The Shifting Debate over Illegal Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When I wrote Mexifornia more than three years ago, much of the criticism came from the academic and open-borders left. The memoir was considered insensitive in our politically correct age for complaining that it was not wise or moral that millions were here illegally from Mexico.
Total Silence
Conquest reveals Western “traitors to the human mind.” by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers I’ve been reading one of the great works of recent history, Robert Conquest’s Reflections on a Ravaged Century.
Traitors to the Enlightenment
Europe turns its back on Socrates, Locke, et al. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The first Western Enlightenment of the Greek fifth-century B.C. sought to explain natural phenomena through reason rather than superstition alone. Ethics were to be discussed in the realm of logic as well as religion.
The New Anti-Semitism
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Hating Jews, on racial as well as religious grounds, is as old as the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Later in Europe, pogroms and the Holocaust were the natural devolution of that elemental venom.
Islamic Fascism 101
On all they’ve done to earn the name. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Make no apologies for the use of “Islamic fascism.” It is the perfect nomenclature for the agenda of radical Islam, for a variety of historical and scholarly reasons. That such usage also causes extreme embarrassment to both the Islamists themselves […]
Warning: Quote History at Your Own Risk
The Pope’s Remark Revisited by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers The Pope is under attack. Once again, riots, demonstrations, and “retaliations” have sparked throughout the Muslim world.
Democratic Hares: No Match for Steady Republican Policy
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Despite their dreams of recapturing one or both houses of Congress this November, the Democrats seem determined to reprise their poor showings in 2002 and 2004.
Islam’s Appeal
Or, Boys will be Boys by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers If seeing Arab, Pakistani, or other “ethnic” Muslims menacingly wave their hands while lambasting the West is nothing strange, seeing homegrown, non-accented Western converts doing the same thing is.
Osama’s 9/11 Anniversary
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In speeches leading up to the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, President Bush focused on the dangers of Islamic fascism and the efforts, both at home and abroad, to combat them.
Dearest Illusions and Dangerous Mistakes
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers In 1944 F. A. Hayek wrote in The Road to Serfdom, “The number of dangerous mistakes we have made before and since the outbreak of the war because we do not understand the opponent with whom we are faced is appalling.
Those Saudi Students
It’s not irrational to be wary of this deal. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online On the fifth-year anniversary of September 11, 15,000 Saudi Arabian students are supposedly on their way to the United States. The State Department, and cash-hungry universities eager for premium out-of-state tuition payments, are understandably delighted at the return of […]
The Path to 9/11–A Postmortem
by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics Americans who watched ABC’s The Path to 9/11 saw a well-crafted dramatic interpretation of what rendered the United States, both under the Clinton and Bush administrations, vulnerable to terrorist attack. Perhaps the producers were conservative, but no more so than most of their Hollywood counterparts are liberal — and not […]
Where the Illiberal Is in Liberalism
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The whining of Democrats and ex-Clintonistas about the “docudrama” The Path to 9/11 has given us all another example of liberal mendacity and hypocrisy.
Challenge upon Challenge
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine There is a new sort of war in the Middle East, brought on by the need to engage terrorists on their ground — and by the terrorists’ savvy new response, which often nullifies Western advantage.
It’s Fascism–and It’s Islamic
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services George Bush recently declared that we are at war with “Islamic fascism.” Muslim-American groups were quick to express furor at the expression. Middle Eastern autocracies complained that it was provocative and insensitive.
Is the Western Way of War Dead?
Not yet, but it may soon be irrelevant. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is now becoming trite to write of the American military “failure” in Iraq. But recently this purported setback has been lumped together with the Israeli problems in southern Lebanon to suggest an end to the long dominance of the […]
Free at Last
by Victor Davis Hanson Commentary Magazine A review of The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraqby Fouad Ajami (Free Press, 400 pp)
Messy Democracy Still the Best Course
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The Palestinian prime minister, Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh, is shocked. He claims that without his government’s knowledge, the until-now unknown terrorist group Holy Jihad Brigades kidnapped two Western journalists (who have since been released) in Gaza.
The Waiting Game
Do we really need further convincing of the threat we face? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Hezbollah’s black-clad legions goose-step and stiff-arm salute in parade, apparently eager to convey both the zeal and militarism of their religious fascism.
Relearning Lessons in the War on Terror
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services From the recent Israel-Hezbollah war in southern Lebanon to the jihadists in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle to the repeated efforts by Islamists across the globe to trump Sept. 11, what old lessons about terrorism are we in the West finding ourselves having to relearn?