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Hugh Hewitt: As Thanksgiving Week Opens
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — Victor Davis Hanson pens a blunt ten-point assessment of our current situation, but I think he should follow up with the 10 best things he sees about him. (HT: ...

Hugh Hewitt: As Thanksgiving Week Opens
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Victor Davis Hanson pens a blunt ten-point assessment of our current situation, but I think he should follow up with the 10 best things he sees about him. (HT: ...

Ten Random, Politically Incorrect Thoughts
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Lftbhndang’s pick for read of the day… Real Clear Politics November 24, 2008 By Victor Davis Hanson 1. Four years of high-school Latin would dramatically arrest the decline in American education. In particular, such instruction would do more for minority youths than all the ‘role model’ diversity sermons on Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Montezuma, and Caesar Chavez put together. Nothing so enriches the vocabulary, so instructs about English grammar and syntax, so creates a discipline of the ...

Ten Random, Politically Incorrect Thoughts
The Hollywood Liberal — Ten Random, Politically Incorrect Thoughts 1. Four years of high-school Latin would dramatically arrest the decline in American education. In particular, such instruction would do more for minority youths than all the ‘role model’ diversity sermons on Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Montezuma, and Caesar Chavez put together. Nothing so enriches the vocabulary, so instructs about English grammar and syntax, so creates a discipline of the mind, an elegance of expression, and serves as a gateway to the thinking and values of Western civilization as mastery of a page of Virgil ...

VDH's 7 reasons for optimism
Power Line — Earlier this week Victor Davis Hanson proclaimed ten random politically incorrect thoughts. Hugh Hewitt suggested that Professor Hanson follow up with the best 10 things he sees around him. Yesterday Professor Hanson obliged, offering 7 random politicallly incorrect reasons to be optimistic on Thanksgiving Day. Here is part of his column devoted to health care, though it applies equally as a ground to be pessimistic about the effects of prospective reforms: Most who denigrate American medicine know nothing of the alternative. I ...