War and the West, Then and Now: Part II
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers This is a transcript of a recorded talk of about 50 minutes before an audience on February 11, 2004 at the University of Oregon.
War and the West, Then and Now: Part I
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers This is a transcript of a recorded talk of about 50 minutes before an audience on February 11, 2004 at the University of Oregon.
Elegant Nonsense
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Nearly 24 centuries ago, Plato warned not to confuse innate artistic skill with either education or intelligence.
Our Wars Over the War
“The fault is not in our stars.” by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Ever since September 11, there has been an alternative narrative about this war embraced by the Left. In this mythology, the attack on September 11 had in some vague way something to do with American culpability.
Dishonest and Deadly
Why does the West entertain such a wrongheaded notion as multiculturalism? by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The news that the London terrorist attacks were carried out by second-generation Muslim immigrants should not surprise us.
A World Wonder: A Speech Given to the Woodrow Wilson Center on Democracy
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Part III: Question and Answer MR. SITILIDES: Thank you very much, Dr. Hanson. We appreciate the historical sweep of your presentation.
The Iraqi Wars
Our 15-year conflict with Iraq. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Iraq is a blur now. Everyone from Norman Schwarzkopf and General Zinni to Tommy Franks and General Abezaid is mixed up in our memories. The public can’t quite separate Baathists from jihadists, Shiite from Sunni, or one coalition from another. Mostly the confusion […]
How to Lose a War
by Victor Davis Hanson National Post Thursday’s attack in London is the latest blow struck in the war that began on Sept. 11. Its origins are easy to fathom: A minority of Muslim extremists, their numbers in the few millions, resents deeply the erosion of life in the Middle East and other Muslim areas.
Jihad Is Knocking: Another Episode in the War between Christendom and Islam
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The slaughter in London is another grisly wake-up call that likely will go as unheeded as earlier ones.
The Same Old, Same Old . . .
An anatomy of the London bombing. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The British may react very differently than the Spanish did after Madrid — by doing nothing rather than by retreating from Iraq.
A World Wonder: Part II
A Speech Given to the Woodrow Wilson Center on Democracy by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Part II: Spreading Democracy in the Modern World
A World Wonder: Part I
A Speech Given to the Woodrow Wilson Center on Democracy by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers This is a written transcript of recorded remarks given on June 2, 2005 at the Woodrow Wilson Center and made available to Private Papers by the Center.Click here to read an introduction by John Sitilides, Chairman, Board of Advisors, Southeast Europe Project Wilson Council. […]
Real Lesson of Vietnam
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Under fire, the president addressed the nation Tuesday night to reassure the American people that, for all the depressing news of bombings and death, we are winning the war and a free, democratic Iraq is key to Middle East salvation.
American Zen
Finessing our supposed friends and enemies. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online While the world debated whether an American guard at Guantanamo really flushed a Koran down a toilet, Robert Mugabe may have bulldozed the homes of 1.5 million Zimbabweans.
Korea: Our Bad and Worse Choices
by Victor Davis Hanson American Enterprise Institute Magazine The North Korean crisis offers only bad and worse choices for the United States. Kim Jong Il cultivates an air of lunacy, and threatens to nuke the Western critics who are more concerned with the plight of his North Korean people than he is.
Hitler, Hitler, Everwhere
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was not alone when he recently compared American behavior at Guantanamo Bay to that of “Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime – Pol Pot or others – that had no concern for human beings.”
The Politics of American Wars
How fascists became the “victims” in the current war. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For all the talk of imperial America, and our frequent “police actions,” we are hardly militarists. Protected by two-oceans, and founded on the principles of non-interference in Europe’s bloody internecine wars, the United States has always been rightly circumspect […]
Are They in the Army Now?
Cries of shortfall, exhaustion, and overstretch by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine Figures on U.S. military recruitment just released for 2005 show that the Army missed its monthly announced goal, achieving only 75 percent of its anticipated enlistments for this May.
Liberating the Power of Truth
A Review of Brian C. Anderson’s South Park Conservatives: The Revolt of the Liberal Media Bias. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers In the sixties, many of us were pulled to the left because we thought it was the ideology of liberty.
Profiles in Diversity
by Victor Davis Hanson The Claremont Institute Whether or not you agreed with them, university presidents used to be dignified figures on the American scene.