The New Wannabe Ottomans
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services A Turkish Islamic group — the “Humanitarian Relief Foundation,” often associated by Western intelligence agencies with terrorist sponsorship — orchestrated the recent Gaza flotilla.
Raising Cain over Israel
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Turkish Question Turkey thought that the Gaza flotilla would be yet another clever way of confronting Israel: They would hype the hoped-for “overreaction,” then posture as regional defender of the faith to the world’s outraged Muslims.
Thomas, Turkey, and the Liberation of Israel
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is hard to become much more influential than the doyen of the White House press corps, who is given a ceremonial front-rows seat at press briefings and press conferences.
Beyond the Scopes Trial?
Singham’s new book misses the Christian foundation of law and much more. by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review God vs. Darwin: The War between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom by Mano Singham (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
What Did You Say About Muhammad?
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Which is more likely to elicit an irate Muslim response: 1) public cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, or 2) public proclamations that Muhammad was a bisexual, sometime transvestite and necrophile, who enjoyed sucking on the tongues of children, commanded a woman to “breastfeed” an adult man, and advised believers […]
Katrinization
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner There has been a lot of noise about the oil plume and the proper responsibility of government, but the real lesson is that, during Bush’s two terms, the media began to hold presidents culpable for many things that used to be attributed to tragedy, and also for things that […]
Twin Disasters
The strange attitude of the administration to immigration and debt. by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The Wages of Multiculturalism How strange that the president of Mexico, while a guest on the lawn of the White House, would attack the laws of a U.S. state, while his own country’s immigration laws and policies in relation […]
Our 1979
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Year That Was It has been sort of a topos to evoke the specter of 1979. I’ve done it repeatedly, as have other observers.
America 101 with Dean Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media America Is Now a Campus, and Obama Is Our Dean This is the strangest presidency I have seen in my lifetime.
History Down the Danube
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Nuremberg: Triumph of Will A German remarked on our Tour 2010 that he found it odd that, given all the graffiti one sees, there is never any defacement on the great stone stage at Nuremberg (patterned by Albert Speer after the Pergamon altar) that is immortalized in so many […]
Reflections on Small Town America
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Kingsburg, California, is a sort of small town that modernism forgot, at least by the measure of the usual landscapes of the Central Valley.
Marinestan
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services HBO’s 10-part series on the Pacific campaign of World War II just ended. That story of island-hopping was mostly about how the old breed of U.S. Marines fought diehard Japanese infantrymen face-to-face in places like Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Guam and Okinawa.
The Art of Seaborne Humiliation
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A tiny flotilla of “peace ships” sets out to run an Israeli blockade of the Gaza coast.
Death of the Postmodernist Dream
Obama’s dream of a new world order has died a quiet death. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In just a few months the brave new dream world as we knew it has died — but with a whimper, not a bang.
What Our Media Taught Me
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I’ve been over here in Europe for about ten days, getting a different perspective on our illustrious media and how it is handling the various Obama “troubles.”
History Returns to Europe
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Vienna — Walk the beautiful streets in Munich, Strasbourg, and Vienna, and you can see why Europeans thought in the last decades that they had reached the end of history.
Our Chief Confessor
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The first duty of national leaders is to worry about the self-interest of their own countries; utopian internationalism can come later.
The Turkish Government: Global Arbiter of Ethnic Violence?
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The virulent worldwide reaction to Israeli’s handling of the Gaza flotilla has been quite instructive.
The Technocrats’ New Clothes
Masters of the Universe don’t looks so omnipotent. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the last year, many of the dreams of an emerging international elite have imploded — and this, in a new century that was to usher in a regime of global liberal ecumenism.
The New Old German Problem
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Reflections on Germany Munich — I’ve been walking the last two days through Munich. Much of the city core was bombed out by the allies by spring 1945. Yet today there is little evidence of such destruction.