War and the Fallacies of Our Critics
Interview by Bernard Chapin FrontPageMagazine.com Bernard Chapin is a writer and school psychologist living in Chicago. His latest book concerns the implosion of a school he worked at and loved: Escape from Gangsta Island: A School’s Progressive Decline.
Faith and Altruism: The Cases of Pope Benedict and Osama bin Laden
by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers After being accused of having a special vendetta against Muslims, Pope Benedict XVI is back in the spotlight for offending Jews, Protestants, and the Orthodox.
The Many Enemies of George Bush
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services George Bush is not a very popular fellow.
Don’t Bomb, Bomb Iran
For now, we should avoid smoking Tehran. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There’s been ever more talk on Iran. President Bush — worried about both Americans being killed by Iranian mines in Iraq, and Tehran’s progress toward uranium enrichment — is ratcheting up the rhetoric.
War on Campus?
Interview with Victor Davis Hanson MindingTheCampus.com John Leo, Editor of MindingTheCampus.com, hosts Victor Davis Hanson to discuss his most recent article from the summer issue of City Journal, “Why Study War?”. Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a City Journal Contributing Editor.
Back to School Blues
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Last week I went shopping in our small rural hometown, where my family has attended the same public schools since 1896. Without exception, all six generations of us — whether farmers, housewives, day laborers, business people, writers, lawyers or educators — were given a good, competitive K-12 education.
Waning Support for Suicide-Attacks in the Muslim World?
by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers A recent poll released by the Pew Research Center indicates that, among other things, support for suicide-attacks — or, what are known in Islamic terminology as “martyrdom operations” — is on the decline in the Islamic world.
Why Study War?
Military history teaches us about honor, sacrifice, and the inevitability of conflict. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal (Summer 2007) Try explaining to a college student that Tet was an American military victory. You’ll provoke not a counterargument — let alone an assent — but a blank stare: Who or what was Tet?
No More Anonymous, Please!
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The New Republic magazine recently ran into big trouble for publishing a first-person account of military savagery in Iraq. The author, Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, used the pseudonym “Scott Thomas” to write of the debasement of war that he claims he saw in the cauldron of Iraq.
The Burdens of General Petraeus
No simple mission. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I. Our Rules / Their Rules Several governments have defeated Islamic insurgencies, but usually only after about ten years, and adopting policies of summary executions and carpet bombing or shelling.
American Culture: The Truth About 40 Years in the Movies
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers As New York Times critic A.O. Scott wrote recently, forty years ago this summer the movie that changed the movies premiered.
The Dangers of Education
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Presidential aspirant Mike Gravel recently opined on the advantages of having gays in the military: “…the Spartans trained their people to be homosexuals because they were better fighters.”
Anglo-American Alliance?
“The British have basically been defeated in the South.” by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner We’ve come a long way from the 2003 British lectures about American obtrusive Ray-Bans and Kevlar losing what British soft hats and smiles had won.
Surging Politics
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Critics of the U.S. troop “surge” in Iraq, called for by President George Bush in January, early on cited American losses and then announced the plan’s failure. Supporters, on the other hand, have seen progress from new tactics (which, many argue, should have been adopted far earlier).
Post-Surge Dialectics
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The larger question that will await General Petraeus is not just the tempo of the surge per se — after all, given the efficacy of the U.S. military it can pretty much do what it wishes if it is willing to invest sufficient amounts of time, material, and manpower, […]
Flying Imams: John Doe Provision in Perspective
by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers As a 6’3”, 250-pound weightlifter of Middle Eastern descent, who sometimes wears a full beard, seldom wears a (perfunctory) smile, and who’s last name is “Ibrahim” — a name that sometimes appears in rather “unflattering” headlines, such as the recent attacks in Glasgow — I don’t mind telling you that, […]
Get a Life, Middle East
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Radical Islamists love to scream about the “decadent” West. Everything from our operas to our attitudes about women outrage these loud pious critics.
Popularity Contest
Why they hate us, and like, us. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The latest Pew poll of June 2007 purports to offer a comprehensive survey of what the world thinks of the United States.
Armies for Democracy–Past, Present, and Future
Has a grand tradition of “military liberalism” come to a dead end in Iraq? by Victor Davis Hanson American Spectator I. Distrusting the Military The complex and somewhat ill-defined relationship between the military establishment and constitutional government is a subject that has made many Americans uncomfortable, especially in the modern era when the United States […]
Back to the Future in the Middle East
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services If Gen. David Petraeus can’t stabilize Iraq by autumn — or if Americans decide to pull out of Iraq before he gets a fair chance — expect far worse chaos eventually to follow.