by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Americans for weeks woke up and went to bed to news updates about Anna Nicole Smith’s death and the fate of her daughter. Continue reading “Hooked On Trivia”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Americans for weeks woke up and went to bed to news updates about Anna Nicole Smith’s death and the fate of her daughter. Continue reading “Hooked On Trivia”
by Raymond Ibrahim
National Review Online
Is the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Masri, dead? Iraqi authorities just proclaimed that he was recently killed due to infighting. But al Qaeda-related websites beg to differ: “[H]e is still fighting the enemies of Allah.” Continue reading “Hydra of War”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
American Idol has been a remarkable success. Continue reading “Suffering Mascots”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Do we still need to fight a war on terror?
The answer seems to be no for an increasing number in the West who are weary over Afghanistan and Iraq or complacent from the absence of a major attack on the scale of 9/11. Continue reading “Is the War on Terror Over?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Not long ago I talked to a right-wing hardnosed fellow in a conservative central California town about the need to stay and finish the task of stabilizing the democracy in Iraq and rectifying the disastrous aftermath of 1991. Continue reading “Iraq, and the Truth We Dare Not Speak”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Imprimis
“The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land. As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map.” So rants Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Continue reading “Nuclear Iran?”
by Craig Bernthal
Private Papers
This week an on-line questionnaire went out from the thought police — oops — I mean the Provost, to the faculty in the university where I teach, asking us what we do in the classroom. Continue reading “Communiversity”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In the past week, Don Imus was fired, all charges against the Duke University lacrosse players were dropped, and almost everyone has offered a sermon about the racial and class issues involved in both cases. But we need look only to the Ancient Greeks for the best insight. Continue reading “Nemesis: Imus, Nifong Meet Their Match”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
The reaction to the murders in Blacksburg is eliciting the usual liberal nostrums. Continue reading “Imminent Danger”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The resigned Scooter Libby did not leak Valerie Plame’s name, a fact known to a special prosecutor charged with finding out who did and if were a crime. Continue reading “Iraqi Blowback”