Policy and Political Commentator

Peter Hansen

6 articles 2002–2017

Peter Hansen is a writer who contributed to The Weekly Standard between 2002 and 2017. His pieces for the magazine covered economic policy, healthcare reform, and political commentary, including an open letter to Mitt Romney during his presidential campaign.

Winners and Losers

May 19, 2017 · Immigration, Books and Art, Magazine

Anyone wishing to learn more about the economic effects of immigration on America and American workers would do well to read this book. George J. Borjas is a highly respected economist at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and one of the world's foremost experts on the economics of immigration.…

Dogs and Cats Living Together

November 14, 2011 · Features, Tea Party, Magazine

What if the two prominent grassroots movements of the day, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, joined forces to support an agenda that would be good for America? 

A Faster, Better Stimulus

January 13, 2009 · Peter J. Hansen, Blog

Congress and President-elect Obama are frantically considering how to stimulate the weakening economy, but even with Washington under unified Democratic control, it is proving hard to move quickly.

Strange Land

August 26, 2002 · Magazine, Peter J. Hansen, Books and Arts

Aliens in America The Strange Truth about Our Souls by Peter Augustine Lawler ISI, 350 pp., $24.95 THE BOOK TITLE "Aliens in America" derives from a remark that Walker Percy made about Carl Sagan. Percy wondered why Sagan was so eager to find aliens on other planets when our own planet is peopled…