History’s Verdict: The Summer of 1944 and 2004
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online About this time 60 years ago, six weeks after the Normandy beach landings, Americans were dying in droves in France.
Allies, Friends, Neutrals, or Enemies?
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers For all the mayhem in the Sunni Triangle, and for all our mishaps at trying to reconstruct a pathological society reeling from 30 years of mass murder, we are now seeing the emergence of new civilized beginnings in Iraq.
The Ayatollah of Anti-Americanism
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The Anti-Chomsky Reader, ed. by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Encounter Books)
Civilization vs. Trivia
Sometimes life’s choices are simple. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Last week, the carnivore Saddam Hussein faced the world in the docket. There was none of the usual Middle East barbarity. The mass murderer was not hooded and then beheaded on tape, in the manner of al Qaeda. Civilization has come to Iraq.
Another 9/11?
The awful response that we dare not speak about by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Almost daily we are assured that another attack on the homeland, commensurate with 9/11, is inevitable. What a scary mood of fatalism we are in! Where will it happen? The Olympics? The party conventions this summer? A week before […]
The Moral Choice: What America Needs to Defend Democracy
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The next half-year will see some of the most critical months in American history.
Fantasyland
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers We live in an upside-down civilization of hit Michael Moore conspiracy films, of novels about how to kill a sitting President of the United States, of elite American newsmen ridiculing brave Iraq democrats, and of allied peoples abroad who tell pollsters that they prefer beheaders and fascists to win […]
Fantasyland
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers We live in an upside-down civilization of hit Michael Moore conspiracy films, of novels about how to kill a sitting President of the United States, of elite American newsmen ridiculing brave Iraq democrats, and of allied peoples abroad who tell pollsters that they prefer beheaders and fascists to win […]
High Noon on June 30?
by Victor Davis Hanson The Oregonian Pessimism surrounds the proposed June 30th transfer from the American-led coalition authority to the Iraqi interim government. Critics, left and right, fear that we are ram-rodding democracy down the throats of Iraqis.
The Psychological Effect
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online RONALD REAGAN’S legacy is not one of ideological purity. He raised taxes and signed liberal abortion legislation in California. Despite his “evil empire” speech, he was not the preeminent Cold Warrior: Truman and Eisenhower had both fashioned the policy of containment and deterrence.
A Reagan for Everybody
Who exactly was Ronald Reagan? by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers One of the strangest developments following the recent funeral of Ronald Reagan was the emergence of all sorts of “authentic” — and irreconcilable—Reagans.
Do We Really Need More Troops In Iraq?
by Victor Davis Hanson (A later version of this essay appears in the current issue ofCommentary Magazine.) How many American troops should be posted in Iraq, beyond the present spike of 135,000—a number that was itself raised from the informally agreed-upon level of 115,000?
Elastic Definitions of Sexual Harassment
The high costs to free speech of vague legal terms and frivolous cases. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Even as the civil liberties fundamentalists continue to fret over the Patriot Act and the treatment of terrorists in our custody, a more insidious and dangerous assault on our freedom, one that has been going on […]
Let Europe Be Europe
America should give up on the shattered Atlantic Alliance. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Beware of punditry now assuring us that, because we have seen the error of our ways and are now penitent, Europe is back on board. A contrite Mr. Bush — his critics imply — now seeks to smile more […]
Ronald Reagan: What We’ve Forgotten
A shorter version of this essay appeared in a Reagan commemorative issue of National Review Magazine. by Victor Davis Hanson There will be a great deal of blanket praise written about Ronald Reagan in the next few days. Yet I don’t think his legacy will be judged by his unwavering ideological purity.
The Look Back
Why are we split over the war since 9/11? by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Two views are emerging about our post-September-11 world. One is angry, but also therapeutic—and most often embraced by the Left. I think it goes roughly like this. Removing the Taliban in our initial rage might have for a moment seemed […]
Feeding the Minotaur
Our strange relationship with the terrorists continues. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online As long as the mythical Athenians were willing to send, every nine years, seven maidens and seven young men down to King Minos’s monster in the labyrinth, Athens was left alone by the Cretan fleet. The king rightly figured that harvesting […]
Reagan’s Second Act
Media concedes simple truth, not simpleton by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Ronald Reagan’s death in the midst of a hotly contested presidential election has occasioned all manner of oddities.
Rural Greece Under the Democracy
by Victor Davis Hanson Times Literary Supplement Rural Greece Under the Democracy by Nicholas F. Jones Pennsylvania, 2004. xii + 330 $59.95 A version of this review appears in the June 25, 2004 issue of the Times Literary Supplement.
Our Look Back at Normandy
What our generation might have said a month later in July, 1944 by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Al Gore: General George Marshall—You, you…. You, go now! You approved of it; you signed off; you gave us the Philippines disaster, the B-17 slaughters, and now this. So go! Go, go, now!