Appeasement 101
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services It is easy to damn the 1930s appeasers of Hitler — such as Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain in England and Edouard Daladier in France — given what the Nazis ultimately did when unleashed. But history demands not merely recognizing the truth post facto, but also trying to […]
What Will Europe Really Do?
by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics Nothing is quite as surreal as the Islamic world’s fury at the liberal and innocuous Danes. How could anyone wish to burn their embassies and kill their citizens, when they have always offered all the politically correct, multicultural platitudes and welcomed in any and all from the Middle […]
A European Awakening Against Islamic Fascism?
by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics Over the last four years Americans have played a sort of parlor game wondering when — or if — the Europeans might awake to the danger of Islamic fascism and choose a more muscular role in the war on terrorism.
Why No Nukes for Iran?
The rules of the game. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online How many times have we heard the following whining and yet received no specific answers from our leaders?
Sexual Harassment or Censorship?
Vague language in Executive Order 927 leaves one to wonder who might harass whom. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Even as the ACLU frets over the privacy of people chatting with Al Qaeda on their cell phones or googling bomb-making instructions on public library computers, a more serious threat to civil liberties and personal […]
Fantasy and Worse from the Los Angeles Times
by Bruce S. Thornton and Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers [Editor’s Note: In the Sunday February 5, 2006 edition of the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Fresno-based Times reporter Mark Arax published an essay purportedly about how acrimony over 9/11 issues, Iraq, and the war on terror has divided his community “The Valley’s Not So Civil War”. In fact, the piece […]
Bad Taste and Freedom
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Sparks sure fly when the premodern world of religious piety and the postmodern world of Monty Python collide. Middle Eastern Muslims have demonstrated, threatened, boycotted and burned in their fury over European newspapers republishing months-old distasteful cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Losing Civilization
Are we going to tolerate the downfall of Western ideals? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The great wealth and leisure created by modern technology have confused some in the modern age into thinking that history is linear.
The Indictment of the West
by Bruce S. Thornton The New Individualist {This copyrighted article first appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of The New Individualist and is reprinted by permission.}
What History Says About the Iraq War
by Victor Davis Hanson The American Enterprise Magazine Why did the successful war in Iraq to replace Saddam Hussein with a democracy lose the majority support of the American public?
With Hamas Victory Comes Clarity
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Unexpected. Terrible. Inevitable. Everyone has a particular take on the dramatic Palestinian election victory of Hamas.
Three Pillars of Wisdom
Finding our footing where lunacy looms large. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Public relations between the so-called West and the Islamic Middle East have reached a level of abject absurdity.
Deconstructing Bin Laden
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We don’t know whether the latest and much-discussed Osama bin Laden tape was recorded recently. But the harangue is still a valuable reflection of the current al Qaeda hierarchy that broadcast it to the world.
Amoral Euphemism
Is “outsourcing” multilateralism? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Senator John Kerry has recently opined, “Why hasn’t Osama Bin Laden been captured or killed, and how will he be destroyed before he next appears on tape to spread his disgusting message?”
The Not-So-Mad Mind of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services “The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land. As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map.”
Denial of the Truth
Is UCLAProfs end academic freedom or McCarthyism? by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The politicizing of the American university is a fact.
Truce or Taqiyyah
The Koran, Islamic tradition and al Qaeda’s leadership shed light on bin Laden’s offer. by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers Osama bin Laden is apparently certain that the vast majority of Americans, including their policy-makers, are ignorant of al-Qaeda’s goals and strategies.
Making Sense of Nonsense
Understanding what we’re in. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The United States is engaged in the most radical and dangerous gambit in the Middle East since the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Hooked on Oil
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services For the foreseeable future, petroleum will power the global economy. There is far too little of it to go around — especially now that 2 billion Chinese and Indians are in the market. And the resulting scramble for oil warps all reason and common sense.
Bad Science
“Therapism” offers an unsavory salve for emotional trauma. by Bruce S. Thornton Commentary A review of One Nation Under Therapy. How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance by Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel (St. Martin’s Press, 310pp, $23.95).