Israel’s Ajax: The Tragedy of Mr. Sharon
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Sophocles once wrote a magnificent play about the Greeks’ greatest fighter at Troy after Achilles — Ajax, as irreplaceable in war as he proved expendable in peace.
The World Upside Down
From the unthinkable to the passe in an instant. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Battle begins to take on a logic of its own, as the world itself does not stop at the sound of gunfire, but in fact goes on — and on, and on each day, peeling off an old layer […]
Its a Mad, Mad World
Let us count the ways by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Palestinian Authority and spokesmen from the Arab world are now advancing a new party line by comparing their own struggle to our American Revolution — with overt associations between the Founding Fathers and Mr. Arafat and his associates!
Wishing War Away?
It’s not as uncommon as we pretend by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Unfortunately, wars are not as rare as lasting periods of peace. More people have perished in conflict since the Second World War than the 60 million who died during that horrific bloodletting.
Do We Want Mexifornia?
The flood of illegal immigration into California raises urgent questions that the whole nation must face. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal Thousands arrive illegally from Mexico into California each year—and the state is now home to fully 40 percent of America’s immigrants, legal and illegal.
Postmoderns Palestine
The new amorality in the Middle East by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There is a postmodern amorality afloat — the dividend of years of an American educational system in which historical ignorance, cultural relativism, and well-intentioned theory, in place of cold facts, has reigned.
The 1930’s, Again
A hard rain is going to fall. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In some ways in our war against the terrorists we are like the democracies of the late 1930s.
Palestine Pretense and Israel Reality
What the world knows, but can’t say, to be true/ by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A common theme throughout classical literature is the role of pretext (prophasis) contrasted with the actual cause of complaint (aitia) — the great divide between what aggrieved people say publicly and what they feel privately.
Questions: Making Sense of the World
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online One of the advantages of living in relative isolation on a farm is the opportunity to ponder idle questions when there are few experts around to give the proper answers.
Listen to the Kuwaitis
What can we learn from the baffling stance of the Kuwaitis? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Kuwait has become a metaphor for the growing divide between the United States and the Islamic world — one that is fundamental and cannot be so easily resolved by shaking hands, holding conferences, and promising to “just […]
What Wins Battles?
Warriors are not always soldiers. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online One of the great trends of the modern world has been a blind faith in the overwhelming power of technology and material wealth.
Why the Muslims Misjudged Us
They hate us because their cultures is backwards and corrupt. by Victor Davis Hanson WSJ Opinion Journal Online Since September 11, we have heard mostly slander and lies about the West from radical Islamic fundamentalists in their defense of the terrorists.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
People seeking handouts use the war as an excuse by Victor Davis Hanson WSJ Opinion Journal Online In times of national crisis we all look to government. It is the one entity that can marshal sufficient forces to protect us from foreign enemies and provide for our domestic safety.
Ferocious Warmakers: How Democracies Win Wars
by Victor Davis Hanson The Claremont Institute The historian Thucydides believed that democracies were the most adept governments at war making.
At War – What Are We Made Of?
The guts to resist evil. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine The United States finally entered the First World War because of the nation’s lingering outrage over a few hundred floating bodies from the sunken ocean liner Lusitania, which was torpedoed during Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare.
The Meaning of Tet
1968 Tet Offensive, Vietnam War by Victor Davis Hanson American Heritage A historian argues that in Vietnam America’s cause was just, its arms effective, and its efforts undermined by critics back home — and that this is how things must work in a free society.
Five-Star Peacock
A Review of MacArthur’s War by Victor Davis Hanson National Review MacArthur’s War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero, by Stanley Weintraub (Free Press, 375 pp., $27.50)
Democracy Without Farmers
by Victor Davis Hanson The Wilson Quarterly The family farm in America has all but vanished, and with it we are losing centuries of social and civic wisdom imparted by the agrarian life.
Tall Tales from The Family Farm
Farming not the serene, simple life that most outsiders think by Victor Davis Hanson Heritage Foundation “He sees not that sea of trouble, of labour, and expense which have been lavished on this farm. He forgets the fortitude, and the regrets.” -J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America
Sherman’s War
by Victor Davis Hanson American Heritage The General’s March through Georgia is usually remembered as a ruthless campaign of indiscriminate terror, waged against helpless civilians rather than southern soldiers. But Victor Davis Hanson argues that it was brillant, effective, and, above all, humble.