by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Read any newspaper or turn on any news broadcast and you’re bound to encounter stories of Islamic radicals fighting, killing and threatening each other — and just about everyone else. Continue reading “Why Radical Islam–And Why Now?”
by Craig Bernthal
Private Papers
Here is the plot and the theme: God creates the universe, not because he needs to, since he is complete in himself, but as an act of gratuitous love. Continue reading “A Symphony Unheard”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Everyone seems to take some joy in listening to outgoing secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, especially during the holidays. But just as with other such ethicists as a lip-biting Bill Clinton or creased-browed Jimmy Carter, Annan is as publicly acclaimed as he is privately ignored. Continue reading “What Is Annanism?”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
There’s an Elvis Costello lyric that goes, “I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.” Continue reading “High Anxiety”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
One of the many bizarre recommendations in the recently released report from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group is the call to talk with Iran. A formal dialogue with the present Iranian leadership is, for a number of reasons, as misguided as it is amoral. Continue reading “Talking to Iran: Moral and Strategic Mistake”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Commentary Magazine (December 2006)
In recent years, the term “revolution in military affairs” (RMA) has come to be applied to the vast change that computerized intelligence and globalization have brought to the conduct of war. This catchy sobriquet, however, is only a new name for something very old. In fact, radical transformations in military practice have marked Western history at least since Sparta and Athens squared off in the Peloponnesian war in the 5th century B.C.E. Continue reading “War-Making and the Machines of War”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
These are strange times.
Perennially beleaguered Israel, for instance, was hit all summer long with rockets from Lebanon and Gaza, as the world watched and kept score in an absurd new game of proportionality: Continue reading “Israel Did it!”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
On Dec. 7, 1941 — 65 years ago this week — pilots from a Japanese carrier force bombed Pearl Harbor. They killed 2,403 Americans, most of them service personnel, while destroying much of the American fleet and air forces stationed in Hawaii. Continue reading “Our Pearl Harbor”
by Victor Davis Hanson
WSJ Opinion Journal
Our current crisis is not yet a catastrophe, but a real loss of confidence of the spirit. The hard-won effort of the Western Enlightenment of some 2,500 years that, along with Judeo-Christian benevolence, is the foundation of our material progress, common decency, and scientific excellence, is at risk in this new millennium. Continue reading “Losing the Enlightenment”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
With the gruesome killing of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, Vladimir Putin’s Russia stands accused of poisoning yet another critic. Continue reading “Blood and Oil”