The Power of Will: Winning Still Matters
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The terrorists cannot win either a conventional or an asymmetrical war against the United States, should it bring its full array of assets to the struggle.
The Real Divide is Online in Elitist Minds
by Victor Davis Hanson San Francisco Chronicle Are things really as ghastly as they appear this election year? President Bush is derided as a liar, brain-dead and a coward, not just by fringe groups but by prominent members of the Democratic establishment. Major intellectuals and artists lament that John Kerry won all three debates by […]
Country at a Crossroads
November 2 will say a lot about the American people, and our future by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine Had Lincoln lost the 1864 vote, a victorious General McClellan would have settled for an American continent divided, with slavery intact. Without Woodrow Wilson’s reelection in 1916 — opposed by the isolationists — Western Europe […]
What Would Patton Say About the Present War?
by Victor Davis Hanson Imprimis The following text is adapted from a transcript of a lecture delivered on July 23, 2004, on board the MS Heidelberg during a Hillsdale College cruise on the Rhine and Moselle rivers. A shorter version of this informal speech was published recently in Imprimis.
Kerry’s Dilemma
Or, how to lose and election by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There is a good chance that no matter what Kerry says or does in the final two weeks of this election — barring some major catastrophe in Iraq, a presidential gaffe, or massive voting irregularity — he will lose.
Deconstructing Kerry’s Case Against President Bush: Part Two
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The Kerry case against the President’s invasion of Iraq is built on four components: the President misled the nation about WMDs and ties to al Qaeda; he failed to plan adequately for the aftermath of combat; he failed to bring our allies on board; and he diverted resources from […]
Why Do They Hate Us?
by Victor Davis Hanson A shorter version of this review appears in the current issue of National Review. Understanding Anti-Americanism: Its Origins and Impact at Home and Abroad. by Paul Hollander, editor (Ivan R. Dee, 388 $28.95)
Our Primordial World
Pride and Envy are what make this war go ’round. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Throughout the last two years of war, we have confronted a variety of what we thought were strange occurrences: the conquest of Iraq in a mere three weeks, the subsequent Iraqis’ looting of their own infrastructure, the counterinsurgency […]
The Therapeutic Choice
A war for our lives, or a nuisance to our lifestyle? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Americans are presented with a choice in this election rare in our history. This is not 1952, when Democrats and Republicans did not differ too much on the need to stay in Korea, or even 1968 when […]
Deconstructing Kerry’s Case Against President Bush: Part One
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Now that we’ve heard in two debates the Kerry-Edwards case against President Bush, we should look critically at the Democrats’ position.
The Friday Night Fight
“I Have A Plan”–on and on and on… by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers John Kerry proved tonight that he is a steady, glib, and adept debater who offers a fare of wonkish, comprehensive answers ad nauseam that can awe an off-guard opponent buried beneath facts, Clinton-like instant recall, and classical Ciceronian rhetorical skills. Indeed, we saw all […]
Alexander the Greatest
by Victor Davis Hanson The Times Literary Supplement A review of: Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past by Paul Cartledge (341 pp., Macmillan. £18.99) Alexander: Destiny and Myth by Claude Mossé (244 pp., Edinburgh University Press. £49.99.) Alexander the Conqueror: The Epic Story of the Warrior Kingby Laura Foreman (213 pp., Da Capo. £19.99.) […]
Sizing Up Iraq
Things are coming to a head in the Middle East. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online From the various insurgencies of the Peloponnesian War to the British victory over Communist guerrillas in Malaya, there remain constants across 2,500 years of time and space that presage victory or defeat.
A Shiv in the Back
How politicized college courses mangle education. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers A review of Ben Shapiro’s Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth.
The Perfect Storm of Hating Bush: Part IV
by Victor Davis Hanson This series written for Private Papers will appear in four parts. Part Four Hating Bush, cultural relativism and the war against the terrorists If the new hatred of George Bush is the natural expression of an elite that blurs truth and fiction, word and deed, then anger at a powerful America itself also […]
The Perfect Storm of Hating Bush: Part III
by Victor Davis Hanson This series written for Private Papers will appear in four parts. Part Three The wages of postmodernism, or when facts do not exist, we can invent our own reality Remember the preexisting landscape of postmodern thinking of the last two decades that has dominated the intelligentsia, specifically the Foucauldian notion that there […]
Kerry, Captive
An anatomy of flip-flopping. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There is a logic to Senator Kerry’s flip-flopping that transcends his political opportunism: He is simply a captive of the pulse of the battlefield, without any steady vision or historical sense that might put the carnage of the day into some larger tactical, strategic, or […]
The Perfect Storm of Hating Bush: Part II
by Victor Davis Hanson This is the second of four parts written for Private Papers. Part Two Why the new hysterical hatred? There are a variety of ways to account for this unhinged hatred detailed in “The new candor about killing George Bush.”
Spread Democracy
What to ask John Kerry by Victor Davis Hanson New York Times The New York Times asked a few leading commentators to pose questions to President Bush and Senator Kerry at the first debate on September 30th, 2004.
The Perfect Storm of Hating Bush: Part I
by Victor Davis Hanson This series written for Private Papers will appear in four parts. Part One The new candor about killing George Bush The American Left has become increasingly hysterical since September 11th.