by Victor Davis Hanson This series written for Private Papers will appear in four parts. Part Three The wages of postmodernism, or when facts do not exist, we can invent our own reality Remember the preexisting landscape of postmodern thinking of the last two decades that has dominated the intelligentsia, specifically the Foucauldian notion that there […]
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Recently there was a demonstration not far from my home in central California. A number of illegal aliens were marching to demand the right to obtain California driver’s licenses. Their shrill advocates on television claimed that illegal residents of the state were willing to put up with demeaning questions […]
It’s not about what he does. 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.
The Long March through Schools of Journalism 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.
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online RONALD REAGAN’S legacy is not one of ideological purity. He raised taxes and signed liberal abortion legislation in California. Despite his “evil empire” speech, he was not the preeminent Cold Warrior: Truman and Eisenhower had both fashioned the policy of containment and deterrence.
Who exactly was Ronald Reagan? by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers One of the strangest developments following the recent funeral of Ronald Reagan was the emergence of all sorts of “authentic” — and irreconcilable—Reagans.
The high costs to free speech of vague legal terms and frivolous cases. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Even as the civil liberties fundamentalists continue to fret over the Patriot Act and the treatment of terrorists in our custody, a more insidious and dangerous assault on our freedom, one that has been going on […]
A shorter version of this essay appeared in a Reagan commemorative issue of National Review Magazine. by Victor Davis Hanson There will be a great deal of blanket praise written about Ronald Reagan in the next few days. Yet I don’t think his legacy will be judged by his unwavering ideological purity.
by Victor Davis Hanson Times Literary Supplement Rural Greece Under the Democracy by Nicholas F. Jones Pennsylvania, 2004. xii + 330 $59.95 A version of this review appears in the June 25, 2004 issue of the Times Literary Supplement.
by Victor Davis Hanson New York Post, April 25, 2004 Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, 366 pages, $25.95