by Victor Davis Hanson The Claremont Institute The historian Thucydides believed that democracies were the most adept governments at war making. Share This
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The guts to resist evil. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine The United States finally entered the First World War because of the nation’s lingering outrage over a few hundred floating bodies from the sunken ocean liner Lusitania, which was torpedoed during Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare. Share This
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1968 Tet Offensive, Vietnam War by Victor Davis Hanson American Heritage A historian argues that in Vietnam America’s cause was just, its arms effective, and its efforts undermined by critics back home — and that this is how things must work in a free society. Share This
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A Review of MacArthur’s War by Victor Davis Hanson National Review MacArthur’s War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero, by Stanley Weintraub (Free Press, 375 pp., $27.50) Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson The Wilson Quarterly The family farm in America has all but vanished, and with it we are losing centuries of social and civic wisdom imparted by the agrarian life. Share This
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Farming not the serene, simple life that most outsiders think by Victor Davis Hanson Heritage Foundation “He sees not that sea of trouble, of labour, and expense which have been lavished on this farm. He forgets the fortitude, and the regrets.” -J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson American Heritage The General’s March through Georgia is usually remembered as a ruthless campaign of indiscriminate terror, waged against helpless civilians rather than southern soldiers. But Victor Davis Hanson argues that it was brillant, effective, and, above all, humble. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Journal of Interdisciplinary History Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece. By David W. Tandy (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1997) 296 pp. $45.00 Share This
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(Two differing opinions) Pat Roberts; Victor Davis Hanson News World Communications Abstract: The Republican Chmn of the House Agriculture Committee is sanguine about the direction farm policy is taking, but a fifth-generation farmer believes that the new law favors big agribusiness and hurts family farmers. Subsidies and federal payments are discussed. Share This
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