The doors are open for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but closed for Larry Summers by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal Many observers noted that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Columbia University took place at about the same time that the University of California at Davis canceled a speaking appearance by former Harvard president Lawrence Summers, […]
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I was once more under-whelmed by Mr. Bateman’s fourth and final attack on Carnage and Culture. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media And on and on and on and on from the increasingly unhinged LTC Bateman…. Share This
Adaptability, self-critique, and persistance will prevail. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The war in Iraq — as all wars — is fraught with savage ironies. In the build-up to the invasion, anti-Americanism in Europe reached a near frenzy. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services There’s an old expression about war: “Victory has many fathers, while defeat is an orphan.” But in the case of Iraq, it seems the other way around. We’ve blamed many for the ordeal of the last four years, but it is the American victory in Anbar province that
A Comparison of The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online A number of book reviewers have recently pointed to the similarities between The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf. For instance, writing in the New York Observer, James Buchan notes that, “In their [al Qaeda’s] brutality and candor, their fulminations against democracy and loose morals, their obsession
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A civilization is won or lost by those who fight to protect it — and judged as deserving by the gratitude offered to its soldiers by those who were saved. Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that there are now Americans in battle in the tradition of 1776, 1864, 1918,
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Oil is nearly $100 a barrel. Gas may soon reach $4 a gallon. And Americans are being bitten in almost every way imaginable by this insidious oil hydra. Share This
Stick with principles–not personalities by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I don’t think many Americans would argue that the answer for the sometimes lethargic, elected Karzai government in Afghanistan should be a coup by a Pashtun warlord and his battle-hardened lieutenants. Share This
The assault on skilled, independent, intelligent blacks by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers When Barack Obama accused Hillary Clinton of “playing the gender card,” the hypocrisy that typically defines our public discourse on race descended into the surreal. Share This