The Fall
A bankrupt generation is fading away. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Dan Rather’s initial, furious street-side defense of an amateurish forgery — smug, huffy, self-righteous — brings to mind one of those bad movies about the Paris barricades, especially the grainy, black-and-white shots of powdered and wigged aristocrats on their way to the […]
A Futile Foreign Policy
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine This essay appeared in the September 7, 2004 National Review Magazine. John Kerry is worried about his record of support for gay unions, abortion-on-demand, and other hot-button liberal causes that rile moderate swing voters outside of New England.
See Ya, Iraq?
Leaving now would be a disaster. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online “War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.” — Georges Clemenceau
Our Moral Quagmire
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Recently there was a demonstration not far from my home in central California. A number of illegal aliens were marching to demand the right to obtain California driver’s licenses. Their shrill advocates on television claimed that illegal residents of the state were willing to put up with demeaning questions […]
The Other Olympics
Why so little anti-Americanism? by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Well apart from the obvious lessons of the recent Olympic games that the amazing Greeks really did pull it off at the eleventh hour without major terrorist incidents, there was another story that remained largely ignored.
Who Whole World Is Watching
Three years of terrorism since September 11. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Chechen Islamicists burn up Russian airliners and shoot schoolgirls — and say they are victims, deprived of the chance for their own autonomous theocracy.
The Muslim Masses Know Otherwise
Why Islamic “moderates” and Western apologists create a costly smokescreen. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The brutal slaughter of children in Russia is yet another wake-up call we are not heeding.
George Bush, Our Uncommon Hedgehog
The advantages of “one big” idea. by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers The greatest criticism of George Bush comes from the artistic and intellectual world. Alfred A. Knopf just published a novel by a prize-winning author about killing the President. The same theme of assassination is the stuff of off-Broadway comedies and stand-up comics.
Our Terminator: Will He End Decades of Squander in Desperate California?
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Only Arnold Schwarzenegger could get away with praising Richard Nixon and repeating the line “girlie-men” in a thick Germanic accent—and in prime time at a national convention.
Brace Yourself
The months ahead will be momentous. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The summer and fall have been and will be momentous: national political conventions, elections slated in Afghanistan and here at home, the Olympics, high gas prices, and near cultural hysteria, whether measured by Fahrenheit 9/11 or the Swift-boat ads. But brace yourself — this […]
The Fog of Battle
What comes around, goes… by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Even in daytime fighters do not perceive anything; indeed, nobody knows anything more than what is going on right around himself. So the fifth-century B.C. military historian Thucydides commented on the confusion of battle on the heights above Syracuse (413 B.C.), and, indirectly, on […]
Four Months in Vietnam
Or how to misdirect public attention. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Everyone knows magicians use misdirection to make their illusions work. While one hand distracts us the other is pulling the egg or coin from its hiding place.
Welcome Back, Europe
Reentering history’s arena. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The scheduled partial U.S. troop withdrawals from Europe were long overdue; some of us had become shrill and hoarse in calling for them over the past few years.
Challenging Darwinian Fundamentalism
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Uncommon Dissent. Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing, ed. William A. Dembski (ISI Books)
On Loathing Bush
It’s not about what he does. by Victor Davis Hanson For now Americans seem to be split 50-50 over the reelection of George W. Bush. Such a hotly contested election is hardly new. We saw races just as close in 1960, 1968, and 1976.
If the Dead Could Talk
They’d teach us a thing or two about war. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The last two weeks I have been following the route of the American Army’s drive from Normandy into Germany in 1944-5.
A Return to Childhood: The New Immaturity
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I would never have imagined that journalists, academics, actors, artists, and the intelligentsia in general would have so opposed the end of dictatorship and promotion of democracy abroad.
Embedded and Elitist Left
The Long March through Schools of Journalism by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers If you want a good example of the “long march through the institutions” undertaken by sixties leftists after they left school, look no further than the career of Orville Schell, dean of Berkeley’s School of Journalism.
If the Dead Could Talk
They’s teach us a thing or two about war. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The last two weeks I have been following the route of the American Army’s drive from Normandy into Germany in 1944-5. It is quite something to visit Aachen, Mainz, the Hürtzen forest, Bastogne, Omaha Beach, and Pointe du Hoc, […]
Hedging on Iraq
Which side will Americans choose to be on? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online What exactly do we think is going on in Iraq? The Democratic platform hedges on the war, suggesting that reasonable people can argue over the need for last year’s intervention — as if Dennis Kucinich and Joe Lieberman have only […]