Obama’s New Maiestas
by Victor Davis Hanson Ricochet.com There are a lot of disturbing — and ironic — things about the new Obama effort (AttackWatch.com) to monitor, hunt down, and attack his critics. Share This
A Tale and Taste of Ancient Greece: The End of Sparts Reviewed
Editorial Publishers Weekly Leading classicist Hanson (The Father of Us All) focuses on the Theban defeat of the renowned Spartan army in 371 B.C.E. Share This
The California Corridor: Some Lessons on Government Largesse From the New Frontier
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Great Warpath This summer it has been a softer, modern version of living in a cabin on the Great Warpath circa 1740 near Albany or Montreal (in this regard, take a look at Eliot Cohen’s new book Conquered into Liberty on the origins of the American way of war), readying
Myth and Reality After 9/11
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Why did radical Islamic terrorists kill almost 3,000 Americans a decade ago? Share This
The Other California
by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal In 1973, as I was going through customs in New York after spending the summer bumming around Italy and Greece, the customs agent looked at my passport and said with a Bronx sneer, “Bruce Thornton, huh? Is that one of them Hollywood names?” Share This
Post-9/11 -Isms and -Ologies: A Look Back at a Decade
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Never-ending Day Like millions of Americans, I did not sleep much on the night of September 11. Share This
The Cheney Memoir: Hype and Reality
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I’m about halfway through the new Cheney memoir, In My Time, and it does not at all resemble the media’s description of it — a highly controversial book preoccupied with scoring points against rivals — which suggests that many of those who have written about it have not read it.
What’s Off the Table in 2012?
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services What should we not expect during next summer’s presidential campaign, given what was put off limits in 2008 and later? Share This
God Is Not Dead
A Review of Cornelius Hunter’s trilogy. by Terry Scambray The Chesterton Review Darwin’s God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil (Brazos Press, 2001, 189 pp.) Darwin’s Proof: The Triumph of Religion over Science (Brazos Press, 2003, 168 pp.) Science’s Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism (Brazos Press, 2007, 170 pp.) Share This
Reading Between the Lines
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch When reading Western reports dealing with Islam, one must learn to read between the lines. Many of these reports do state the actual facts; but without providing proper context, Western readers are often left to interpret the information according to their own understandings. Share This