Sexual Harassment or Censorship?

Vague language in Executive Order 927 leaves one to wonder who might harass whom. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Even as the ACLU frets over the privacy of people chatting with Al Qaeda on their cell phones or googling bomb-making instructions on public library computers, a more serious threat to civil liberties and personal

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Fantasy and Worse from the Los Angeles Times

by Bruce S. Thornton and Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers [Editor’s Note: In the Sunday February 5, 2006 edition of the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Fresno-based Times reporter Mark Arax published an essay purportedly about how acrimony over 9/11 issues, Iraq, and the war on terror has divided his community “The Valley’s Not So Civil War”. In fact, the piece

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Bad Taste and Freedom

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Sparks sure fly when the premodern world of religious piety and the postmodern world of Monty Python collide. Middle Eastern Muslims have demonstrated, threatened, boycotted and burned in their fury over European newspapers republishing months-old distasteful cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Share This

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Losing Civilization

Are we going to tolerate the downfall of Western ideals? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The great wealth and leisure created by modern technology have confused some in the modern age into thinking that history is linear. Share This

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Three Pillars of Wisdom

Finding our footing where lunacy looms large. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Public relations between the so-called West and the Islamic Middle East have reached a level of abject absurdity. Share This

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Deconstructing Bin Laden

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We don’t know whether the latest and much-discussed Osama bin Laden tape was recorded recently. But the harangue is still a valuable reflection of the current al Qaeda hierarchy that broadcast it to the world. Share This

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