Deconstructing Kerry’s Case Against President Bush: Part One
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Now that we’ve heard in two debates the Kerry-Edwards case against President Bush, we should look critically at the Democrats’ position.
The Friday Night Fight
“I Have A Plan”–on and on and on… by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers John Kerry proved tonight that he is a steady, glib, and adept debater who offers a fare of wonkish, comprehensive answers ad nauseam that can awe an off-guard opponent buried beneath facts, Clinton-like instant recall, and classical Ciceronian rhetorical skills. Indeed, we saw all […]
Alexander the Greatest
by Victor Davis Hanson The Times Literary Supplement A review of: Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past by Paul Cartledge (341 pp., Macmillan. £18.99) Alexander: Destiny and Myth by Claude Mossé (244 pp., Edinburgh University Press. £49.99.) Alexander the Conqueror: The Epic Story of the Warrior Kingby Laura Foreman (213 pp., Da Capo. £19.99.) […]
Sizing Up Iraq
Things are coming to a head in the Middle East. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online From the various insurgencies of the Peloponnesian War to the British victory over Communist guerrillas in Malaya, there remain constants across 2,500 years of time and space that presage victory or defeat.
A Shiv in the Back
How politicized college courses mangle education. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers A review of Ben Shapiro’s Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth.
The Perfect Storm of Hating Bush: Part IV
by Victor Davis Hanson This series written for Private Papers will appear in four parts. Part Four Hating Bush, cultural relativism and the war against the terrorists If the new hatred of George Bush is the natural expression of an elite that blurs truth and fiction, word and deed, then anger at a powerful America itself also […]
The Perfect Storm of Hating Bush: Part III
by Victor Davis Hanson This series written for Private Papers will appear in four parts. Part Three The wages of postmodernism, or when facts do not exist, we can invent our own reality Remember the preexisting landscape of postmodern thinking of the last two decades that has dominated the intelligentsia, specifically the Foucauldian notion that there […]
Kerry, Captive
An anatomy of flip-flopping. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There is a logic to Senator Kerry’s flip-flopping that transcends his political opportunism: He is simply a captive of the pulse of the battlefield, without any steady vision or historical sense that might put the carnage of the day into some larger tactical, strategic, or […]
The Perfect Storm of Hating Bush: Part II
by Victor Davis Hanson This is the second of four parts written for Private Papers. Part Two Why the new hysterical hatred? There are a variety of ways to account for this unhinged hatred detailed in “The new candor about killing George Bush.”
Spread Democracy
What to ask John Kerry by Victor Davis Hanson New York Times The New York Times asked a few leading commentators to pose questions to President Bush and Senator Kerry at the first debate on September 30th, 2004.
The Perfect Storm of Hating Bush: Part I
by Victor Davis Hanson This series written for Private Papers will appear in four parts. Part One The new candor about killing George Bush The American Left has become increasingly hysterical since September 11th.
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.