The Noose Tightens
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services His new Middle East neighborhood cannot make Syria’s dictator Bashar Assad very happy. Turkey is democratic to his north. A million Arabs vote in Israel to the south. Palestinians are near civil war to establish democratic rule — their own terrorists more a threat to the newly elected […]
The Civilization of Dhimmitude
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers A review of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, by Bat Ye’or. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 384 pages, $23.95
Does Ward Churchill Even Exist?
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Dr., Native American, original artist, serious scholar, combat veteran, highly recruited and sought-after academic, ex-Weatherman mentor: How many — if any — of these seven faces of our real-life Dr. Lao are true?
America’s New Discontents
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Sometime in the 1960s there arose a new home-grown distrust of the United States, followed by an erosion of faith in the values of the West. Perhaps the culprit was the fiasco in Vietnam or the rise of a trendy multiculturalism that followed from it.
Democracy Is Now the Realistic Policy
by Victor Davis Hanson The American Enterprise “The policy of the United States is to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world…. All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore […]
“Little Eichmanns” and “Digital Brownshirts”
Deconstructing the Hitlerian slur by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The effort to remove fascists in the Middle East and jump-start democracy, for all its ups and downs, has been opposed not just by principled critics who bristled at tactics and strategy, but also by peculiarly vehement cynics here and abroad — whose disgust […]
A World Gone By
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services America was created by rural people. Perhaps 95 percent of its first citizens were farmers when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Now, despite all the talk of a “rural renaissance,” less than 1 percent are—even as we are awash in food and next year will become […]
Honor and the British Navy
by Victor Davis Hanson Los Angeles Times The British Seaborne Empire by Jeremy Black (Yale University Press: 420 pp.) To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World by Arthur Herman (HarperCollins: 648 pp.)
In The Way of Political Freedom
Uncommon advocates and adversaries in an undecided struggle by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Those of us who enjoy political freedom often take it for granted, considering it a sort of natural resource that can be simply handed over to those peoples who lack it.
A Look Back: Turning Points Since September 11
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I know that things are going pretty well in America’s efforts in the Middle East when Fareed Zakaria, who was a sharp critic over the last two years, now assures us that events are working out in Iraq — just about, he tells us, like he saw all along.
Anti Anti-Americanism
by Victor Davis Hanson American Enterprise Online An entire industry has arisen to account for the recent anti-Americanism. In the case of the Europeans, the end of the Cold War lessened the need for subsidized American protection, emboldening them to caricature Americans as fat and materialistic.
‘Teachable Moments’
But who will teach the teachers? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine It recently came to light that University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill had slandered some of the 9/11 victims as “Little Eichmanns,” who may well have deserved punishment for their participation in what went on “in the sterile sanctuary of the twin […]
Defending the Greeks
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers This talk was presented February 28, 2005 at California State University, Sacramento at a dinner hosted by the Tsakopolous Hellenic Foundation in honor of California State Senator Nicholas C. Petris
Blood for Oil?: No Oil Money for Bloody Terrorists
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Even in the face of spreading reform in the Middle East, Americans remain divided over the wisdom of removing Saddam Hussein and then staying on to foster democracy in Iraq. But petroleum should not be part of that controversy. Nevertheless, the most persistent smear of this war has […]
Eurospeak: Sorting Out The Teenage Sass
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Bush supposedly charmed the Europeans, and now they purportedly don’t hate us any more.
FAQ from the Blogosphere: An Interview with Victor Hanson
Private Papers More than three years after September 11 and more than a year and a half after liberation of Iraq, how do you see the progress of the war on terror?
In Search of Solutions: Americans are Tired of Bickering
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Democrats call for President Bush to use his conservative majorities to find common solutions to perennial problems that might find resonance with Americans tired of partisan bickering. There are plenty of places to start on a variety of different issues.
Soft Power, Hard Reality
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers A shorter version of this appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Tuesday 22, 2005.
Merchants of Despair
Sort of for the war, sort of… by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Much of the recent domestic critique of American efforts in the Middle East has long roots in our own past — and little to do with the historic developments on the ground in Iraq
Sunny California Caught by Gathering Storm
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services California’s weather is nearly ideal. The soil is the nation’s richest. There is a 1,000-mile coastline and endowments of fishing, timber, petroleum and water. In less than a century, our ancestors created Hollywood and Silicon Valley, as well as booming agribusiness, tourism and trade.