by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
I recently taped and am watching a documentary, “The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross,” on the History Channel. Continue reading “The History Channel’s Distortion of the Crusades”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
I recently taped and am watching a documentary, “The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross,” on the History Channel. Continue reading “The History Channel’s Distortion of the Crusades”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Postmodern Truth
One of the chief tenets of postmodernism is relativism — the notion that neither morality nor wisdom is absolute and definable, but instead simply predicated on what those with power and advantage say they are. Continue reading “America’s First Postmodern Presidency”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
When Words Don’t Mean Anything
Rather than an attempt to defend empirically Sotomayor’s suggestion that Latinas are superior, in the judicial sense, to white men, we have been given a variety of postmodern contexts, constructing what she “really” meant: Continue reading “Who’s To Judge?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time?
Michelle Obama is now weighing in on the Sotomayor nomination, and I think it will prove a serious political mistake, since she is reverting back to her “me too” campaign mode, in that she emphasizes both race and the anonymous “they” who are not nice or not sufficiently accommodating to the Other. Continue reading “The Sotomayor Nomination”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Goodbye, Europe
We are on our third, and last, leg of this year’s tour, and headed today from Chania, Crete to Athens. Continue reading “Reflections on an Age Now Fading . . .”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
President Obama has a much-publicized upcoming talk in Cairo that is rather pretentiously packaged as an address to the “Muslim world.” Continue reading “The Muslim World Address”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Why would the Iranian government spend billions of dollars on trying to develop a few first-generation nuclear bombs (as nearly everyone believes is the case) when the country is so poor that it has to ration gasoline? Continue reading “Israel’s Cuban Missile Crisis–All the Time”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Last July I wrote a column entitled “Barack W. Bush” outlining how candidate Barack Obama was strangely emulating Bush policies — even as he was trashing the president. Continue reading “Bush Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Beauty of Europe
One can see why millions of Muslims flock to Europe. Oh, I know it is the economic and political dividends of Western consensual governments and state capitalism that provide such material and spiritual freedom. Continue reading “Wandering Around Europe”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Sotomayor Nomination and the Politics of Racial Identity
One of the unexpected results of the Sotomayor nomination is a refocusing on the politics of racial identity and the fossilized institutions of affirmative action — or the belief that the U.S. government should use its vast power to ensure an equality of result rather than a fairness of opportunity. Continue reading “Lost in the Labyrinth of Race”