Moving On
Rhetoric at war with reality. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Recently George Bush met hostile crowds and a critical press during a 34-nation Summit of the Americas.
Multiculturalism and Its Discontents
by Bruce S. Thornton The New Individualist This copyrighted article first appeared in the July 2005 issue of The New Individualist [http://www.objectivistcenter.org/navigator/index.asp], and is reprinted by permission.
Reconsidering Farm Policy
Why the government should stop subsidizing agri-business. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The European Union says it’s now considering reducing agricultural subsidies for farmers (if the United States does as well), and our government, to its credit, is calling the E.U.’s bluff. The U.S. has proposed cutting farm subsidies here by 60 percent […]
Old is “New” Warfare
Iraq conflict shares uncanny likenesses with the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson National Post Listen to what the talking heads are saying, and it’s easy to believe that we have entered an entirely new era of armed conflict.
The Real Global Virus
The plague of Islamism keeps on spreading. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Either the jihadists really are crazy or they apparently think that they have a shot at destabilizing, or at least winning concessions from, the United States, Europe, India, and Russia all at once.
If the Problem Is Muslim Terror, Then What?
We need to get serious about keeping our enemies out. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal In September, federal prosecutors charged illegal alien Mahmoud Maawad, 29, with wire fraud and fraudulent use of a Social Security number.
Symposium on Iraq
Why our new idealism is enlightened Jacksonianism. by Victor Davis Hanson Commentary Magazine According to opinion polls, most Americans are now critical of the President’s foreign policy. They are uncertain not merely over the daily fare of explosions in Iraq.
Our Damocles’ Sword
Godless materialism menaces the fate of the West. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The past week Muslim mobs besieged Christians in Egypt, defacing six churches and threatening publicly the Coptic Church’s highest cleric.
Moralizing in Their Sleep
Why U.S. critics turn a blind eye to atrocities by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services To paraphrase the Ancient Greeks, it is easy to be moral in your sleep. Abstract ethics or soapbox lectures demanding superhuman perfection mean little without deeds.
2,000 Dead, in Context
by Victor Davis Hanson New York Times As the aggregate number of American military fatalities in Iraq has crept up over the past 13 months — from 1,000 to 1,500 dead, and now to 2,000 — public support for the war has commensurately declined.
Crossing the Rubicon
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For good or evil, George W. Bush will have to cross the Rubicon on judicial nominations, politicized indictments, Iraq, the greater Middle East, and the constant frenzy of the Howard Dean wing of the Democratic party — and now march on his various adversaries as never before.
The Folly of Apology
Americans need to muster the necessary grit to win. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The stories about the video of US troops burning the bodies of dead Taliban are disgusting––but not because of anything our troops may have done to the corpses of fanatical murderers.
What I Have Seen
Wisdom from a higher-ed career by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine The lament about our failed schools and universities is by now familiar. From the left, the complaint is that they are underfunded, even ignored by a shortsighted and heartless public.
Getting the Military’s Record Straight
Critics miss the big picture on military accomplishments. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Last week’s approval of the Iraqi constitution saw 10 million people freely vote in the Arab world’s first democracy. The jihadists cannot be entirely defeated without such a political solution. Yet Iraq’s democratic voters would never even have had an […]
Battles Change, Wars Don’t
From ancient Greece to modern Iraq, history shows us that fear, honor and self-interest drive hostilities between the states. by Victor Davis Hanson Los Angeles Times Modernists like to believe that we have entered an entirely new era of armed conflict. To some military thinkers, it’s the primordial nature of the terrorists’ beheadings, suicide bombings […]
With a Whimper
How the violence in Iraq will end. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Western media was relatively quiet about the quite amazing news from the recent trifecta in Iraq: very little violence on election day, Sunni participation, and approval of the constitution. Those who forecasted that either the Sunnis would boycott, or that […]
The Season of Our Discontent
Party politics seems only to frustrate the citizenry. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Americans — never more affluent or privileged — are in a gloomy mood.
An American “Debacle”?
More unjustified negativity on the war in Iraq. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In a recent Los Angeles Times op-ed entitled “American Debacle” Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national-security adviser to President Carter, begins with:
An Honest Missive
Zawahiri boasts strategy for “victory of Islam.” by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The website of the Director of National Intelligence just published a letterfrom Al Qaeda’s number two leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head-terrorist in Iraq.
The First Clash of Civilization
by Victor Davis Hanson Times Literary Supplement Persian Fire: The first world empire and the battle for the West by Tom Holland (Little, Brown: 418pp.)