The Subtexts of War
Culture, oil, and reckless dissent. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Throughout this war there are various truths generally recognized, but rarely voiced. Share This
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Scapegoating Guantanamo
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When President Bush arrived in Vienna last week, protestors bore “World’s No. 1 Terrorist” signs while chanting “We will, we will fight Bush.” A Harris Poll conducted prior to the president’s visit revealed that the European public thinks America is a greater global threat than either North Korea or Iran. Share This
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New World, Old Myths
A review of Charles C. Mann’s 1941: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Bruce S. Thornton Claremont Review of Books From the first moment of contact, Europeans viewed the American Indians through various mythic lenses. Share This
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Winning the Iraq Wars
All of its many fronts. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The present fighting is part of a fourth war for Iraq : Gulf War I, the twelve years of no-fly zones, the three-week war in 2003, and now the three-year-old insurrection that followed the removal of Saddam Hussein. Share This
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A Summer Reflection on Why America Works
by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics I was at a crowded central Sierra Nevada lake last weekend. The recreation scene there was a good example of how well the United States works as a cohesive society despite radically different public tastes. Share This
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Why the Democrats May Lose the 2008 Election
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Will President Bush’s current unpopularity translate into a Democratic recapture of either the House or Senate this fall — or a victory in the 2008 presidential election? Share This
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Despair and Hope
The short and long wars against radical Islam by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the short-term, the ongoing war with Islamic fascists from Afghanistan toIraq , and in peripheral areas from Canada and Manhattan to Madrid , Bali, andLondon , seems surreal. Share This
Huck Finn and the Nuremberg Rally
by Bruce S. Thornton The New Individualist Some of the most frightening images from Nazi Germany can be seen in Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, the cinematic record of the 1934 week-long party rally held in Nuremberg . Share This
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The West’s Multi-Headed Monster
Placing Zarqawi’s death in perspective by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers Immediately after the announcement of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s death — Osama bin Laden’s “prince of al-Qaeda in Iraq” — almost every major politician, including President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, and Iraq’s new Prime Minister Maliki gave some sort of victory speech, some highly triumphant,
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Socrates on Illegal Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After Socrates was convicted by a court of questionable charges, his friends planned to break him out of his jail in Athens. But the philosopher refused to flee. Instead, he insisted that a citizen who lived in a consensual society should not pick and choose which laws he
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