by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The summer and fall have been and will be momentous: national political conventions, elections slated in Afghanistan and here at home, the Olympics, high gas prices, and near cultural hysteria, whether measured by Fahrenheit 9/11 or the Swift-boat ads. But brace yourself — this is only the beginning. Continue reading “Brace Yourself”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Even in daytime fighters do not perceive anything; indeed, nobody knows anything more than what is going on right around himself.
So the fifth-century B.C. military historian Thucydides commented on the confusion of battle on the heights above Syracuse (413 B.C.), and, indirectly, on the inability of historians such as himself to sort out the conflicting accounts provided by veterans of all battles. Continue reading “The Fog of Battle”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
Everyone knows magicians use misdirection to make their illusions work. While one hand distracts us the other is pulling the egg or coin from its hiding place. Continue reading “Four Months in Vietnam”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The scheduled partial U.S. troop withdrawals from Europe were long overdue; some of us had become shrill and hoarse in calling for them over the past few years. Continue reading “Welcome Back, Europe”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
Uncommon Dissent. Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing, ed. William A. Dembski (ISI Books) Continue reading “Challenging Darwinian Fundamentalism”
by Victor Davis Hanson
For now Americans seem to be split 50-50 over the reelection of George W. Bush. Such a hotly contested election is hardly new. We saw races just as close in 1960, 1968, and 1976. Continue reading “On Loathing Bush”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The last two weeks I have been following the route of the American Army’s drive from Normandy into Germany in 1944-5. Continue reading “If the Dead Could Talk”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
I would never have imagined that journalists, academics, actors, artists, and the intelligentsia in general would have so opposed the end of dictatorship and promotion of democracy abroad. Continue reading “A Return to Childhood: The New Immaturity”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
If you want a good example of the “long march through the institutions” undertaken by sixties leftists after they left school, look no further than the career of Orville Schell, dean of Berkeley’s School of Journalism. Continue reading “Embedded and Elitist Left”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The last two weeks I have been following the route of the American Army’s drive from Normandy into Germany in 1944-5. It is quite something to visit Aachen, Mainz, the Hürtzen forest, Bastogne, Omaha Beach, and Pointe du Hoc, and then juxtapose such visits with the daily pabulum in the International Herald Tribune, CNN, and the European dailies. Continue reading “If the Dead Could Talk”