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.
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.