by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Our society suffers from the tyranny of the present. Presentism is the strange affliction of assuming that all our good things were created by ourselves — as if those without our technology who came before us lacked our superior knowledge and morality. Share This
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When will the Dems start winning again? When they start living and speaking like normal folks. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are in unsure times amid a controversial war. Yet the American people are not swayed by the universities, the major networks, the New York Times, Hollywood, the major foundations, and NPR. Share
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by Victor Davis Hanson Commentary Magazine On March 14, at about the same time Western antiwar groups were organizing their annual spring demonstrations against American efforts in the Middle East, nearly a million Lebanese, including Sunni Muslims, Druze, and Christians, took to the streets of Beirut. Share This
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New book challenges “enlightened” notion of evil. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Review of Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terrorby Os Guinness (Harper, 2005, 242 pp). Share This
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Vote on Bolton’s experience and qualifications if you can. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The marathon confirmation hearings of John Bolton to be the American ambassador to the United Nations have become pathetic. Bolton is supposedly discourteous to subordinates. He was a hands-on-his-hips boss! Heaven forbid, he sometimes bellowed. Share This
Senators Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn’t . . . Read More »
The new not-so-unwelcome anti-Americanism by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Last year the hysteria about the hostility toward the United States reached a fevered pitch. Everyone from Jimmy Carter to our Hollywood elite lamented that America had lost its old popularity. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services For more than a century, European intellectuals have predicted the decline of the United States. The German philosophers Hegel, Nietzsche and Spengler saw Western democracy and capitalism as pernicious — the unfortunate wages of a classical civilization that had lavished upon natural man too much wealth and indulgence.
Look and Listen: Talk of U.S. Decline is Premature Read More »
Self-flattering, self-deluded–almost desperate by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Will the second Bush administration be less bellicose, more multilateral? That’s what some of the president’s critics are suggesting, after his much-publicized visit to Europe. Share This
Come the Revisionists Read More »
A review of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (Viking, 592 pp., $29.95). Share This
But don’t forget the rules of the strange conflict! by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online If we look back at the war that started on September 11, there have emerged some general rules that should guide us in the next treacherous round of the struggle against Islamic fascism, the autocracies that aid and abet