by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When I wrote Mexifornia more than three years ago, much of the criticism came from the academic and open-borders left. The memoir was considered insensitive in our politically correct age for complaining that it was not wise or moral that millions were here illegally from Mexico. Share This
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Conquest reveals Western “traitors to the human mind.” by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers I’ve been reading one of the great works of recent history, Robert Conquest’s Reflections on a Ravaged Century. Share This
Europe turns its back on Socrates, Locke, et al. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The first Western Enlightenment of the Greek fifth-century B.C. sought to explain natural phenomena through reason rather than superstition alone. Ethics were to be discussed in the realm of logic as well as religion. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Hating Jews, on racial as well as religious grounds, is as old as the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Later in Europe, pogroms and the Holocaust were the natural devolution of that elemental venom. Share This
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On all they’ve done to earn the name. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Make no apologies for the use of “Islamic fascism.” It is the perfect nomenclature for the agenda of radical Islam, for a variety of historical and scholarly reasons. That such usage also causes extreme embarrassment to both the Islamists themselves
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The Pope’s Remark Revisited by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers The Pope is under attack. Once again, riots, demonstrations, and “retaliations” have sparked throughout the Muslim world. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Despite their dreams of recapturing one or both houses of Congress this November, the Democrats seem determined to reprise their poor showings in 2002 and 2004. Share This
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Or, Boys will be Boys by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers If seeing Arab, Pakistani, or other “ethnic” Muslims menacingly wave their hands while lambasting the West is nothing strange, seeing homegrown, non-accented Western converts doing the same thing is. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In speeches leading up to the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, President Bush focused on the dangers of Islamic fascism and the efforts, both at home and abroad, to combat them. Share This
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by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers In 1944 F. A. Hayek wrote in The Road to Serfdom, “The number of dangerous mistakes we have made before and since the outbreak of the war because we do not understand the opponent with whom we are faced is appalling. Share This
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