by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
It is easy to damn the 1930s appeasers of Hitler — such as Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain in England and Edouard Daladier in France — given what the Nazis ultimately did when unleashed. But history demands not merely recognizing the truth post facto, but also trying to reconstruct the rationale of something that now in hindsight seems inexplicable. Continue reading “Appeasement 101”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Real Clear Politics
Nothing is quite as surreal as the Islamic world’s fury at the liberal and innocuous Danes. How could anyone wish to burn their embassies and kill their citizens, when they have always offered all the politically correct, multicultural platitudes and welcomed in any and all from the Middle East? Continue reading “What Will Europe Really Do?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Real Clear Politics
Over the last four years Americans have played a sort of parlor game wondering when — or if — the Europeans might awake to the danger of Islamic fascism and choose a more muscular role in the war on terrorism. Continue reading “A European Awakening Against Islamic Fascism?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
How many times have we heard the following whining and yet received no specific answers from our leaders? Continue reading “Why No Nukes for Iran?”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
Even as the ACLU frets over the privacy of people chatting with Al Qaeda on their cell phones or googling bomb-making instructions on public library computers, a more serious threat to civil liberties and personal freedom has long been institutionalized in our society. Continue reading “Sexual Harassment or Censorship?”
by Bruce S. Thornton and Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
[Editor’s Note: In the Sunday February 5, 2006 edition of the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Fresno-based Times reporter Mark Arax published an essay purportedly about how acrimony over 9/11 issues, Iraq, and the war on terror has divided his community “The Valley’s Not So Civil War”. In fact, the piece was slanted, replete with factual errors, and almost laughable in its caricatures, especially of Fresno-area “Jews.” Here is our response to the essay by Victor Davis Hanson and Bruce Thornton, Private Papers contributors who were both mentioned in the article, and like Arax are both natives and life-long residents of the valley.] Continue reading “Fantasy and Worse from the Los Angeles Times”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Sparks sure fly when the premodern world of religious piety and the postmodern world of Monty Python collide. Middle Eastern Muslims have demonstrated, threatened, boycotted and burned in their fury over European newspapers republishing months-old distasteful cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Continue reading “Bad Taste and Freedom”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The great wealth and leisure created by modern technology have confused some in the modern age into thinking that history is linear. Continue reading “Losing Civilization”
by Bruce S. Thornton
The New Individualist
by Victor Davis Hanson
The American Enterprise Magazine
Why did the successful war in Iraq to replace Saddam Hussein with a democracy lose the majority support of the American public? Continue reading “What History Says About the Iraq War”