Great Depression on Townhall

  • Victor Davis Hanson
    The current debt, recession, wars and political infighting have depressed Americans into thinking they soon will be supplanted by more vigorous rivals abroad. Yet this is an American fear as old as it is improbable. ... more
  • Great Expectations Fri Dec 31
    Oliver North
    Our country faces enormous challenges -- both domestic and foreign -- many of them exacerbated by what the Obama administration and the 111th Congress did and failed to do. ... more
  • Victor Davis Hanson
    The current debt, recession, wars and political infighting have depressed Americans into thinking they soon will be supplanted by more vigorous rivals abroad. Yet this is an American fear as old as it is improbable. ... more
  • Marybeth Hicks
    Turns out there's a new book that asserts today's 20-somethings are taking a "slower path to adulthood" and claims this is a good thing for them and for American society generally. ... more
  • Paul Driessen
    It’s become a predictable annual rite. Several weeks prior to each global warming gabfest, breathless news stories, editorials, op-eds and pontifications begin hitting the airwaves and print pages, reaching a crescendo as the conference opens. So it was with Copenhagen; so it is with Cancun. ... more
  • Ben Shapiro
  • J. T. Young
    The economy's mild second quarter contraction has many proclaiming the recession over. Now is therefore a good time to survey the current recession so frequently compared to the Depression. ... more
  • Michael Barone
    "Not since the Great Depression." "Not since the 1930s." You hear those phrases a lot these days, and with some reason. ... more
  • Robert Murphy
    It has become fashionable to compare our present economic crisis to the Great Depression, especially by partisan opponents of the Bush Administration. ... more