Remembering World War II: Revisionists Get It Wrong
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online As the world commemorated the 60th anniversary of the end of the European Theater of World War II, revisionism was the norm. In the last few years, new books and articles have argued for a complete rethinking of the war. The only consistent theme in this various second-guessing […]
What Happened to History?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Our society suffers from the tyranny of the present. Presentism is the strange affliction of assuming that all our good things were created by ourselves — as if those without our technology who came before us lacked our superior knowledge and morality.
Democratic Suicide
When will the Dems start winning again? When they start living and speaking like normal folks. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are in unsure times amid a controversial war. Yet the American people are not swayed by the universities, the major networks, the New York Times, Hollywood, the major foundations, and NPR.
The Bush Doctrine’s Next Test
by Victor Davis Hanson Commentary Magazine On March 14, at about the same time Western antiwar groups were organizing their annual spring demonstrations against American efforts in the Middle East, nearly a million Lebanese, including Sunni Muslims, Druze, and Christians, took to the streets of Beirut.
Lost Without Faith
New book challenges “enlightened” notion of evil. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Review of Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terrorby Os Guinness (Harper, 2005, 242 pp).
Senators Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn’t . . .
Vote on Bolton’s experience and qualifications if you can. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The marathon confirmation hearings of John Bolton to be the American ambassador to the United Nations have become pathetic. Bolton is supposedly discourteous to subordinates. He was a hands-on-his-hips boss! Heaven forbid, he sometimes bellowed.
On Being Disliked
The new not-so-unwelcome anti-Americanism by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Last year the hysteria about the hostility toward the United States reached a fevered pitch. Everyone from Jimmy Carter to our Hollywood elite lamented that America had lost its old popularity.
Look and Listen: Talk of U.S. Decline is Premature
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services For more than a century, European intellectuals have predicted the decline of the United States. The German philosophers Hegel, Nietzsche and Spengler saw Western democracy and capitalism as pernicious — the unfortunate wages of a classical civilization that had lavished upon natural man too much wealth and indulgence.
Come the Revisionists
Self-flattering, self-deluded–almost desperate by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Will the second Bush administration be less bellicose, more multilateral? That’s what some of the president’s critics are suggesting, after his much-publicized visit to Europe.
Decline And Fall
A review of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (Viking, 592 pp., $29.95).
Winning the War
But don’t forget the rules of the strange conflict! by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online If we look back at the war that started on September 11, there have emerged some general rules that should guide us in the next treacherous round of the struggle against Islamic fascism, the autocracies that aid and abet […]
A Pope for All Seasons
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services During the papal interregnum, divided Catholics await the new Holy Father to guide them in their third millennium, in which clergy in Roman-era headdresses send press releases via e-mail.
‘Something Is Terribly, Terribly Wrong’
On the “seeming insanity” of U.S. immigration and assimilation practices Interview by Marvin Olasky World Magazine Marvin Olasky interviewed Victor Davis Hanson for World Magazine. WORLD’S INTRODUCTION: If you can only read one book on the immigration issue, read Mexifornia (Encounter Books, 2003), which author Victor Davis Hanson accurately describes as “part melancholy remembrance of a world gone by, […]
Our Not-So-Wise Experts
A litany of past failure by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Brent Scowcroft predicted on the eve of the Iraqi elections that voting there would increase the risk of civil war. Indeed, he foresaw “a great potential for deepening the conflict.” He also once assured us that Iraq “could become a Vietnam in a […]
Victor Davis Hanson “Live” with TAE
Hanson comments on topics from the Iraqi war to decline of the West The American Enterprise Professor Hanson was interviewed for TAE by Los Angeles journalist David Isaac.
Move the U.N.?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Americans grew up with kind feelings toward the United Nations. Many remain nostalgic about their childhood UNESCO Halloween buckets and UNICEF Christmas cards. Such goodwill explains why we host the organization and cover a quarter of its operating budget.
A Smoking Gun at Columbia University
A new saga in the assault on academic freedom unravels by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers If you’ve ever wondered how American universities can continue to allow political advocacy and indoctrination to flourish in their classrooms, consider the recent controversy over Columbia University’s department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC).
The Bush Dilemma
If the president is willing to take risks abroad, why won’t he do it at home? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Recent developments in the Middle East — whether democratic unrest in Lebanon, Syrian vows to keep within its own borders, promises of elections in Egypt, or Sunni clerics’ professions that they may […]
Remembering Okinawa
Dealing with suicide bombers–60 years ago by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Sixty years ago, the United States military invaded Okinawa on April 1, 1945, the last bastion of the Japanese maritime empire that stood in the way of an assault on the mainland.
Spiritual Parasites
Couldn’t evil be explained by choice? by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The commentary on the recent murder of 9 people by a teen-aged gunman at a Minnesota Indian reservation school tells us as much about our cultural dysfunctions as do the killings themselves.