Dictators and Democrats
Stick with principles–not personalities by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I don’t think many Americans would argue that the answer for the sometimes lethargic, elected Karzai government in Afghanistan should be a coup by a Pashtun warlord and his battle-hardened lieutenants.
Liberal Racism
The assault on skilled, independent, intelligent blacks by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers When Barack Obama accused Hillary Clinton of “playing the gender card,” the hypocrisy that typically defines our public discourse on race descended into the surreal.
Squaring Off: Part II
Hanson replies to criticisms of Ltc. Bateman by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I suppose “devil” is not as bad as “pervert” or “feces”
Squaring Off
Hanson replies to criticisms of Ltc. Bateman by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I used to have a great deal of respect for the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Please–Not Another Farm Bill
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The House this July passed another five-year, multi-billion-dollar farm support bill. The Senate now has its own version under discussion. And we can probably expect that the compromise bill that passes will be at least the $286 billion allotted by the House.
The Old Schell Game
by Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion A review of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger by Jonathan Schell (Metropolitan Books, 2007, 272 pp.) During the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s, Jonathan Schell became well known for his detailed arguments calling for global nuclear disarmament.
So Who’s Afraid of an Iranian Bomb?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services At first glance, it would seem a straightforward thing to stop a relatively weak but volatile Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. It would also seem to be something a concerned world community would be actively working to do.
Hardly Turkish Delight
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I thought (and wrote to that effect) that both the gratuitous and toothless Senate resolutions calling for the de facto trisection of Iraq, and condemnation of Turkey for the century-old Armenian holocaust were unnecessary barbs that would only inflame an already anti-American Turkey.
The Legacy of the Bush Administration?
by Victor Davis Hanson The American This article appears in the “Geopolitics” section of the recent issue of The American. By October, 15 months before his presidency would end, George Bush’s approval ratings still hovered around 30 percent.
At the Eye of the Storm in Baghdad
An interview with Col. Rick Gibbs. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online On a recent visit to Iraq, I was advised to speak with an American colonel at ground zero in the effort to secure Baghdad.
Congress’ New Role: Undermining U.S. Foreign Policy
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The president establishes American foreign policy and is commander in chief. At least that’s what the Constitution states. Then Congress oversees the president’s policies by either granting or withholding money to carry them out — in addition to approving treaties and authorizing war.
Nobel Nobel?
Al Gore’s evangelical liberalism reconsidered. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Al Gore embodies a type that usually turns up in high school or university faculties, what we can call the evangelical liberal.
Hope Yet for Iraq
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Iraq for most Americans is now a toxic subject — best either ignored or largely evoked to blame someone for something in the past.
Newsworthy Reconsidered: Paris Hilton or Colonel Sean McFarland?
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Which of these two do we Americans know anything about?
Newsworthy Reconsidered: Paris Hilton or Colonel Sean McFarland?
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Which of these two do we Americans know anything about?
Charge It, America!
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services President Bush’s current approval ratings are about 32 percent. Only one in four Americans approves of the Democratic-controlled Congress.
The Two Faces of Al Qaeda
by Raymond Ibrahim Chronicle for Higher Education When the September 11 attacks occurred, I was in Fresno, Calif., researching my M.A. thesis on the Battle of Yarmuk, one of the first yet little-known battles between Christendom and Islam, waged in 636 A.D.
Winning Ugly
Iraq doesn’t need to be a Kodak moment. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There is no need to review the now common judgment on the Iraqi war as a fiasco, quagmire, or “worst” something or other in American history.
The University Madhouse
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Have American academics lost their collective minds? This week, Columbia University allowed Iran’s loony President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be a lecturer on its campus.
Europe Whimpers
The showy compromise of free speech in Belgium by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers As the headquarters for the European Union, Brussels is the capital of the EUtopia that Europeans and blue-state Americans keep touting as the social-political order superior to that of the United States.