So Far, So Good?
Where are all the purported American blunders? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It is hard to fathom why the United States has been the subject of such vituperation from Europe and the purported moderate Middle Eastern states. September 11 marked the worst attack on American home soil in the nation’s entire history — […]
Soldiers of Contrasts
Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life by Carlo D’Este (Henry Holt, 672 pp., $35) by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine Carlo D’Este, a well-respected historian of the U.S. Army’s battles in Europe during World War II and the author of an engaging and sympathetic biography of Gen. George S. Patton, has now written a massive narrative of […]
Flunking With Flying Colors: Failing the Moral Test of Our Times
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Middle East crisis offers the world an ethical litmus test for our generation in a variety of historic ways.
The Parable of the Weed
Attacking terrorism at its roots. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online My grandfather, a lifelong viticulturalist, used to sigh that the great plague of his life — besides banks, shippers, and packers — was johnsongrass (holcus halepensis).
European Morality?
We should look at what our alies do rather than say. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The United States once again is at odds with Europe and our closest allies.
A Royal Pain
With friends like the Saudia, who needs enemies? by Victor Davis Hanson WSJ Opinion Journal Online Even if we were not attempting to prosecute a war against terror, the time would have long since arrived to reconsider our relations with Saudi Arabia.
A Ray of Arab Candor
A U.N. report by Middle-Eastern intellectuals blames Arab culture and Arab tyranny for Arab problems. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal The just-released Arab Human Development Report, commissioned by the United Nations and drafted by a group of Middle Eastern intellectuals, utterly confirms the deep pathology gripping the Arab world that Western analysts have long noted.
Our Enemies, the Saudis
United States relations with Saudi Arabia by Victor Davis Hanson American Jewish Committee Even if we were not attempting to prosecute a war against terror, the time would have long since arrived to reconsider our relations with Saudi Arabia.
Fortress Israel?
Something there than doesn’t love a wall. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Bush’s speech outlined well enough the general parameters of peace — Israeli security, a new democratic government in Palestine without Mr. Arafat, return of most of the West Bank et al.
A New Tone For New Times
The language of democratic confidence, not fear of terrorism, is needed by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Top officials of our government warn that another terrorist attack of the magnitude of September 11 is “inevitable” and “is coming” in the near future.
From Jenin to Kashmir: The Hypocrisy of the World’s Attention
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For most of April and early May, the world’s attention was glued on Jenin as the Israeli Defense Forces sent an armored column and accompanying infantrymen to root out suspected terrorists and their apparatus of suicide bombing.
The Civic Education America Needs
September 11 reminded us that this country is exceptional. How to we teach that to our kids? by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal All countries seek to inculcate their youth with values that reflect and enhance their national culture—sometimes with horrific results, such as the goose-stepping Hitler Youth or head-nodding madrassas in the Middle East.
History Calling
A Review of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren Oxford. 419 pp. $30.00
Short-Term Pain & Long-Term Gain
Why the war on terror is not the Cold War. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For much of the 1990s the autocrats of the former Yugoslavia seized control of the fragmenting country and initiated an ethnically inspired bloodbath.
A Ring
A Memorial Day tale about a few very good men. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Yesterday, our rural mail carrier delivered to our farm a ring in a small box — of worn metal, its band cut in half, with a strange signet inset of a Roman legionary.
At the Bottom of Pandora’s Box
A glimmer of hope along the Kabul/Palestine/Baghdad Axis. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the Greek myth of Pandora’s Box, after the naïve young girl (named “All the Gifts”) opens the forbidden lid, and a host of evils flies out to plague the world — hope alone is left behind to counterbalance the […]
Occidentalism: The False West
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online American professors have long lectured to our students about purported Western biases and cruel misconceptions toward the “Other.”
War Will Be War
No matter the era, no mater the weapons, the same old hell. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine War is eternal. It is part of the human condition; it is, as Heraclitus wrote, “the father of us all.”
A Tour of the Front
The landscape of the current war is especially bleak. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Since 9/11 there continues to come a swirl of bizarre images of this conflict — military, political, and cultural. In their aggregate, these symbols finally overwhelm the senses and lead to a profound sense of despair — if also […]
The New Fascism
Frightening extremist rhetoric from America’s critics. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Watching televised clips from a recent pro-Palestinian rally in Washington, along with other such demonstrations over the last few weeks, can be a chilling experience.