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.”
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.
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.).
‘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.”
Top Muslims Condemn Ground Zero Mosque as a ‘Zionist Conspiracy’
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media In a recent article, I argued that the Ground Zero mosque is counterproductive to Islam.
Please, No More Teachable Moments
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The president of the United States has it hard enough without needlessly wading into, and fanning, local controversies.
The Enigma of Our Age: From Arizona to Ground Zero
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The recent controversies over the Ground Zero mosque and Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law are windows into our collective souls. Think of the paradoxes.
The Cynical Brilliance of Imam Rauf
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Almost everything about the proposed Ground Zero mosque was cynically brilliant.
Race on the Brain
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The postmortem of the Sherrod affair will prove it to have been a net negative for the Obama administration — and not just because of its herky-jerky reaction to various reported and then re-reported statements.
Democratic Leadership?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Not Quite the Clinton Solution In all the talk about returning to the Clinton income-tax tables, I have been confused on one small point: As I remember the Gingrich-Clinton years, the tax raises were followed by spending freezes and caps, and some time later we had balanced budgets, […]
Teachable Moments
Why we know socialism works for the few, not the many. by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Moveable Feast: From Marbella to Martha’s Vineyard Is not there some old Harry Truman Democrat still around to advise the new Democratic aristocracy to live it down a bit in these tough times?
The Weeping, Wailing, and Gnashing of Teeth
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Posse on the Horizon The usual rush to the exits from a sinking administration is now ongoing.
Everyone a Bigot?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Anti-Hispanic, anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-black — it is hard to keep track of all the recent allegations of bigotry.
Ground Zero for Mosque Resistance
by Karen Lugo Redcounty.com There is still time — and there are many reasons — to stop the Ground Zero Mosque. The location of a mega-mosque so close to Ground Zero has focused critical attention on the issue of mosque placements all across the United States.
Obama: Fighting the Yuppie Factor
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In October 1987, Newsweek ran a cover story on would-be presidential candidate George H. W. Bush with the blaring headline “Fighting the Wimp Factor.”
Dershowitz vs. Hanson: On the Anti-Defamation League and the Ground Zero Mosque
Frontpagemag.com [Editor’s note: Alan Dershowitz submitted an article to Frontpagemag.com criticizing the Anti-Defamation League’s opposition to the plans for a mosque to be built at Ground Zero. We decided to run the piece with a rebuttal by Victor Davis Hanson. An extra round between the two follows.]
Ground Zero Mosque
Why it is counterproductive to the Islamist cause. by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media While vexing to many, the mega mosque set to be built two blocks from Ground Zero has produced one interesting but unintended consequence: like the 9/11 strikes a decade before it, the “9/11 mosque” is also creating a stir, is making people think and […]
A Rather Angry America
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Unemployment is still high, growth low, deficits huge. States are cutting out everything from streetlights to paving. Public pensions are exploding everywhere.
Illogical Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Some 11 million to 15 million illegal aliens are now residing in America, most after crossing into America unlawfully.
Obama: Not the Great Stone Face
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote an allegory about a series of small-town would-be heroes who the gullible public claimed resembled the Great Stone Face on the side of a New Hampshire mountain.