May 27, 2008 Why International Borders Remain in Flux
by Victor Davis Hanson The American
After the convulsions that followed the postwar collapse of European imperialism in Asia and Africa, we had once again become accustomed to the idea that the map as we knew it was static and fixed.
May 23, 2008 Beneath the Hope . . .
Obama and the politics of grievance
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine
The more Barack Obama racks up majorities in states with large university and African-American populations the more he seems to fare poorly in the electoral-vote-rich states...
May 20, 2008 Appeasement and Its Discontents
Obama & Dubya.
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online
Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.
May 15, 2008 What’s Wrong with Democrats?
Some thoughts on Carter, Pelosi, and Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Pious Amorality
In what I think was a rephrensible one-sided Jimmy Carter article in the Guardian condemning Israel for the conditions in Gaza, I was struck by these two sentences:
May 13, 2008 What's Wrong with Republicans?
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO's The Corner
On this great debate, I tend to agree with Mark Levin and others that conservatives should reach out with conservative principles better framed and presented, rather than change the message for the perceived advantage of the hour.
May 9, 2008 More Blaming the Messenger
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Andrew Sullivan has devolved into one of those fringe, and by now hysterical, voices that almost no one on their own initiative quotes or refers to for enlightenment — but ends up on occasion replying to, since his stock and trade methods of gaining exposure are reduced to constant venom and unfounded falsities.
May 6, 2008 The New Learning That Failed
by Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion
Ten years ago John Heath and I wrote a lament for the decline of classical learning in the university — Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom.
May 5, 2008 The Half-Won, Half-Lost War
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The gloomy election-year refrain is that America is mired in Iraq, took its eye off Afghanistan, empowered Iran and is losing the war on terror. But how accurate is that pessimistic diagnosis?
May 1, 2008 No Country for Old Liberals
by
Bruce Thornton
Private Papers
According to liberals, they are tolerant, open-minded, sensitive to complexity and nuance, and wary of simplistic explanations. So why is a column by the liberal Michael Hirsh, in the liberal newsweekly Newsweek, so intolerant, close-minded, simplistic and bigoted?
April 29, 2008 Orwellian Times
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The Scary Legacy of the 2008 Democratic Primary
One of the strangest things about the NAACP Wright pseudo-scientific speech on learning, and its enthusiastic CNN coverage and analysis, was the abject racialism of Wright. It was sort of an inverse Bell-Curve presentation, based on assumed DNA differences.
April 28, 2008 A New Environmentalism
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Tuesday was Earth Day, and it reminded us how environmentalism has helped to preserve the natural habitat of the United States — reducing the manmade pollution of our soils, air and water that is a byproduct of comfortable modern industrial life.
April 25, 2008 Jihad Studies as Trivia
by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers
This article was first published in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard.
Anew article by Thomas Hegghammer in the Times Literary Supplement, entitled “Jihadi studies: the obstacles to understanding radical Islam and the opportunities to know it better,” lives up to its title — not so much by delineating what these obstacles are, but rather by being representative of them. Regrettably, the author evokes the same old mantras prevalent in modern academia’s study of jihad and jihadists.
April 24, 2008 The Second Coming of McGovern
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO The Corner
Hillary won just enough to show that it is ludicrous to oust a 10-point winner at this late junction, but not quite the blow-out that might cause a stampede to her in the next few states.
April 21, 2008 Casualties of the Campaign
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
It is only four months into 2008, but the presidential campaign — already too long and nasty — is still a long way from over. And the casualties are mounting.
April 15, 2008 Islam’s Public Enemy #1
Coptic priest Zakaria Botros fights fire with fire.
by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online
Though he is little known in the West, Coptic priest Zakaria Botros — named Islam’s “Public Enemy #1” by the Arabic newspaper, al-Insan al-Jadid — has been making waves in the Islamic world.
April 14, 2008 Where Have All the Liberals Gone?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
These days Democrats are not sounding very liberal. Classic liberals, after all, would support free markets, internationalism and the universal desire for constitutional government, while downplaying racial affinity.
April 11, 2008 Back to the Good Ole Days Before Dubya?
How Obama will restore America's standing in the world.
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online
We know the critique of present American foreign policy under George W. Bush ...
April 2, 2008 Real Talk?
The Saudi king ought to stop killing non-Muslims first.
by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online
According to the Associated Press, Saudi King Abdullah, in an unprecedented move last week, “made an impassioned plea for dialogue among Muslims, Christians, and Jews” — going so far as to refer to the latter two as “our brothers.” The Jerusalem Post
