by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
It is often said that the United States has neither a long-term strategy in this larger war against terror nor an immediate one in Iraq. Both are unfair charges, since we seem to have both. Continue reading “Do We Have a Strategy in the War?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
When I wrote Mexifornia more than three years ago, much of the criticism came from the academic and open-borders left. The memoir was considered insensitive in our politically correct age for complaining that it was not wise or moral that millions were here illegally from Mexico. Continue reading “The Shifting Debate over Illegal Immigration”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
I’ve been reading one of the great works of recent history, Robert Conquest’s Reflections on a Ravaged Century. Continue reading “Total Silence”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The first Western Enlightenment of the Greek fifth-century B.C. sought to explain natural phenomena through reason rather than superstition alone. Ethics were to be discussed in the realm of logic as well as religion. Continue reading “Traitors to the Enlightenment”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Hating Jews, on racial as well as religious grounds, is as old as the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Later in Europe, pogroms and the Holocaust were the natural devolution of that elemental venom. Continue reading “The New Anti-Semitism”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Make no apologies for the use of “Islamic fascism.” It is the perfect nomenclature for the agenda of radical Islam, for a variety of historical and scholarly reasons. That such usage also causes extreme embarrassment to both the Islamists themselves and their leftist “anti-fascist” appeasers in the West is just too bad. Continue reading “Islamic Fascism 101”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers
The Pope is under attack. Once again, riots, demonstrations, and “retaliations” have sparked throughout the Muslim world. Continue reading “Warning: Quote History at Your Own Risk”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Despite their dreams of recapturing one or both houses of Congress this November, the Democrats seem determined to reprise their poor showings in 2002 and 2004. Continue reading “Democratic Hares: No Match for Steady Republican Policy”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers
If seeing Arab, Pakistani, or other “ethnic” Muslims menacingly wave their hands while lambasting the West is nothing strange, seeing homegrown, non-accented Western converts doing the same thing is. Continue reading “Islam’s Appeal”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In speeches leading up to the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, President Bush focused on the dangers of Islamic fascism and the efforts, both at home and abroad, to combat them. Continue reading “Osama’s 9/11 Anniversary”