A Great American Thinker & National Treasure: VDH
Our children will soon become poor because we hold on to the romance that producing food and fuel and saving money are icky tasks to be ignored or left to others.
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National Review
5.7.2009
The glamorous ends get the attention, never the mundane means of how to obtain them.
Today’s Americans inherited the wealthiest nation in history — but only because earlier generations learned how to feed, fuel, finance, and defend themselves in ways unrivaled elsewhere.
Lately we have forgotten that and instead seem to expect others to do for us what we used to do ourselves.
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May 6, 2009
Nothing New Under the Sun
by Victor Davis Hanson
Pajamas Media
The Same Old Equality of Result
Rather than nitpick about Obama’s envisioned brave new world, I think it wiser to see it in the larger context of age-old divides over the nature of Western democratic and liberal society. Nothing that we have seen proposed since January 20 is novel; everything is merely the promise of the past outfitted with a new snazzier veneer of hope and change....
posted by jillosophy at 5/07/2009 11:26:00 AM
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