by Victor Davis Hanson
Times Literary Supplement
Persian Fire: The first world empire and the battle for the West by Tom Holland (Little, Brown: 418pp.) Continue reading “The First Clash of Civilization”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Times Literary Supplement
Persian Fire: The first world empire and the battle for the West by Tom Holland (Little, Brown: 418pp.) Continue reading “The First Clash of Civilization”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Welcome to the trenches of the culture wars, where academic notions of political correctness, multiculturalism and cultural relativism meet the brawling American street. Continue reading “The Trenches of the Culture Wars”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Some 30 months after the removal of Saddam Hussein, an unspoken consensus is emerging about Iraq. Continue reading “The Quiet Consensus on Iraq”
by Victor Davis Hanson
The New Criterion
In spring 401 B.C., amid the detritus of the recently ended twenty-seven-year-long war between Athens and Sparta, about 13,000 Greek mercenary soldiers marched eastward in the pay of the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger. The Greeks weren’t quite sure where they were ultimately headed. Most of them at first didn’t seem to care — even if it seemed unlikely that they were simply hired, as told, to put down some quarreling among insurrectionist Persian satraps. Continue reading “Thalatta! Thalatta!”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers
Al-Qaeda has shrewdly seen to it that, along with the sword, they also employ the pen in their Holy War. Continue reading “Al Qaeda’s Offensive Rhetoric: What Does Al-Qaeda Ultimately Want?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
After the 2000 elections, George W. Bush became president without a majority vote. Many Europeans snickered at the sorry spectacle of the world’s oldest continuous democracy devolving into Third-World election chaos. Few critics cared to hear about the nature of America’s two-century-old Electoral College. Continue reading “Conflicted Europe”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
by Victor Davis Hanson
Claremont Review of Books
Whether or not you agreed with them, university presidents used to be dignified figures on the American scene. Continue reading “Ivory Cower”
by Victor Davis Hanson
The American Enterprise
The new chasm between Europe and the United States seems to widen still — even as transatlantic diplomats assure us that it has narrowed — despite a common heritage and a supposedly shared goal of global democracy, free markets, and defeating terrorists. Continue reading “Today’s Euro-USA Split Will Persist”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
After the Israelis’ recent pullout from the Gaza Strip, chaos broke out. Greenhouses that had been purchased by international agencies for future Palestinian use were ransacked by the beneficiaries. Violent fights over looted equipment escalated among squatters, the government and terrorists. Continue reading “Chaos in Gaza”