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the Normandy landings in WWII. Here’s a video with a few grainy clips of the Allies wading ashore: I wonder how many people under forty, either here or in Europe, now know or … Continue reading →
The Cuban spies…
…have come in from the cold. What I find particularly interesting are the blue-blood origins of Kendall Myers and his wife, and the cozy little place he’d made for himself in elite academia all these years. There’s also this tidbit … Continue reading →
Obama and the axis of see-no-evil
Dr. Sanity writes about Obama’s grandiose belief in the power of his own voice and persona to persuade the lion to lie down with the lamb. If in fact he even understands the difference between the two animals.
Continue reading →Allan Bloom and the struggle for the soul of the university
I’ve been slowly plowing through Allan Bloom‘s dense but nevertheless wonderful 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind. It’s an indictment of alarming trends in higher education that took hold in the 60s and have only accelerated since. I … Continue reading →