A Tale of Two Surges
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services From 2007 to 2009, a surge of 20,000 troops under the generalship of David Petraeus saved a mostly lost war in Iraq. Share This
A Eulogy for “Selective Death”
by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review A review of What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 179 pp.) Share This
Ancient Virtues and Modern Sins
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Candor Aside from courage — the essential trait without which, as the ancients insisted, all other virtues are impossible — candor is now the most appreciated. Share This
Obama 101
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the last three years, the president has taught us a great deal about America, the world, and himself. Share This
Romney: The Castor-Oil Candidate
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Nominating Mitt Romney is sort of like taking Grandma’s castor oil. Republicans are dreading the thought of downing their unpleasant-tasting medicine but worry that sooner or later they will have to. Share This
Grand Mufti Distorts Word ‘Infidel’ to Dupe Infidels
by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Soon after reporting that Egypt’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Ali Gomaa, had pronounced all Christians “infidels,” I received several emails forwarding what looked like a response from Gomaa. Some websites — such as the ever-hysterical “American Muslim” — published it, providing the following additional information: Share This
Why Not Pay Higher Taxes?
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The usual liberal complaint against the conservative opposition to higher income taxes is greed and the better-offs’ self-serving reluctance to pay their “fair share.” Share This
Moral Equivalence Is Moral Evasion
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The failure of the Congressional budget “super-committee” to address our geometrically expanding debt and deficits should surprise no one. Share This
Obama’s Economic Quackery
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Sometimes the wrong medicine can make a struggling patient far sicker than he would have been had he been allowed to recover naturally. Western medicine began with the premise that the physician either must know how to cure the patient or simply leave him alone — but above
The Arab Winter Approaches
by Bruce S. Thornton Defining Ideas The revolutions against Arab autocracies — dubbed the “Arab Spring” — have been greeted in America with bipartisan celebration. Share This