by Bruce S. Thornton
City Journal
Many observers noted that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Columbia University took place at about the same time that the University of California at Davis canceled a speaking appearance by former Harvard president Lawrence Summers, citing his remarks in 2005 about the underrepresentation of women in the sciences. Continue reading “Ideology Trumps Truth on Campus”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
I was once more under-whelmed by Mr. Bateman’s fourth and final attack on Carnage and Culture. Continue reading “The Bateman Files – Case Closed”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
And on and on and on and on from the increasingly unhinged LTC Bateman…. Continue reading “Bateman Encore”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The war in Iraq — as all wars — is fraught with savage ironies.
In the build-up to the invasion, anti-Americanism in Europe reached a near frenzy. Continue reading “Iraq’s Savage Ironies”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
There’s an old expression about war: “Victory has many fathers, while defeat is an orphan.” But in the case of Iraq, it seems the other way around. We’ve blamed many for the ordeal of the last four years, but it is the American victory in Anbar province that now seems without parents. Continue reading “When Good News Is No News”
by Raymond Ibrahim
National Review Online
A number of book reviewers have recently pointed to the similarities between The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf. For instance, writing in the New York Observer, James Buchan notes that, “In their [al Qaeda’s] brutality and candor, their fulminations against democracy and loose morals, their obsession with territory, their finicky racism and absolute disdain for the material needs of the public, these documents are a strange echo of Hitler’s writings from prison.” Continue reading “The Fascistic Mind”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
A civilization is won or lost by those who fight to protect it — and judged as deserving by the gratitude offered to its soldiers by those who were saved. Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that there are now Americans in battle in the tradition of 1776, 1864, 1918, or 1944. But are we, the public, still cognizant of their sacrifice as our forefathers once were? Continue reading “Freedom, Even from Fear”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Oil is nearly $100 a barrel. Gas may soon reach $4 a gallon. And Americans are being bitten in almost every way imaginable by this insidious oil hydra. Continue reading “The Oil Hydra”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
I don’t think many Americans would argue that the answer for the sometimes lethargic, elected Karzai government in Afghanistan should be a coup by a Pashtun warlord and his battle-hardened lieutenants. Continue reading “Dictators and Democrats”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
When Barack Obama accused Hillary Clinton of “playing the gender card,” the hypocrisy that typically defines our public discourse on race descended into the surreal. Continue reading “Liberal Racism”