2010

Obama’s Teachable Mosque Moment

Interview by Jamie Glazov FrontPage Magazine Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern. Share This

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We Are Not Greece

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Decline is a Choice As the summer winds down, there is more and more talk of decline in the air. Share This

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Iraq Through the Looking Glass

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Most Americans will support President Obama’s call for patience in Afghanistan and his policy of continuing the long-planned drawdown in Iraq. Share This

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America–Compared to What?

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media While America debates whether a “bridge-building” Imam Rauf should erect his $100-million, 13-story outreach “Islamic complex” (is the name “Cordoba House” now officially to be dropped? And if so, could Mr. Rauf or the media explain why?) next to Ground Zero, Islam seems to be at war with most

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The Sources of American Anger

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Behind the anger over the Arizona immigration mess, the Ground Zero mosque, the economy, and the new directions in foreign policy are some recurring general themes that reverberate in each particular new controversy. Share This

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The Dangerous Dog Days of Summer

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Historian Barbara Tuchman characterized the events leading up to World War I as the “Guns of August.” Share This

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With a Whimper or a Bang–or Not at All?

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Are We Tottering? Societies can sometimes implode abruptly, like the Mycenaeans from mysterious causes, the Aztecs before Cortés, or the Zulu nation in 1879 — or gradually and insidiously, such as Rome in the latter fifth century BC or Britain between 1946 and 1960. Share This

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The Allawi Dance

The Iraqi minister’s new book quivers and vacillate on Islamic culture. by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East Quarterly A review of The Crisis of Islamic Civilization by Ali A. Allawi (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. 304 pp.). Share This

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‘Islam Idiots’?

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner One might understand why Newsweek recently sold for a dollar and apparently went the way of Harper’s from David A. Graham’s “The Islam Idiots.” Share This

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