by Victor Davis Hanson The American Enterprise Magazine On matters of national security, Democrats are back on their 1960s barricades. For them, the chief dangers to the United States lie not abroad but at home, within our own government — specifically unaccountable law enforcement, military, and national security establishments. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson The American Enterprise Online War-torn Iraq has about 26 million residents, a peaceful California perhaps now 35 million. The former is a violent and impoverished landscape, the latter said to be paradise on Earth. But how you envision either place to some degree depends on the eye of the beholder and

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Georgia Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s recent run-in with a security official at the nation’s Capitol reminded me of an earlier dust-up. Share This

The Iranian president better sober up and do some cool reckoning. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are now acquainted with the familiar scenario: Iran is supposedly poised to become another disaster like Iraq. The United States, bruised in Iraq, needs redemption, and so will either press onto Teheran in its vainglorious imperial

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Hypocrisy and paradoxes abound when it comes to illegal immigration. Even the fiercest critics of illegal immigrants in the American Southwest never seem to check first the legal status of those who fix their roofs, mow their lawns or wash their dishes. Share This

The backlash on immigration law may be yet to come. by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics [This article appeared as “The Protests — Whose Backlash?” in realclearpolitics.com] Hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens, along with Mexican-Americans and Hispanics in general, hit the streets throughout the United States this past week in one of the largest