Obama’s Teachable Mosque Moment

Interview by Jamie Glazov

FrontPage Magazine

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern. Continue reading “Obama’s Teachable Mosque Moment”

Iraq Through the Looking Glass

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

Most Americans will support President Obama’s call for patience in Afghanistan and his policy of continuing the long-planned drawdown in Iraq. Continue reading “Iraq Through the Looking Glass”

America–Compared to What?

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

While America debates whether a “bridge-building” Imam Rauf should erect his $100-million, 13-story outreach “Islamic complex” (is the name “Cordoba House” now officially to be dropped? And if so, could Mr. Rauf or the media explain why?) next to Ground Zero, Islam seems to be at war with most of the rest of the world, or perhaps vice versa. Continue reading “America–Compared to What?”

The Sources of American Anger

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Behind the anger over the Arizona immigration mess, the Ground Zero mosque, the economy, and the new directions in foreign policy are some recurring general themes that reverberate in each particular new controversy. Continue reading “The Sources of American Anger”

The Dangerous Dog Days of Summer

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

Historian Barbara Tuchman characterized the events leading up to World War I as the “Guns of August.” Continue reading “The Dangerous Dog Days of Summer”

With a Whimper or a Bang–or Not at All?

by Victor Davis Hanson

PJ Media

Are We Tottering?

Societies can sometimes implode abruptly, like the Mycenaeans from mysterious causes, the Aztecs before Cortés, or the Zulu nation in 1879 — or gradually and insidiously, such as Rome in the latter fifth century BC or Britain between 1946 and 1960. Continue reading “With a Whimper or a Bang–or Not at All?”

The Allawi Dance

The Iraqi minister’s new book quivers and vacillate on Islamic culture.

by Raymond Ibrahim

Middle East Quarterly

A review of The Crisis of Islamic Civilization by Ali A. Allawi (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. 304 pp.). Continue reading “The Allawi Dance”

‘Islam Idiots’?

by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

One might understand why Newsweek recently sold for a dollar and apparently went the way of Harper’s from David A. Graham’s “The Islam Idiots.” Continue reading “‘Islam Idiots’?”

Top Muslims Condemn Ground Zero Mosque as a ‘Zionist Conspiracy’

by Raymond Ibrahim

PJ Media

In a recent article, I argued that the Ground Zero mosque is counterproductive to Islam. Continue reading “Top Muslims Condemn Ground Zero Mosque as a ‘Zionist Conspiracy’”