If the Dead Could Talk

They’d teach us a thing or two about war. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The last two weeks I have been following the route of the American Army’s drive from Normandy into Germany in 1944-5. Share This

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Embedded and Elitist Left

The Long March through Schools of Journalism by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers If you want a good example of the “long march through the institutions” undertaken by sixties leftists after they left school, look no further than the career of Orville Schell, dean of Berkeley’s School of Journalism. Share This

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If the Dead Could Talk

They’s teach us a thing or two about war. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The last two weeks I have been following the route of the American Army’s drive from Normandy into Germany in 1944-5. It is quite something to visit Aachen, Mainz, the Hürtzen forest, Bastogne, Omaha Beach, and Pointe du Hoc,

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Hedging on Iraq

Which side will Americans choose to be on? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online What exactly do we think is going on in Iraq? The Democratic platform hedges on the war, suggesting that reasonable people can argue over the need for last year’s intervention — as if Dennis Kucinich and Joe Lieberman have only

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Civilization vs. Trivia

Sometimes life’s choices are simple. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Last week, the carnivore Saddam Hussein faced the world in the docket. There was none of the usual Middle East barbarity. The mass murderer was not hooded and then beheaded on tape, in the manner of al Qaeda. Civilization has come to Iraq.

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Another 9/11?

The awful response that we dare not speak about by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Almost daily we are assured that another attack on the homeland, commensurate with 9/11, is inevitable. What a scary mood of fatalism we are in! Where will it happen? The Olympics? The party conventions this summer? A week before

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