by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services America was created by rural people. Perhaps 95 percent of its first citizens were farmers when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Now, despite all the talk of a “rural renaissance,” less than 1 percent are—even as we are awash in food and next year will become […]

by Victor Davis Hanson Los Angeles Times The British Seaborne Empire by Jeremy Black (Yale University Press: 420 pp.) To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World by Arthur Herman (HarperCollins: 648 pp.) Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I know that things are going pretty well in America’s efforts in the Middle East when Fareed Zakaria, who was a sharp critic over the last two years, now assures us that events are working out in Iraq — just about, he tells us, like he saw all along.

But who will teach the teachers? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine It recently came to light that University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill had slandered some of the 9/11 victims as “Little Eichmanns,” who may well have deserved punishment for their participation in what went on “in the sterile sanctuary of the twin

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Even in the face of spreading reform in the Middle East, Americans remain divided over the wisdom of removing Saddam Hussein and then staying on to foster democracy in Iraq. But petroleum should not be part of that controversy. Nevertheless, the most persistent smear of this war has

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Bush supposedly charmed the Europeans, and now they purportedly don’t hate us any more. Share This

Private Papers More than three years after September 11 and more than a year and a half after liberation of Iraq, how do you see the progress of the war on terror? Share This