Winning the War
But don’t forget the rules of the strange conflict!
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
If we look back at the war that started on September 11, there have emerged some general rules that should guide us in the next treacherous round of the struggle against Islamic fascism, the autocracies that aid and abet it, and the method of terror that characterizes it. Continue reading “Winning the War”
A Pope for All Seasons
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
During the papal interregnum, divided Catholics await the new Holy Father to guide them in their third millennium, in which clergy in Roman-era headdresses send press releases via e-mail. Continue reading “A Pope for All Seasons”
‘Something Is Terribly, Terribly Wrong’
On the “seeming insanity” of U.S. immigration and assimilation practices
Interview by Marvin Olasky
World Magazine
Marvin Olasky interviewed Victor Davis Hanson for World Magazine.
WORLD’S INTRODUCTION: If you can only read one book on the immigration issue, read Mexifornia (Encounter Books, 2003), which author Victor Davis Hanson accurately describes as “part melancholy remembrance of a world gone by, part detached analysis by a historian who knows well the treacherous sirens of romance and nostalgia, and part advocacy by a teacher who always wanted his students to be second to none.” Continue reading “‘Something Is Terribly, Terribly Wrong’”
Our Not-So-Wise Experts
A litany of past failure
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Brent Scowcroft predicted on the eve of the Iraqi elections that voting there would increase the risk of civil war. Indeed, he foresaw “a great potential for deepening the conflict.” He also once assured us that Iraq “could become a Vietnam in a way that the Vietnam war never did.” Did he mean perhaps worse than ten years of war and over 50,000 American dead, with the Cambodian holocaust next door? Continue reading “Our Not-So-Wise Experts”
Victor Davis Hanson “Live” with TAE
Hanson comments on topics from the Iraqi war to decline of the West
The American Enterprise
Professor Hanson was interviewed for TAE by Los Angeles journalist David Isaac. Continue reading “Victor Davis Hanson “Live” with TAE”
Move the U.N.?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Americans grew up with kind feelings toward the United Nations. Many remain nostalgic about their childhood UNESCO Halloween buckets and UNICEF Christmas cards. Such goodwill explains why we host the organization and cover a quarter of its operating budget. Continue reading “Move the U.N.?”
A Smoking Gun at Columbia University
A new saga in the assault on academic freedom unravels
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
If you’ve ever wondered how American universities can continue to allow political advocacy and indoctrination to flourish in their classrooms, consider the recent controversy over Columbia University’s department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC). Continue reading “A Smoking Gun at Columbia University”
The Bush Dilemma
If the president is willing to take risks abroad, why won’t he do it at home?
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Recent developments in the Middle East — whether democratic unrest in Lebanon, Syrian vows to keep within its own borders, promises of elections in Egypt, or Sunni clerics’ professions that they may cease opposition to the elected Iraqi government — should be welcome to the American people and substantiate the unfairly caricatured Middle East policies of the Bush administration. Continue reading “The Bush Dilemma”
Remembering Okinawa
Dealing with suicide bombers–60 years ago
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Sixty years ago, the United States military invaded Okinawa on April 1, 1945, the last bastion of the Japanese maritime empire that stood in the way of an assault on the mainland. Continue reading “Remembering Okinawa”