Not Over Yet
Reasons for hope on the first Tuesday in November. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Of course, this is a Democratic year. The public is tired of George Bush and eight years of an incumbent administration. Share This
What Is Wisdom?
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There is a report today (I think first offered in the Huffington Post) that David Brooks, the gifted New York Times columnist, has described Sarah Palin as a “fatal cancer” and part of a larger pernicious conservative trend: Share This
Osama bin Laden: Man of Love?
by Raymond Ibrahim MESH (Middle East Strategy at Harvard) In many ways, Michael Scheuer is the paradigmatic case of an otherwise knowledgeable and experienced Western adult who takes al Qaeda’s word at face value. Share This
Iraq, Round Three
by Victor Davis Hanson Policy Review A review of Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New ‘Greatest Generation’ of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope by Michael Yon and Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search For a Way Out of Iraq by Linda Robinson. Share This
America’s Nervous Breakdown–and The World’s
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Ancient thinkers from Thucydides to Cicero insisted that money was the real source of military power and national influence. We’ve been reminded of that classical wisdom these last three weeks. Share This
What Al Qaeda Wants: A Debate with Michael Scheuer
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch I recently wrote something of a lengthy exposition regarding ex CIA analyst Michael Scheuer’s continuous characterizations of Osama bin Laden as at once Robin Hood, Saint Francis of Assisi, and Thomas Jefferson — that is, a man fighting oppression and tyranny, that and nothing more. Share This
No We Can’t
The Democratic left wing has been determined to lose America’s wars. by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal Review of Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America’s War on Terror Before and After 9-11, by David Horowitz and Ben Johnson (Spence, 224 pp.) Share This
VDH UltraAngry Reader: Germany is Better, VDH!
Private Papers Dear Julian, I reply to your letter in bold print after each paragraph. VDH Share This
Today in History
Constantinople saves Western Civilization from Islam by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Since certain Muslim media are fond of rehashing old history, reminding Muslims of the “atrocities” committed by the hated Crusader — past and present — it seems only logical that we here in the West also remember the past. Share This
Islam Without Apologetics
Andrew Bostom documents the long history of Muslim anti-Semitism. by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal A review of The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History, by Andrew G. Bostom (Prometheus Books, 766 pp.) Share This